IAM Product Strategist is required to work on a 6 month contract for a global enterprise based in the Midlands. The IAM product strategist will play a critical role in the overall Product Management of IAM within the company by defining the Product Strategy, Vision and Roadmaps.

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The Opportunity

By developing a deep understanding of both IAM Customer needs and the available capabilities/technologies in the market, the Product Strategist will ensure customer needs are built into the product DNA and are translated into concepts that can be delivered by our Agile teams (Solution Architecture, Technology Specialists, Compliance & Assurance) delivering measurable business outcomes.

The Product Strategist (IAM) role is concerned with the entire organisation and its IAM product alignment with business objectives and can develop a high-level view of the organisation's structure, processes, and technology to ensure everything works together cohesively when it comes to IAM strategy enablement within the company.

IAM Customers in the context of this role includes:

- Internal and external end users of the identity platform

- Service delivery teams who support the end users

- Product Owners who utilise the Identity services

- Internal and external governance teams/auditors.

The scope of this role is global, and includes:

- All identity communities - Enterprise (workforce), Business Partners, Customers, Vehicles.

- All identity types - human & non-human accounts (eg service accounts)

- All identity use cases - privileged and non-privileged

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Significant prior experience as a subject matter expert within Identity and Access Management, in particular deep technical knowledge of identity management within a technology agnostic IT, IoT and OT space
• Significant knowledge of Identity and Access Management governance principles and best practices and experience in managing information security risk relating to identity.
• Experience of Working in a Product based organisation and defining future strategy in terms of high level Epics and User Stories.

Desirable:

• Experience of working and influencing cross-functionally and managing external agencies
• Good working knowledge of industry IT compliance standards, particularly in design and implementation
• Experience of relationship management of senior stakeholders
• Strong IT skills, able to analyse data for reporting purposes
• Knowledge of identity and access management within a DevOps environment, including API Management platforms, containerisation and in all key cloud platforms
• Knowledge and experience in managing Identity and Access within a manufacturing organisation

Previous experience of having worked and Product/Strategic consultant in creating a High Level IAM Strategy for a global enterprise.