Lead Product Manager
| Posting date: | 09 July 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £64,108 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 July 2024 |
| Location: | Swansea |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 358067/1 |
Summary
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Within our ITS directorate, we are recruiting a Product Leader with responsibility for managing and leading a number of products within a product portfolio containing multiple individual products. The Lead Product Manager role is a critical role in driving the development of new and existing DVLA services during and exciting period of development.
Key elements of this role are:
- Managing a portfolio of products, providing leadership and direction, whilst also acting as product manager for the most complex areas
- Creating and maintaining a portfolio level product vision and high-level roadmap across the product portfolio
- Setting strategy and managing resource allocation within product to support product development
- Working closely with other Lead Product Managers to ensure synergy across the product organisation
- Contribute to the DVLA product management capability to build and develop standards and guidance across the capability
- Working closely with the Head of Product to provide leadership and direction within the product community
- Being involved in hiring Senior Product Managers and managing any related contracts
- Budgeting and forecasting across the product portfolio
Lead Product Managers manage a complex portfolio of products at the heart of the delivery of DVLA change programmes. You will be responsible for line management, development and coaching of Senior Product managers, providing the escalation route through to the Head of Product and ensuring the consolidated delivery of technical change across multiple squads.
You will be confident challenging approaches and be a positive role model of the values, attitudes and behaviours of the capability. You will set the vision and strategy of the technical outcomes, manage dependencies, and identify and manage priorities to ensure the successful delivery of the technical products based on introducing value within the products.
You will need to have excellent communication skills and will engage with senior stakeholders at all levels to support the effective delivery of those products and services.
You will own the development and continuous improvement of the product portfolio, turning the vision into reality. You will ensure the product vision is delivered in the most effective way, building something that is reusable and transformational. You will be responsible for balancing requirements within in change initiatives across multiple programmes, continuous product improvements to ensure the product is maintained to DVLA standards, managing defects, technical debt and other improvements identified.
Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:
- Scoping, mobilising and ensuring the delivery of a portfolio of technical products, services and outcomes ensuring the delivery of high-quality digital services using an appropriate blend of agile methodologies, learning & iteration
- Line managing and mentoring Product managers within the product portfolio and support continuous professional development within the capability
- Creating, managing and communicating complex technical roadmaps
- Leading the collaborative, dynamic technical planning process – prioritising outcomes that need to be achieved against the capacity and capability of multi-disciplinary teams and ensuring there is an iterative plan to work towards to ensure successful delivery
- Managing the overall integrity and coherence of the portfolio’s technical delivery, its dependencies and interfaces with other deliverables using appropriate tooling
- Working with engineering teams within the product areas to define and manage an efficient portfolio roadmap that encompasses both new product features and operational maintenance and technology refresh of existing platforms
- Manage continued operational running of the products within the portfolio ensuring in line with service SLAs
For further information about the role please see the attached role profile. Click here for the Word version, and here for the PDF.
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Applications will be accepted from full time/part time/job sharers. Full time roles at DVLA consist of 37 hours per week. Part time and/or flexible working may also be available subject to the needs of the business. If you have a flexible or part time working requirement, you should contact the vacancy holder in advance of making an application to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your desired working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role. To contact the vacancy holder, please use the job contact details listed under ‘Contact point for applicants’.