Senior Product Manager

 

Main characteristics

Location

Tyne & Wear

Company

Department of Work & Pensions

Salary

£69869 - £77740/annum

Employment type

Permanent

Category

IT

Job summary

Senior Product Manager: Pay up to £77,740 plus up to 30.3% employer pension contributions, hybrid home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

Are you an experienced Product Manager and Leader?
Do you believe technology can transform a complex department like DWP, and make a difference to millions of people's lives?

We have an exciting opportunity for Senior Product Manager to join us in our retirement portfolio to help manage and transform multiple digital services.

DWP is UK's largest department, every year we pay over £120 billion to 18million DWP customers.

DWP services cover everything from helping children & families right through to supporting relatives of lost loved ones. We help people find jobs, support people financially when they are unable to work due to health conditions and make ensure everybody has the money they need to live during their retirement years.

We are proud to be in the Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2022 list and a disability confident employer.

The scale of what we do is outstanding, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

Delivery. Work. Product.

We need a user-driven Senior Product Manager to join our Retirement Services team.

We are responsible for running and transforming digital services that enable millions of
people over state pension age to plan for retirement and secure all the support they need to live without unnecessary hardship.

We're looking for a Product Manager who can make evidenced-based strategic and tactical product decisions.

You'll be actively involved in developing the product strategy and owning the product roadmap.

You will be responsible for:

Communicating product success to stakeholders
Owning the product roadmap
Explaining controversial choices about your product
Coaching less experienced product managers
Making evidence-based strategic and tactical product choices
Developing the product strategy
Working in a Data driven and Agile environment

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

You have experience of working with complex, high-risk projects and programmes.
Experience of working with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams, applying an agile methodology and mindset in a complex environment to enable incremental delivery.
You have experience of navigating constraints and ambiguity successfully (including but not limited to technology, policy, regulatory, financial and legal constraints).
Ability to put users first as part of a commitment to user-centred design and know how to achieve this amongst competing priorities including achieving value for the business.
Have worked across boundaries to effectively communicate the product vision and gain stakeholder buy in.
You have experience of mentoring and coaching product people and teams in order to deliver high quality products and services.

Details. Wages. Perks.

You'll join us in your choice of one our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.

We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model with a mix of home working and sometime in the office.

In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay of £69,869 to £77,740.

You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 27.9% - 30.3%. That could be worth as much £23,555 a year in your pension pot.

You'll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 31 days over time, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
Family-friendly policies
Time off volunteering and charitable giving
Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
Sports and social activities
Working in an award-winning environment and culture
Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

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