Lead Product Manager - FTC 8 months

DSIT • Full-time • Coventry, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom • £50.88k - £62.01k / year • 5d ago

As a Lead Product Manager, you will be at the heart of our user and business-centric approach, working in multidisciplinary squads alongside other talented and passionate professionals. Your role will involve making informed decisions to deliver business value, embracing a fail-fast mentality, iterating, and continuously improving our services to meet the needs of our users and align with strategic priorities.

You will apply Agile and Lean practices to select the best delivery methods, adapt when things don't work, and encourage experimentation. You will help teams measure and visualise outcomes, promoting reflective practice to improve ways of working. Creating value for money is key; you will estimate item values, compare effort to value, decide when to reuse items, and manage risks appropriately. You ensure stakeholders understand costs and communicate investment benefits. Leading multiple product and service delivery through different life cycle phases, you will ensure alignment with service standards and adapt approaches based on new information.

You will identify and communicate with key stakeholders, build relationships, and use evidence to explain decisions to non-technical and technical people. You will work to improve internal and external stakeholder relationships and reach consensus on opposing views. You will be responsible for maintaining product and strategic roadmaps and communicating priority clearly to wider stakeholders.

In addition to these responsibilities, you will lead the product function, manage the product team, and take ownership of Ofqual's standards for the product profession.

Leveraging user insights, you'll represent users, advocate for comprehensive research and agree on work priorities. You will ensure that product managers apply user research insights to ensure product decisions align with real user needs. You'll champion user perspectives, promote in-depth research, prioritise work effectively, and identify the best tools for gathering actionable insights; all to drive informed, user-centric product development.

You will investigate and validate what adds value, create a prioritised roadmap, manage scope and deadlines, and recommend product management methods. You will leverage your product management and leadership skills, adhering to the Service Manual and Service Standard, to drive our mission forward.

If you are keen to find out more about our Digital and Data Team and the roles we have currently vacant, please join us for a Teams seminar.