Product Manager - Data Products
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Bedford, MK40 1SU |
| Cwmni: | Reed Talent Solutions |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | MaPS00963-341050 |
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Product Manager - Data Products
c.£57000 per annum
Bedford
Permanent
Hybrid Working
Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Product Manager (Data Products). This role offers you the chance to make a significant impact by leading the development and continuous improvement of data products that support the Pensions Dashboard and MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard programmes—delivering value to internal users and key external stakeholders including the Department for Work and Pensions, The Pensions Regulator, and the Financial Conduct Authority.
This role is aligned to the Product Manager level in the:
https://ddat-capabilityframework.service.gov.uk/role/product-manager#product-manager
You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.
Role Overview
The Product Manager for Data Products will report directly to the Lead Product Manager for Data Products. In this role, you will be responsible for:
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the development of data products that underpin the MoneyHelper Pension Dashboard and related programmes.
- Lead the iterative development of data products, ensuring alignment with user needs and organisational goals.
- Collaborate with BI analysts and UI/UX designers to improve the usability and accessibility of data products, primarily Power BI dashboards.
- Ensure data products are designed to be accessible and valuable to external organisations including government and regulatory bodies.
- Use product usage data to inform prioritisation and lifecycle decisions.
- Address legal, privacy, and governance considerations early in the product lifecycle.
- Manage the development and iteration of one or more data products or services.
- Engage with stakeholders to understand needs and manage expectations.
- Translate user needs and business goals into product outcomes.
- Maintain and communicate product roadmaps and backlogs.
- Collaborate with delivery managers, designers, analysts, engineers, and developers to deliver value.
- Use evidence and data to inform product decisions and prioritisation.
- Contribute to the wider product community at MaPS.
You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience.
To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate:
- Product management – experience managing data products or services such as business intelligence dashboards.
- Agile and Lean practices – applying Agile principles and tools to support delivery.
- Applying user-centred insights – using stakeholder insights to improve product outcomes.
- Creating value for money – identifying opportunities for reuse and efficiency.
- Life cycle management – understanding product lifecycle phases.
- Managing product outcomes – identifying priority outcomes and using baseline data.
- Stakeholder relationship management – building consensus and improving relationships using evidence.
- Strategic ownership – aligning decisions with organisational strategy.
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.
What We Offer
- Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
- Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
- Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
- Life assurance scheme
- Give as you earn scheme
- Employee assistance programme (EAP)
- PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
- Enhanced family and sick pay
- Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
- Recognition Scheme
- Discounts portal to numerous retailers
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: MaPS00963
Close Date: 07/09/25
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