Lead Product Manager – Data Products
| Posting date: | 27 May 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 June 2025 |
| Location: | Bedford, MK42 9AB |
| Company: | Reed Talent Solutions |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | MaPS00837-336137 |
Summary
Lead Product Manager – Data Products
c. £85,000 per annum
Bedford Based
Hybrid Working
Permanent
Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Lead Product Manager for Data Products where you will be responsible for a product portfolio, and the delivery of product quality and value. They work with teams to identify, implement and improve strategies and tactics for their data products. They are a member of the management team for their product area and provide product leadership and direction across multiple teams.
As Lead Product Manager, you will be part of the central Product Management Community of Practice in MaPS and will also be responsible for understanding and meeting the criteria set out in the Government Digital Service Standards.
The Lead Product Manager for data products reports to the Head of Data and Analytics. The role is aligned to the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework: https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/product-manager#lead-product-manager
You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.
Key responsibilities:
Enablement of MaPS Data Professionals:
- Learning and Development: Develop and implement a ‘Data Product Playbook’ to support MaPS Data Professionals in adopting a product approach to dashboard development.
- Solving Insight Challenges: Assist MaPS data professionals in addressing stakeholder challenges and designing data products for easy access to actionable information.
- User Interface and User Experience Development: Collaborate with data/BI analysts and UI/UX designers to enhance the usability and accessibility of data products, primarily Power BI dashboards.
Development of Individual Data Products:
- Iterative Development: Lead the iterative development of data products, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with user needs.
- Product Lifecycle Management: Oversee data product lifecycles, making informed decisions based on usage statistics.
- Combining Data for New Insights: Integrate data from multiple sources to uncover new insights and drive strategic initiatives.
- Operating Model: Implement a comprehensive operating model for Data Product development, including reactive, proactive, and strategic layers.
Ownership of MaPS Business Intelligence Hub:
- Roadmap Management: Manage and communicate the roadmap for the Business Intelligence Hub to key stakeholders, including Senior Leaders.
- Report Consolidation and Reporting Frameworks: Oversee report consolidation and develop robust reporting frameworks to support data-driven decision-making.
- Understanding Value: Establish a framework to track and understand the usage and impact of data products within the Business Intelligence Hub.
- Legal Governance and Privacy: Address legal governance and privacy considerations at the start of Data Product development.
Key accountabilities:
- Manage people and manage products.
- Maintain the high level roadmap.
- Be involved in a range of programme management activities relevant to their product portfolio.
- Be involved in recruiting product managers at all levels and contractors.
- Provide leadership in your programmes and across the local community, working closely with the head of product, where they exist.
You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Product leadership
- Product management/Ownership of Data hubs or similar.
- Agile and Lean practices
- Applying user-centred insights
- Creating value for money
- Life cycle management
- Managing product outcomes. Evidence of taking a product from non-maturity through to maturity
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Strategic ownership
About Us:
The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.
At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting, and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves with our values:
- Caring
We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform. - Connecting
We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections. - Transforming
We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.
Our Inclusive Working Environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”
Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.
Flexible Working
At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Career Development
In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.
Reserve List
If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.
Application Process
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: recruitment@maps.org.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.
Job Reference: MaPS00837
Close Date: 10/06/2025
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