Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") are bringing an exciting opportunity for a Senior Product Manager to champion the delivery and continuous improvement of products and define, own, and solve problems that enable value. £53,560 to £65,300 including allowances plus 27% pension contribution and other excellent Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford and Edinburgh.
Job Description
As a Senior Product Manager at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) you'll champion the delivery and continuous improvement of products and define, own, and solve problems that enable value. You'll work with researchers to understand user needs; stakeholders and service owners to understand business value; and your whole team to prototype and implement solutions that are viable and sustainable. You'll own and develop a coordinated product strategy with other teams in Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) and across the wider organisation, understanding the goals of our stakeholders, and work with your team to help validate assumptions, sharing insight and learnings to create better outcomes and demonstrate the benefits of user-centred design.
DBT's Data Services Portfolio, where this role sits, build digital products and services that enable our global network of staff, partners and members of the public to spot opportunities, monitor progress and make decisions with data. We work closely with users, stakeholders and data professionals to deliver user-centred, data-driven solutions using contemporary tools and techniques, directly supporting the Department's strategic goals and the economic growth of the UK.
Product Managers at DBT have expert knowledge of product management techniques coupled with developing strategic skills. They provide direction and empowerment to one or more high performing multidisciplinary teams, ensuring return on investment and execution of the vision. Product Managers represent users throughout the delivery process, and advocate for well-governed Agile methodology to the rest of the department. ?
Main responsibilities As a Senior Product Manager, you will manage the development of one or more digital services or products. In this role, you will:
- lead one or more multidisciplinary agile teams, providing product direction to deliver digital services and products through the product lifecycle
- understand the policy context and business drivers behind ideas, and develop ways to identify and test the key assumptions to establish problem-solution fit, so that we quickly discover the most appropriate way to deliver user and business value
- create effective, prioritised product roadmaps and product descriptions to meet user needs in a cost-effective way
- deliver services that meet the Government Digital Service (GDS) Standard and are best in class for government, giving the same level of digital experience users expect from daily interaction with the most respected web services
- underpin the delivery and iteration of digital services through a communicable understanding of diverse audience groups and effective analysis and presentation of qualitative and quantitative user data??
- develop and manage stakeholder relationships to create buy in for the product?
- work with your delivery manager to ensure your team is high performing?
You may also line manage product managers and support their professional development.
Skills and Experience In your application you will need to demonstrate that you have the skills and experience of:
- Product ownership: You know how to use a range of product management principles and approaches. You can apply these in a variety of ways to balance the needs of users, the business and technology. You can be flexible, consider new ways of working and adapt to change, using evidence to inform your decisions.
- Strategic ownership: You can create and maintain a product roadmap that sets a clear direction for success and adapt it to new perspectives or dependencies. You can get buy-in from the organisation.
- User Focus: You can give direction on which user research tools or methods to use. You can meet the needs of users across multiple channels. You can show how user needs have changed over time. You can apply strategic thinking to provide the best service for the end user.
- Agile working: You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery of value. You can coach and lead teams in agile practices, determining the right approach at the right time in the product lifecycle to achieve the right outcomes.
- Problem ownership: You can ensure that the right actions are taken to anticipate and resolve problems at the right time. You understand how problems fit into the bigger picture, coordinate the team to investigate problems and implement solutions or preventative measures.
- Working within constraints: You have experience of working with and challenging senior stakeholders, prioritising and mitigating constraints, adapting the approach depending on the constraints, and turning constraints into an advantage.
Further information:
- This role requires you to undergo SC clearance where the requirement is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
- DBT does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.
If you are an experienced Product Manager looking to impact a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Charys Colchester at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.