Senior Product Manager

at  Department for Business and Trade

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Product ownership

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £53,560, Department for Business and Trade contributes £15,516 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Please refer to the attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.
Things you need to know

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)

OUR PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO PROTECT PEOPLE AND PLACES FROM PRODUCT-RELATED HARM, ENSURING CONSUMERS AND BUSINESSES CAN BUY AND SELL PRODUCTS WITH CONFIDENCE

Further information can be found on our website here.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles. We embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (DCS) for people with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a product manager for OPSS DDaT, you will help define, explain and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders. You will plan the work for multidisciplinary teams, helping to build out and deliver an exciting product roadmap.
This is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate your product ownership skills and experience. You will provide product manager mentoring and support a range of product management techniques across the team. You will have the opportunity to experience digital services at different stages of the product development lifecycle. As a senior product manager you will take responsibility for managing a product backlog, being a champion for user needs and making data driven decisions.
At OPSS DDaT, you will be part of a rapidly growing community of senior product managers working on a range of digital products and services. Along with the rest of the team, you’ll be helping lead OPSS colleagues through the service development lifecycle.
We’ll also help to further develop you by providing training and experience of working on services throughout the product lifecycle. You’ll learn skills and techniques that will help you to lead large and complex service teams and deliver results.
Our flexible working policy ensures a healthy work-life balance. We also nurture talent and offer a broad range of learning and development opportunities that will help you flourish in your role.
We work hard to maintain a positive working culture and are committed to helping you fulfil your potential. We value diversity and provide an open, inclusive and supportive environment to help you do your best work.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Senior Product Manager at OPSS, you will

• Lead a multidisciplinary team whilst taking digital products through the service development life cycle (discovery, alpha, beta and live)
• Have a detailed understanding of digital and Agile ways of working and coach a multidisciplinary team in applying Agile practices
• Be a champion for user needs to support the iterative delivery of your product
• Develop and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders and provide strategic ownership of this vision throughout the product lifecycle
• Develop and maintain a high-level roadmap that helps users and stakeholders understand the direction and priorities of the service
• Make sure that users are heard throughout the delivery process and use their feedback to drive continuous improvement
• Set measurable goals for your product and report against these to demonstrate progress against stated benefits
• Represent the service to meet governance commitments
• Build an inclusive and collaborative working culture that listens to different views
• Play an active role in the OPSS DDaT community of practice as well as the cross-government product manager community

You can find out more about what we expect from a Product Manager here: https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/product-manager.