Product Managers

at  Met Office

JOB SUMMARY

We’re looking for Product Managers to join our Product Delivery team and help us make a difference to our planet.
As Product Manager, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.
Our opportunities are full time, 37 hours per week, but we would also consider applicants wishing to work a minimum of 30 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we’ll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Your world of expertise
You will have product owner and product management responsibilities for products and services within our portfolios that are key in helping our customers make better decisions so that citizens stay safe and thrive. You will maximise the value delivered by using your knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame problems and set priorities for your delivery teams.

We have exciting vacancies across a number of areas, which may include:

• Citizens, Hazards and Media - enabling UK Citizens and the responder community to make better decisions.
• Data Products and Data Supply - products, services and capabilities that provide access to Met Office data.
• Defence, Transport and Civil Aviation.
• Modernisation of Operational Meteorologist Tools and Systems.

Our Product Manager role is within the Government Digital and Data (GDaD) profession, adopted by the Met Office as guidance to ways of working to ensure our public digital services meet government standards.

Your key duties:

• Develop, own and communicate a product vision and roadmap based on customer, stakeholder and user needs.
• Identify and manage development dependencies on other directly or indirectly related systems or products
• Effective and efficient product lifecycle management. Feed into product development and optimisation, rationalisation, and retirement in line with Met Office project and programme plans, ensuring we do not commit to anything outside of our organisational strategies
• Have a strong customer focus. Gather and analyse user feedback to create customer requirements and to help develop product strategy

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Your key duties:

• Develop, own and communicate a product vision and roadmap based on customer, stakeholder and user needs.
• Identify and manage development dependencies on other directly or indirectly related systems or products
• Effective and efficient product lifecycle management. Feed into product development and optimisation, rationalisation, and retirement in line with Met Office project and programme plans, ensuring we do not commit to anything outside of our organisational strategies
• Have a strong customer focus. Gather and analyse user feedback to create customer requirements and to help develop product strateg