Senior Product Manager - Birmingham - ref. a35011719
About OPSS
Do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Can we use your skills, knowledge and experience to enable UK business to thrive? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you!
We are the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business & Trade. We are here for the purpose of making regulation work to deliver real world impact. Regulation is a powerful Government tool to address market failures, influence behaviour and promote positive action.Crafted and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation and efficiency.
Since early 2018 we have been building a positive and creative team that enjoys a position of influence and respect within an organisation that continues to grow.
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.
We are Inclusive
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 recognise how important inclusivity is to achieve the best outcomes. We hope to attract applications from all underrepresented groups.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation if required to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.Please contact us to request accommodation.
About the team
We are the OPSS Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) team, and we build digital services focused on product safety and regulation. Our digital services are ultimately responsible for protecting people and places from product related harm.
Our team is a mixture of civil servants and contractors that collaborate in agile service teams working on user centred designs.
We have an exciting portfolio of services that have internal and external users with further services in our pipeline for future development.
This is an exciting time to be at OPSS DDaT. As a fast-growing area of the Department for Business and Trade, we’re raising compliance standards across the board and making a real-world impact on millions of lives nationwide.
This is a senior leadership role for experienced product managers who will have the opportunity to develop and grow in the profession.
OPSS has sites in Birmingham, London and Teddington. This role can be based in either our Birmingham or London office. There will be a need to travel to our other sites on occasions.
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.