Defence Digital - Lead Product Manager
| Posting date: | 10 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £59,690 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | A pension contribution 28.97% based on the listed salary |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 August 2025 |
| Location: | SN13 9NR, BS34 8JH, SW1A 2HB |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 415008 |
Summary
As Lead Product Managers, you will be at the forefront of delivering the right capabilities to support the UK’s Defence strategy. You will own the life cycle of your product, ensuring it aligns with Defence priorities and delivers maximum operational value. Your responsibilities will include ensuring your team understands and executes tasks of the highest priority, optimising resources to maximise their impact, and collaborating directly with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
In this role, you will also mentor and coach junior Product Managers, supporting their development and building expertise across the organisation. With potential oversight of complex products or larger teams, you will play a key role in maintaining stakeholder alignment and delivering innovative, mission-critical outcomes that strengthen the UK’s Defence capabilities.
Responsibilities:
Provide information needed to enable users to make the most of the products its life cycle, e.g. ensure service management has timely access to product and information so they can support it.
Develop and execute product strategy that keeps key stakeholders informed, aligns to product vision, and ensure customer value is prioritised.
Balancing resources between teams to ensure the overall outcomes are aligned to product vision and use of resources are optimised to deliver best value.
Work with the problem owner to ensure problem is fully understood and product solution meets their needs.
Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.
In this role, you will also mentor and coach junior Product Managers, supporting their development and building expertise across the organisation. With potential oversight of complex products or larger teams, you will play a key role in maintaining stakeholder alignment and delivering innovative, mission-critical outcomes that strengthen the UK’s Defence capabilities.
Responsibilities:
Provide information needed to enable users to make the most of the products its life cycle, e.g. ensure service management has timely access to product and information so they can support it.
Develop and execute product strategy that keeps key stakeholders informed, aligns to product vision, and ensure customer value is prioritised.
Balancing resources between teams to ensure the overall outcomes are aligned to product vision and use of resources are optimised to deliver best value.
Work with the problem owner to ensure problem is fully understood and product solution meets their needs.
Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.