Duration - To September 2024 (extendable)

Rates - TBC/OUTSIDE of IR35 contract

Live DV Clearance required

The role:

The post holder will be responsible for the quality of their products. You will be expected to use your knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame problems and set priorities for your delivery teams. You will:

• Manage products through discovery, alpha, beta, and live states.
• Support lead and senior product managers. Be developing expert skills in and knowledge of product management techniques.

Responsibilities and required experience:

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Agile working:
• Identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes.
• Help the team to decide the best approach. o Help teams to manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and adhere to agreed minimum viable product (MVP), priorities and scope.
• Product ownership:
• Apply tools, terms and concepts in a variety of ways.
• Be flexible, consider new ways of working and adapt to change.
• User focus:
• Collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. o Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. o Champion user research to focus on all users.
• Prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so.
• Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
• Financial ownership:
• Understand the marketplace.
• Realise the benefit of a product and persuade others that it's the right one to use.
• Integrate a product with other services. o Ensure that products get used.
• Realise benefits by linking work in progress back to the business case.
• Build business cases based on user needs.
• Government Digital and Data perspective:
• Demonstrate a working understanding of design, technology and data principles.
• Understand the variety and complexity of users' digital needs, and how the product will meet those needs.
• Show an awareness of assisted digital support and can explain why it's important.
• Design services and make decisions to meet user needs.

• Life cycle perspective:
• Recognise when to move from one stage of a product life cycle to another.
• Ensure the team is working towards the appropriate service standards for the relevant phase.
• Manage the delivery of products and services at different phases.
• Operational management:
• Design operational processes for the running and maintenance of products or services throughout their product life cycle.
• Redesign operational processes, amend existing processes, and plan and put into operation the stages of a new product or service development.
• Act as the escalation point for operational issues and can fix complex operational issues.
• Overcome operational constraints to deliver a successful product or service.
• Work closely with operational delivery teams in Government Digital and Data.. Problem management:
• Ensure that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate problems.
• Co-ordinate the team to investigate problems, implement solutions and take preventive measures.
• Strategic ownership:
• Effectively get buy-in from the organisation.
• Work with scant information and explain it in abstract terms.
• Develop a strategy.
• Working within constraints
• Identify, communicate and work within constraints.
• Challenge the validity of constraints.
• Ensure standards are being met.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level Developed Vetting clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 6 months for this level of security clearance. Adecco Public Sector welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.