Senior Manager - Product

Job summary

Working alongside our Head of Product and Lead Product Manager, the Senior Product Manager will play a critical role in the development and continued improvement of our products. You will be joining a growing team of friendly, talented & highly skilled people, who are committed to making positive change across the agency transforming Homes England into a modern, high-performing digital and data-enabled organisation.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for line managing Product Managers and Associate Product Managers, supporting and coaching them to build their capabilities.

You will work within a multi-disciplinary team supporting a business area within Homes England to ensure there is an overall view of the problems, priorities and how we develop user-centred solutions to meet business needs. The role will support the delivery of key strategic objectives including the delivery of trusted, high quality products as part of the Digital & Data Strategy.

Working with the other Product Managers you will contribute to an organisation-wide product strategy for Homes England and ensure the strategy for your service and products form part of a holistic approach to building and maintaining products to meet the overall needs of Homes England.

Job description

You will have experience of leadership within a product management function delivering user centred digital products, through which you have gained expert skills in strategic product ownership and the ability to contextualise problems and their potential solutions within the wider needs of the organisation.

You will have experience of working as a product manager leading a multidisciplinary team in delivering large and complex digital services through which you will have developed expertise to be able to define and create approaches, to coach others and to implement new ways of working.

You will have an expert understanding of approaches to digital delivery including user needs analysis, service design, prototyping, DevOps and continuous improvement, through which you can bring insight and expertise in how user needs are met by the business and apply strategic thinking in how to provide the best service for the end user.

You will have the proven ability to develop long-term vision and objectives for digital services, being discerning and disciplined in focusing on what is important and most relevant, and be able to develop this capability in others

You will have an understanding of new and emerging digital technologies and the opportunities they provide to improve the delivery of public services in the UK

Person specification

• Experience of leadership within a product management function delivering user centred digital products through which you have gained expert skills in strategic product ownership and the ability to contextualise problems and their potential solutions within the wider needs of the organisation.
• Experience of working as a product manager leading a multidisciplinary team in delivering large and complex digital services through which you will have developed expertise to be able to define and create approaches, to coach others and to implement new ways of working.
• Expert understanding and experience of approaches to digital delivery including user needs analysis, service design, prototyping, DevOps and continuous improvement, through which you can bring insight and expertise in how user needs have changed over time to ensure these are met by the business and apply strategic thinking in how to provide the best service for the end user.
• Proven ability to develop long-term vision and objectives for digital services, being discerning and disciplined in focusing on what is important and most relevant, and able to develop this capability in others
• An understanding of new and emerging digital technologies and the opportunities they provide to improve the delivery of public services in the UK
• Strong interpersonal, leadership and strategy skills within an agile environment delivering end user focused digital services.
• Ability to provide inspirational leadership to the team, to talk to our users in a clear and concise way, and to be and an advocate for Product Management both inside and outside of Homes England

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.*

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

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