Jonathan Manders
Senior Product Manager Transformation Consultant @IBM
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Product Manager Transformation Consultant @IBM
London, GB
Operating at the intersection of product, process, and enterprise transformation, leading product strategy, discovery, and delivery across a 30+ product portfolio spanning commerce and M&A capabilities within IBM’s sales ecosystem. I align business, engineering, and executive priorities to drive measurable outcomes across complex global platforms, translating strategic goals into product, process, and operating-model improvements.A key focus is working closely with AI leads to enhance and integrate AI capabilities, including IBM.Bob and Copilot, to accelerate advanced product functionality and adoption. I apply GenAI, LLM, and agentic AI awareness to product optimisation, insight generation, and ecosystem integration.Key achievements- Led global government product offerings worth $5bn within a $35bn market, shaping direction and delivery priorities to improve adoption and reduce end-to-end cycle time by 15%- Supported Red Hat M&A ($30bn+) end-to-end by coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, sequencing workstreams, and managing trade-offs to deliver integration outcomesLead discovery with senior stakeholders: clarifying end-to-end journeys, pain points, and opportunities; defining problem statements, target outcomes, and success metricsFocus areas: Product Strategy · AI/GenAI · Enterprise Transformation · Stakeholder Alignment · M&A Integration · OKRs & KPIs · Business Value Realisation
EDUCATION
Leeds Business School
Bachelor's Degree, Business and management, BA
West Herts College
Btec Level 3 (A Levels equiviliant), Public Services
University of Leeds
Bachelor’s Degree, BSc
SKILLS
ABOUT JONATHAN MANDERS
1.5tn+ CxO Portfolio | Driving Outcomes in $100bn+ Ecosystems | AI-Driven Transformation | Exploring Game Production & Strategy | Established in Health & Nutrition | EntrepreneurAfter building three startups and completing a first-class degree in Business and Management, amongst a breadth of further experiences, I began my career in technology consulting at IBM in 2017.I operate at the intersection of product, strategy, and enterprise transformation; leading product and delivery across complex global platforms, AI-enabled ecosystems, and multi-billion-dollar programmes spanning commerce, M&A, and government.I approach every challenge with curiosity, structure, and a bias toward impact. Whether shaping roadmaps for platforms underpinning $100bn+ in annual revenue, driving GenAI and agentic AI integration, or translating complex technical trade-offs for executive stakeholders; I find the most value in the space between strategy and delivery, and between knowing and not knowing.My entrepreneurial roots are foundational to how I work. My \"holy trinity\" of startups: protein supplements, a manual labour venture, and a music agency, gave me hands-on operational experience, sharpened my problem-solving instincts, and accelerated my leadership development long before the corporate world. I believe the best operators have built something themselves.Problem-solving drives me. I believe in fully understanding context before designing solutions, and I thrive in complexity; the kind where strategy, people, technology, and delivery are all tangled together.I\'ve learned that struggles often lead to the greatest growth. Failure is not the opposite of success; it is part of it.Beyond work, I am deeply committed to societal wellbeing; through charitable work (BRC, CiN) and a genuine interest in public service (Military, NHS). My ethical framework draws from deontology, utilitarianism, and contemporary virtue theory. I apply the same multi-lens thinking to navigate difficult decisions in business as I do in life. Books that shape my thinking: The Art of War (Sun Tzu) · Obliquity (John Kay) · Narconomics (Tom Wainwright)
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