Senior Product Manager
| Posting date: | 02 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,300 to £70,730 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £60,300 - £66,330 London: £64,300 - £70,730 New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band minimum: £60,300 for National Roles and £64,300 for London Roles. Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA): Up to £6,000 is avail |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 July 2025 |
| Location: | Sheffield |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 413626/3 |
Summary
You will identify opportunities for improving business outcomes and enhancing benefits, looking to continuously improve the quality, capability and efficiency of your product. You will have the final say on quality and whether something is ready to be released into production. You may be asked either to be responsible for a single, complex, large product, or multiple related products.
In addition, you may line manage, coach and mentor Associate Product Managers and Product Managers, and be involved in recruitment related processes
Due to business requirements this post is available on a full time/flexible working basis. Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office. Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.
We value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from the widest diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. We encourage applications from women, people with disabilities and LGBT+ as they are currently under-represented in the Home Office at this grade level. Appointments will be made on merit based on fair and open competition.
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
- Forming the vision for the product(s) you own and engage teams and stakeholders in the development of that vision over time.
- Leading the production of roadmaps, release plans and lifecycle plans for the delivery and maintenance of the product(s) from inception right the way through to retirement as well as inputting into the departmental wide approach to road mapping/lifecycle planning.
- Taking a product through its lifecycle (e.g. discovery, alpha, beta, live) including service assessments.
- Representing users and focus on their needs throughout the delivery process.
- Leading the prioritisation process for the work that needs to be done by the development team by creating and maintaining a product backlog which balances immediate user needs with the long-term investment in development and overall business benefits.
- Providing final sign off on any completed functional development prior to the deployment to a production environment for your product(s).
- Taking the lead in using product or service usage data, and user feedback to devise new ideas for functionality or new ways of working with a continuous improvement mindset and take a lead in promoting such evidence/data driven design across the wider department.
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