James Mann

Maritime Product Manager

Taunton, England, United Kingdom

About

Product Manager with broad experience in the Maritime and Communications sectors. Excited to be developing innovative solutions based on the VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) and AAC Clyde Space data services. Working closely with industry, maritime agencies and standards bodies to define and launch Maritime Communications and Maritime Domain Awareness services, for now and the next decade. I represent AAC Clyde Space at the IALA DTEC standards group attending Working Group 3 and several working groups within the VDES Alliance. I am the Product Manager for 'Project INFLECION' which AAC Clyde Space are proud to be leading in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA). I am a certified Prince2 Agile Practitioner specialising in the discovery and development of new services. Passionate about building service models which work and are scalable. Recent portfolio includes geo-spatial data products, SaaS and Digital Twins. Please get in touch to talk about AIS, the VHF Data Exchange System (VDES), Maritime Connectivity and Maritime Domain Awareness based on space data.

Experience

  • Maritime Product Manager at AAC Clyde Space
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Product Manager at UK Hydrographic Office
    Feb 2023 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Privileged to be the Product Manager in the UKHO Innovation Team helping improve safety of navigation into and out of ports and drive maritime decarbonisation. Supporting the development of 3D visualisation products based on Unreal Engine (a Digital Twin) and researching opportunities for UKHO in the highly competitive Voyage Optimisation market.

  • Service Portfolio Lead at Arqiva
    Dec 2017 - Aug 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    Defined and implemented change within customer-facing and supporting services. Managed demand for change and prioritised the development backlog to enable the delivery of Arqiva's Smart Metering services at increasing scale. Initiated a broad range of change to automate and scale the Smart Metering solution including Agile application development, system upgrades and infrastructure replacement. Managed specialist resources including Service Design and Business Analysts to collect requirements and complete concept designs. Resolved prioritisation, budget and resourcing issues. Built strong working relationships across Arqiva to deliver change. Worked closely with Project Office to mature Portfolio Delivery processes, prioritisation and assessment activities. Managed projects following Prince2 framework.

  • Product and Market Development Consultant at Orilla Consulting
    Aug 2014 - Nov 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Various Product and Market development activities including: - Optimised and delivered demand generation campaigns based on webinar, telesales and email with Actus International supporting end clients Cisco and Kofax. - Automation of marketing acquisition services for International Alliance of Health Care Educators (IAHE). - Definition of a Service Management capability and bid content creation on behalf of Noxium Engineering S.L. for Thales Group.

  • Senior Product Manager at Yell
    Jul 2012 - Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Global Product Team representative in Spain to define and launch the new line of digital marketing services for Small & Medium Enterprise customers. Solution was based on reselling third party solutions from partners Google (AdWords Search Engine Marketing) and iPromote (Display Advertising). Managed integration and transformation of activities to launch and operate the new services. Responsible for P&L and achievement of the quarterly Google reseller bonuses.