Role: Product Manager
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Hybrid/London, Bristol or Manchester - No minimum expectation for onsite working per week, however they should have flexibility for team meetings in the London office.
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £500 - £600 per day
Security Clearance: Active or Lapsed SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Product Manager for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PRODUCT MANAGER
- Work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver the product and iteratively improve it through several cycles.
- Develop an expert understanding of the users' needs and behaviours, championing these in the delivery of the product.
- Define, explain and iterate an evidence-based product vision that is compelling to users, teams and stakeholders.
- Maintain a roadmap and product strategy that show plans at different horizons and levels of detail.
- Develop and prioritise a product backlog, writing effective user stories and making decisions based on evidence and value for money.
- Identify assumptions and risks behind possible approaches and incorporate these into product planning.
- Collaborate with team members to create prototypes and other low-cost ways to test assumptions and approaches at both strategic and usability levels.
- Safely use test-and-learn approaches where the costs and risks of an incorrect technology choice are low.
- Set measurable goals for the product and report progress against stated benefits.
- Share insights with leadership at appropriate points to help the programme strategy adapt and maximise success.
- Support the vision, roadmaps and delivery of other products across the programme and client
- Consider opportunities to use data to create personalised and curated digital experiences.
- Engage with users and stakeholders through a range of channels to encourage adoption and use of the product
- Build services in line with the Service Manual principles.
- Adapt approaches according to the lifecycle phase of the work
- Understand, communicate and, where necessary, challenge the validity of constraints.
- Create, curate and continuously improve product documentation.
- Play an active role in the government product management community, sharing learning and celebrating the progress of others.
- Play an active role in the government product manager community, sharing your learning and celebrating progress made by other people and teams.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE PRODUCT MANAGER
- Experience of successfully developing and releasing digital products with proficiency in agile product management techniques, such as roadmaps; prioritisation; creation of user stories; MVP definition; using research, analytics and insight to inform decisions; planning at different horizons;
- An understanding of the variety of disciplines involved in digital delivery, including engineering, content design, service design, performance analysis and user research, developed through working in multidisciplinary teams
- Successfully engaged with users to improve their products, commissioning research and turning qualitative and quantitative insight into product improvements
- Successfully handled a range of stakeholder relationships to successfully deliver products that meet user needs and deliver business outcomes
- Reconciled strong differing opinions using evidence or user research
- Evaluated return on investment/value for money on different approaches
- Been familiar with setting, monitoring and reporting measurable performance objectives
- Used data and analytics to spot problems with, and evaluate success of, new features or any experiments
- Devised communication strategies and engagement plans that drive adoption at the right pace for current confidence levels.
If you are a Product Manager, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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