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Senior Product Manager - Inside IR35

Contract Term: 6 Months

Contracting Authority: DWP

Location: Hybrid - Birmingham/Manchester/ Leeds/Sheffield/Blackpool/Newcastle

Description:

As a Senior Product Manager, you will manage the development of a product. You will work with products which are either highly visible or have key strategic value to the organisation. You will be responsible for strategic and tactical product decisions, using your knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame problems and set priorities for the delivery team. You will also be actively involved in developing the product strategy and managing the product roadmap.
As a Senior Product Manager you will have expert knowledge of product management techniques. You may work as part of a larger product team, managing more junior Product Managers or may work with a Lead Product Manager to manage multiple products.

Summary of the Role and key responsibilities:

• Own the vision for the product, working with stakeholders to ensure strategic fit and engaging the development team to maintain alignment and buy in

• Develop the product strategy and manage the product roadmap as well as prioritising the product backlog through a range of techniques to maximise value and return on investment

• Identify and communicate user needs to the development and delivery team through the creation of backlog items (user stories) and representing users and other stakeholders at team meetings such as planning and review session.

• Define product goals and metrics, monitoring performance against outcomes.

• Manage, influence and negotiate with stakeholders and communicate progress and achievements, championing the product within the department.

• Lead product team, and ensure the product is developed to an appropriate level of quality taking into consideration expected lifetime, investment and timeframes.

• Support the professional development of associate Product Managers and Product Managers in your area.

Technical Skills required:

• Experienced in applying tools, terms and concepts in a variety of ways. Able to be flexible, consider new ways of working and adapt to change.

• Ensures that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate problems. Coordinates the team to investigate problems, implement solutions and take preventative measures. Able to dissect a problem to its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes. Able to troubleshoot and identify problems across different technology capabilities. Takes accountability of issues that occur and is proactive in searching for potential problems. Achieves excellent user outcomes.

• Determines the strategic vision and direction. Positively influences key senior stakeholders. Provides an arbitration function.

• Able to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes. Able to recognise when something does not work and encourages a mindset of experimentation. Can adapt and reflect, is resilient and has the ability to see outside of the process. Able to use a blended approach depending on the context. Able to help teams to manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and work to agreed minimum viable product (MVP).

• Understands and can help teams apply a range of techniques for data profiling and source system analysis from a complex single source. Able to bring multiple data sources together in a conformed model for analysis.

• Understands the difference between user needs and desires of the user. Has experience in meeting user needs across a variety of channels. Able to integrate digital analytics with qualitative data, such as user surveys and user research, to develop hypotheses for testing. Can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used. Able to collaborate with user researchers and can sell/represent users internally. Understands the difference between user needs and desires of the user. Able to champion user research to focus on all users. Can prioritise and defines approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so.

• Able to apply experience of multiple parts of the lifecycle. Able to recognise when it is right to move forward and when it is right to stop. Able to recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet these. Able to work with other agile delivery operations throughout the product lifecycle. Able to plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.

Knowledge and Experience required:

• You are expected to have worked across department or functional boundaries in order to effectively communicate a product vision and gain stakeholder buy in

• Have created and communicated a product roadmap, receiving and acting upon challenge from stakeholders.

• Have successfully delivered one or more products meeting a number of successful outcomes.

• Have worked with users to articulate their needs and communicated these to a product team.

• Had experience of managing products in a complex environment, effectively prioritising backlog items to maximise value.

• Have made effective decisions based on incomplete information using a range of techniques.