Senior Product Manager (£59,857)
| Posting date: | 07 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £59,857 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The salary of £59,857 (basic salary £54,857) includes a non-pensionable Recruitment and Retention Allowance of £5,000 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2025 |
| Location: | Swansea |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 393009/1 |
Summary
Do you have a passion for development and delivery?
If so, we would love to hear from you.
We are currently recruiting 2 Senior Product Managers to join our IT Services (ITS) directorate.
You will have recent experience and knowledge of product management techniques and will have a strong technical focus. You will have had the experience, responsibility and ownership of the entire product technology stack throughout the life of a product. You will have had responsibility for not only developing new functionality for your product but also prioritising ensuring the product is operationally healthy and is kept up to date to limit and remove security vulnerabilities proactively.
You’ll be adept at creating, owning and delivering complex technical product roadmaps, breaking down barriers for your team, planning at a high level and getting into the detail to make things happen when needed. You can balance and prioritise change initiatives, technical changes, support, maintenance and other tasks to maximise the value of the of development work being undertaken.
You will facilitate the development and continuous improvement of the product, turning the vision into reality. You will ensure the team deliver the vision in the most effective way whilst building something that is reusable and transformational.
As a Senior Product Manager you will manage multiple products or a single product that is especially complex, high-risk or sensitive through multi-disciplinary, highly skilled digital squads.
You will work closely will programme and change teams to understand the change pipeline and agree and prioritise the initiatives in line with the existing product roadmap.
You will also collaborate with service and business colleagues to understand the user needs and objectives required to ensure successful outcomes.
You will collaborate closely with architecture teams to develop designs and solutions to meet the desired outcomes of change initiatives to ensure any development meets DVLA standards and best practices.
You will be responsible for line management, development and coaching of Agile Delivery Manager(s) who manage the development squads and ensuring that they are set up successfully to deliver the product backlog. You will provide the escalation route through to the Head of Product and ensure the consolidated delivery of technical change across multiple squads. You will have had previous experience of people management.
You will be confident challenging approaches within and outside of the squads and be a positive role model of the values, attitudes and behaviours of the capability. You will facilitate focus on the delivery of the technical outcomes, manage dependencies, identify and manage priorities and ensure the successful delivery of the technical products. You will need to have strong communication skills and will engage with senior stakeholders at all levels to support the effective delivery of those products and services.
As part of this you will already hold or be willing to work towards appropriate development / qualifications to achieve professional standards of technical product management, for example Certified Scrum Product Owner or higher.
Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:
- Managing multiple products or a single product that is especially complex, high-risk or sensitive
- Line-managing technical product managers and Agile Delivery Managers
- Having expert product management skills
- Potentially being involved in elements of programme management activity
- Being involved in hiring associates, product managers and contractors
For further information about the role please see the attached role profile.
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Would you like to find out more about the role, the digital team and what it’s like to work at DVLA? If so, we are organising a familiarisation session where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Wednesday 16th April at 12:30pm.
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Additional Information
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’.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills set out in the Civil Service Line Management Standards. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
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