Senior Product Manager – Value Realization & Portfolio Strategy

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Job Title: Senior Product Manager – Value Realization & Portfolio Strategy

Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom or Europe (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-time

The job

We are seeking a strategic and customer-centric Senior Product Manager – Value Realization & Portfolio Strategy to shape the vision and direction of AVEVA’s next-generation cloud authoring services. You will play a pivotal role in defining how customers gain value from our cloud-native data services, enabling seamless authoring, integration, and lifecycle management of Digital Twin data across projects and operations.

This role focuses on turning customer needs into measurable outcomes, defining a clear Value Realization roadmap, and guiding cross-functional teams to deliver incremental, high-impact improvements. You will work across Product, Portfolio, R&D, Strategy, and Customer teams to ensure AVEVA’s cloud portfolio consistently drives customer adoption, satisfaction, and long-term business value.

Key responsibilities

Customer Insight & Value Discovery

• Build strong relationships with customers to deeply understand their needs, challenges, and Jobs to Be Done.

• Gather and analyze customer insights to identify where users struggle and where the greatest opportunities for value lie.

• Act as the voice of the customer, ensuring insights drive prioritization and product decisions.

Value Realization Strategy

• Partner with the Value Realization (VR) Architect and VR Program Manager to guide the path toward measurable customer value.

• Collaborate with Strategy and Portfolio teams to define hypotheses, outcomes, and success measures using the Value Realization Canvas.

• Conduct market, customer, and user research to inform data-driven decisions.

Portfolio & Opportunity Definition

• Develop the long-term Value Realization roadmap, aligning it with portfolio strategy and customer needs.

• Define and prioritize Opportunities and end-to-end Jobs to be demonstrated, with milestones and clear measures of success.

• Partner with subject-matter and domain experts to translate customer outcomes into actionable initiatives.

Guiding Execution & Delivery

• Work closely with execution teams to deliver incremental value through 3–9-month iterations (MVP-focused).

• Influence product and capability backlogs to ensure alignment with the Value Realization roadmap.

• Proactively identify and mitigate risks that could affect value delivery.

• Provide ongoing progress updates to Portfolio, Strategy, and business stakeholders.

Measuring Success & Course Correction

• Define leading and lagging value metrics and regularly apply them to assess customer and business impact.

• Analyze delivered outcomes against expectations to guide adjustments, refinements, or new opportunities.

• Provide insights on adoption, usage patterns, and customer value to drive continuous improvement.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Contribute to go-to-market and release readiness initiatives.

• Share best practices across teams to strengthen value-driven delivery processes.

• Work closely with business, engineering, R&D, marketing, and customer organizations to ensure clarity, alignment, and shared success.

Essential requirements

• Senior-level Product Management experience

• Strong strategic thinker with ability to break strategy into actionable steps

• Proven experience delivering customer value through lean, MVP-driven releases

• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Ability to measure value outcomes and adapt quickly based on insights

• Experience influencing multiple teams and managing complex stakeholder environments

• Comfort with ambiguity and alignment across multiple product areas

Desired skills and competencies

• Experience with value-driven product practices

• Familiarity with hypothesis testing and customer risk validation

• Understanding of agile and lean product principles

• Curiosity about adjacent technologies and willingness to learn new domains

UK Benefits include:  

Flexible benefits fund, emergency leave days, adoption leave, 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension, life cover, private medical insurance, parental leave, education assistance program.

It’s possible we’re hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly comprehensive.

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Hybrid working

By default, employees are expected to be in their local AVEVA office three days a week, but some positions are fully office-based. Roles supporting particular customers or markets are sometimes remote.

Hiring process

Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.

Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/hiring-process

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6,500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life – such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals, and minerals – safely, efficiently, and more sustainably.

We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations, our culture, and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets: sustainability-report.aveva.com/

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AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check.  Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third-party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.  AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.