Senior Product Manager (Ref: 21803)

Job summary

Job description

Senior Product Manager

Location: National*

Interviews: w/c 5th October

Grade: 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary**: £63,343 - £70,725 which may include an allowance up to £332 (London); £58,511 - £65,329 (National)

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Contract Type: 1 Year Fixed Term appointment** (with the potential for the roles to become permanent - subject to review).

Number of vacancies: 1

Vacancy number: 21803

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

**For existing Civil Servants - This role is offered as a detached duty/loan subject to approval from your home department. Successful applicants who do not have agreement from their home department to return at the conclusion of this role may be subject to MoJ's redeployment and redundancy procedures.

The Role

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Checkclearance. Please click on the link for details.

We’re recruiting for a Senior Product Manager here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Identity and Access Management team in Technology Services

This role aligns against Senior Product Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework

In Technology Services we deliver the core infrastructure, services and technologies that enable Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations (DISO) and End User Compute Services (EUCS). We design, build and support user-centred digital and technology services for the justice system: services that make a real difference to our staff, members of the public and their families who use them. We have a number of roles across different product spaces, ranging from build and iteration of transformed services to managing legacy services as we look towards decommissioning.

Identity and Access Management is transforming the way that staff and end users access MOJ information and systems. Our mission is to ensure that users have the right access to the right information at the right time – ensuring that we balance the user experience with best practice security principles. Through our strategy and continual improvement culture, we’re reducing cyber risk and enhancing trust in our digital infrastructure to make a real difference to staff and system owners. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager who is passionate about delivering quality services and can shape the bigger picture. In this role, you’ll influence IdAM’s Service Strategy, driving impactful change and helping us achieve our vision.

Senior Product Managers (SPMs) are responsible for overseeing the quality and value realisation of several products (or exceptionally, one complex product). Senior Product Managers take responsibility for the end-to-end, cross-platform user experience of multiple products. This will be across the product lifecycle from discovery, through development, delivery, continuous improvement and to product retirement.

SPMs also lead and manage people and support the development of our Product Communities. They ensure that all of the Product Managers under their leadership are supported, coached, developed and managed and so that they can reach their full potential.

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97%through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service),plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working arrangementsincluding hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.
• Employees are allocated10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-classconferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Key Responsibilities:

• The SPM has deep knowledge of Product Management techniques and is developing expert skills. The SPM is experienced in overseeing multiple products and has a proven track recordof managing products through the different stages of the product life cycle (products taken to beta/live). SPMs ensure the quality and the value of the work of Product Managers and the rest of the delivery team.
• The SPM manages the strategic roadmap, working with Delivery Managers to ensure that resources are aligned to the highest priority initiatives. They will be responsible forensuring that all changes to the strategic roadmap are captured, justified and communicated to stakeholders. This includes taking a leading role in governance forums such as IDAM Programme board and the Tech Services Service Alignment forums
• SPMs lead the assurance of scope, providing direction to meet user needs for multiple products & channels, aligned with strategy. They champion user needs with senior stakeholders, influencingand challenging Policy in relation to changes within the Product/service, to enable user requirements to be met.
• SPMs are strategic leaders, ensuring that the scope and direction of the development and continual improvement of several produ