Digital Product Manager - PSR1JP00104992

Contract Length: 6 Months
Location: South Coast (South Hampshire) or South Wales - (40% onsite, with occasional travel between sites)
IR35: In Scope
Day Rate: £875

We’re looking for experienced Digital Product Managers to join a major transformation programme, replacing a legacy business-critical platform with a suite of modern digital products.

Working within multidisciplinary agile teams, you’ll be responsible for defining product vision, managing priorities, and ensuring delivery aligns with both user needs and business objectives. You’ll play a key role in shaping products throughout their lifecycle, from Discovery and Alpha through to Beta and Live.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage products through Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live phases.
• Define product vision, scope and priorities, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Create and maintain product roadmaps.
• Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates and guidance.
• Champion user-centred design by leveraging research, data, feedback and insight to drive decisions.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog.
• Lead story definition, refinement and prioritisation to ensure work is delivery-ready.
• Balance research, technical investigation, feature delivery and continuous improvement activities.
• Sign off completed work and take accountability for product quality.
• Ensure products meet relevant quality standards and service requirements.
• Foster strong working relationships across multidisciplinary teams.
• Work closely with Delivery Managers to ensure delivery plans are achievable and blockers are resolved.
• Collaborate with Technical Leads and Solution Architects to ensure technical solutions support the product vision.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience managing digital products through Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live phases.
• Strong product management experience within agile delivery environments.
• Demonstrable ability to understand user needs and translate them into product priorities.
• Experience defining, owning and solving complex product challenges.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience managing and prioritising product backlogs.
• Ability to identify and evaluate effective delivery approaches and measure outcomes.
• Experience working to agreed MVPs and product goals.
• Good understanding of design, technology and data principles.
• Understanding of assisted digital support and user-centred service delivery.
• Ability to challenge assumptions and constraints constructively.
• Experience managing products through multiple stages of the product lifecycle.
• Knowledge of product adoption, service integration and benefits realisation.
• Experience establishing operational processes to support products and services.
• Ability to manage complex operational issues and drive resolution.
• Experience coordinating teams to investigate problems and implement solutions.
• Experience working closely with User Researchers and applying research findings to product decisions.
• Strong understanding of the difference between user wants and genuine user needs.