Join Mintel and help shape the future of global consumer insights.

We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our growing Product leadership team — someone who can blend visionary thinking, market obsession, and product execution excellence to lead Mintel into its next era of innovation and growth.

This role is a unique opportunity to operate at the highest strategic level — guiding product direction, aligning across the business, and building cutting-edge solutions that shape entire industries.

Why This Role Matters

As Principal Product Manager focused on our One Mintel AI Platform Proposition & Roadmap, you’ll:

• Lead cross-functional strategic initiatives across the product portfolio.

• Drive lean, data-driven product development that delivers measurable ROI.

• Ensure strategic alignment between product vision and company-wide goals.

• Partner closely with senior global stakeholders and C-suite to turn product strategy into real-world impact.

• Help define how Mintel builds product – not just what we build.

This isn’t just about feature releases. It’s about redefining market categories, driving multi-million-pound growth, and ensuring Mintel stays indispensable to the world’s leading brands.

What You’ll Be Doing

Drive our Vision Forward:

• Bring to life Mintel’s multi-year product strategy, identifying transformational opportunities across our portfolio.

• Build market-defining roadmaps rooted in client insight, commercial reality, competitive intelligence, and long-term impact.

Drive Strategic Delivery:

• Lead high-priority, cross-team and cross-functional initiatives, guiding other product managers, design, data and engineering teams toward aligned outcomes.

• Orchestrate large-scale initiatives across commercial, marketing, data, futures and engineering teams, with trust and influence to drive complex delivery.

Direct Commercial Impact:

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Consulting leaders to design and execute go-to-market plans for major launches.

• Build compelling business cases and value propositions to drive adoption, retention, and revenue growth.

• Support commercial team as a trusted product team representation in winning high-value client proposals.

Influence at the Highest Level:

• Operate as a trusted advisor to C-suite and global leadership.

• Drive clarity, alignment, and excitement around product strategy across the organisation.

Be a Product Culture Shaper:

• Champion lean methodologies: including MVPs, rapid experimentation, fast validation, and continuous learning.

• Help reimagine how product is built at Mintel — AI-first thinking in discovery and validation to delivery and measurement.

• Lead the strategic use of AI/ML in product development to gain competitive advantage.

• Coach and mentor product managers to elevate the craft across the team.

What We’re Looking For

Essential:

• 10+ years in Product Management, including time at a Principal/Lead level.

• Proven experience leading strategic, cross-functional product initiatives spanning multiple teams and domains.

• Deep knowledge of lean product development and ability to implement it across teams.

• Strong commercial acumen with a track record of delivering significant revenue impact and supporting high-value client proposals.

• Executive-level influencing and stakeholder management experience — you know how to bring the business with you.

• Sharp communicator — you bring clarity and confidence to the overarching product vision and roadmap.

• Proficient in tools like MixPanel, Productboard, Jira, and data analytics platforms.

Preferred:

• Master’s degree or MBA.

• Experience working with Data Science, AI, or Data Engineering teams.

• Background in strategy or management consulting.

• Nice to have: Exposure or experience in FMCG

his is a genuine opportunity to have a voice and be part of shaping decisions and direction in this exciting space. You will join the Information Security Team and will be helping us to make changes that contribute to the quality of our systems and user environments whether on-prem, in data centres or in the cloud.

You’re interested in building capabilities that improve security posture through hands-on configuration, system administration and enjoy the challenge of working with a variety of technology environments and teams.

Why join Mintel? We are the world’s leading market intelligence agency, and technology underpins our success. We help our clients understand consumers and consumer markets, and we aspire to provide the market intelligence behind every great business decision. Our technology allows us to deliver data, insights, and opinions in a compelling way to our clients across the globe.

We support a hybrid working approach.

What You Will Do?

• Define end user security experience
• Delivering projects with product, development and support teams
• Develop the effectiveness of detection and response management
• Triage, track and follow security issues to completion
• Lead team incident management procedures
• Develop security automation response for anomalous events and changes in risk
• Work with 3rd party vendors/partners on security engagements
• Transforming system review/config audit into continual improvement cycles
• Conducting end point, server and device config reviews
• Be a SME resource for operational security control advice & threat modelling for the business

What are we looking for?

Essential knowledge:

• Solid understanding of cybersecurity concepts, including threats, vulnerabilities, security operations, encryption, boundary defence, authentication and risk management.
• IAM & Directory Management engineering (Azure/Entra/ M365)
• Detection & Response platforms
• Securing mobile, server and desktop operating systems
• Security Architecture principles
• Network Security engineering
• Securing AWS workloads
• Microsoft 365 E5 security & compliance capabilities, including Microsoft Defender XDR (Defender for Endpoint/Identity/Office 365/Cloud Apps) and Microsoft Purview (Information Protection, DLP, eDiscovery, Insider Risk)
• Operational familiarity with authentication, authorisation and non-repudiation techniques
• Operationalizing alert and intelligence data into actionable response
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Windows & Linux System administration

Desirable Knowledge:

• Working across hybrid cloud environments
• CIS hardening & benchmark standards
• Cloud and AI engineering capabilities
• One or more of the following would be advantageous: KQL, Python, linux shell
• Data regulations as they relate to IT systems
• Data Visualisation skills
• Secure enablement and governance of Microsoft Copilot and GenAI (Copilot for Security, Microsoft 365 Copilot).
• Execution of change/project mgmt. across teams in & outside of IT
• Working with Container and orchestration tools
• Working with DevOps teams

What you’ll get in return:

• A culture that supports true collaboration whilst embracing remote working with a company wide hybrid working week.
• Approach to personal development where we encourage individuals to grow and share what they’ve learned.
• Social events, both within the department and across the company
• Generous holiday allowance with the opportunity to buy back additional holiday.
• A day off to celebrate your birthday
• Giving back is part of our culture with this in mind Mintel gives each employee 2 days per year to give to a worthwhile cause.

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