Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh/Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Product Manager for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £554/day Outside IR35. This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for one or more products within their area to ensure they deliver value, realise the intended benefits and meet the roadmap objectives.
- Work with Associate and Senior Product managers with cross functional teams to deliver outcomes.
- Focus on outcomes and maximising value delivered, whilst understanding what customers need; using an evidence-based approach to manage products and competing priorities.
- Possess strong stakeholder management skills, ideally developed through working in a multi-stakeholder environment.
- Have highly developed analytical skills and arrive to conclusions by making evidence-based decisions that are data focused.
- Take a global view of their domain, bearing in mind the wider context of the work and how this impacts the overall user experience of the services their products support.
- Possess the ability to triage live issues and balance the need for adjustments against in-flight commitments.
- Build relationships with customers and stakeholders and place them at the centre of the decision-making process.
- Are aware of prioritising spend based on ROI and strategic intent.
- Participate in the product community of practice at the organisation
- Represent the organisation at Scottish, UK and international events, if required, specific to their areas of work.
Essential Skills:
- Previous experience in a Product Management role
- Knowledge of Agile and Lean practices.
- Demonstrable success by prioritising work in a complex problem space using data to inform this prioritisation
- Experience translating customer needs into product requirements
- Understanding the wider context of the work and able to recognise and communicate risks and issues early
- Accountable for ensuring "business as usual" for the products in their domain
- Actively seek out feedback, especially when things have not gone as expected
- Manage scope of product iterations, knowing what good looks like with a sharp eye for viability.
- Communicate their product vision as a narrative with the customer at its heart
Collaborate widely to agree priorities, values and outcomes of the problems in their space
- Challenge accepted thinking constructively and are comfortable having difficult conversations
- Think beyond their domain to consider the broader impact of their work and manage dependencies effectively.
- Identify and manage key relationships, especially with business sponsors, customer representatives, technology leadership and end-users
- Facilitate communication between technical and non-technical colleagues
- Bring people together to define problems; as skilled negotiators break siloed thinking and build shared outcomes.
- Manage risk and value in a balanced way that is informed by the strategic objectives
- Take ownership and accountability for the contents of the product backlog working closely with the Senior Product Manager
- Work with technical teams to manage Technical Debt, balancing the need for enhancements against the cost of maintaining existing products.
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