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Product Development Manager Mobile Apps

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Job Location:

Leicester - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 22 August 2026 (15 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 19 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description
The Role:

As a Product Delivery Manager (PDM) within our Mobile Apps Product group you will work with a dedicated development squad to drive the delivery of our customer-facing mobile applications. Our Online Shopping apps are at the heart of our business driving over 50% of our online trade across 70 international markets and serving millions of active customers with a highly personalised shopping experience.

What Youll Take On:

In this role you will drive end-to-end delivery ensuring our mobile applications provide exceptional value to our customers and the business. Your daily responsibilities will include:

  • Team Management & Leadership: Guide a cross-functional team of iOS/Android developers and QA engineers by setting clear sprint goals managing resource allocation and fostering a collaborative proactive environment.
  • Stakeholder Partnership: Act as the primary delivery partner for Product Owners UX designers and eCommerce leadership. You will translate technical complexitiessuch as architectural foundations RESTful API integrations and deep-linkinginto clear actionable business decisions.
  • Agile Governance & Delivery: Manage project budgets document dependencies and proactively mitigate release risks to ensure smooth deployment pipelines. You will champion the delivery of high-quality MVP software in a fast-paced retail environment .
  • Product Health & Excellence: Embed the engineering philosophy of We build it We release it We own it. Work with the team to ensure robust quality gates are metincluding automated unit testing CI/CD pipelines and strict performance and observability standards.
What Youll Bring:

We are looking for a sharp detail-oriented delivery professional who thrives in a fast-paced multi-team environment.

Essential Experience & Skills:
  • IT Project Management: Proven experience driving software delivery ideally managing enterprise-level customer-facing mobile applications.
  • Mobile Ecosystem Familiarity: An understanding of native Mobile App ecosystems like Xcode IDE and modern frameworks like SwiftUI.
  • Agile Expertise: A solid grasp of core Agile principles (Scrum/Kanban) with experience managing backlogs and reporting project status via ADO or Jira.
  • Communication & Facilitation: The ability to make complex mobile architectures sound simple whether you are collaborating with an iOS Lead Engineer or presenting delivery timelines to non-technical senior leadership.
  • Collaborative Problem Solving: A proactive approach to teamwork showing resilience during peak seasonal retail periods and always bringing potential solutions to technical bottlenecks.
Desirable Skills (Nice to Have):
  • CI/CD & Automation: Experience working with Git ADO pipelines and automated mobile testing frameworks (XCTest).
  • Accessibility & Deep-linking: A passion for inclusive design including familiarity with Apples Accessibility Framework and an understanding of universal links or custom URLs.
  • Cross-Platform Awareness: Knowledge of Android development using Kotlin/Compose is advantageous.
  • AI & Emerging Tech: Knowledge of emerging AI innovations such as on-device model execution or practical experience using AI tools to assist in translating mobile features written in Xcode/Swift to Kotlin/Compose (or vice-versa).

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Required Experience:

Manager


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You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possib ... View more

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