Lead Product Manager

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliversome ofthe UKs mostimportant#tech4good projects making the world a smarter safer greener and healthier place.

Youlljoin a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the mostexcitingdigital transformation challenges.

At a certifiedGreat Place to Workyoullexperience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

Founded in 1992 we are a successful growing International digital transformation delivermulti-Queens Award for innovationwinning platforms and servicesthat support large-scale digital digital data and technology solutions are used byglobally recognised public and private sector brandsoperatingin a variety of sectors including Civil Defence Healthcare Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management and Digital Democracy.

About the role

As aLead Product Manager you will playa central rolein shaping how we define design build and deliver products and digital solutions across the will drive the successful delivery ofdigitalproducts and services for clients ensuring they are well-designed evidence-based and aligned touser andbusiness needs.

You willbe responsible forunderstanding user and client needs translating them into clear propositions and delivery plans and guiding multi-disciplinary teams throughout the full lifecyclefrom discovery and strategy through to deliveryand continuous improvement.

You will bringexpertiseacross a broad mix of user-centred design agile product delivery software engineering and stakeholder managementensuring the solutions we create are grounded in user needsfeasibleto build and aligned to client and organisational goals.

At Informed Solutions we are committed to the growth and development of our people. Youll benefit from structured career progression accredited training and opportunities to gain new skills and certifications all within a supportive environment that encourages curiosity continuous learning and the chance to take on increasingly complex and impactful projects.

Role Responsibilities

Client Engagements

• Provide product leadership across multi-disciplinary client delivery teams ensuring clear direction and alignmentwith client needs to deliverexceptional digital products

• Leadtheshaping digital products or services providing the clarity and direction teams need to deliver effectively

• Ensure thatdigital products or servicesare user-centred well-architected aligned to relevant standards (Government Digital Service (GDS) Service Standard accessibility security responsible AI)and take advantage of innovative techniques and technologies

• Work closely with Delivery Managers and Engagement Leads to ensure delivery plans are realistic transparent and aligned tobusiness/uservalue.

• Support clients in takingevidence-basedproduct roadmap andprioritisation decisions throughout delivery balancing constraints risk and client outcomes.

• Ensure thatdigital products or servicesdelivered to clients meet user needs and deliveranticipatedbusinessvalue.

• Build strong trusted relationships with client and partner counterpartsrepresentingproduct thinking and aligning delivery to client outcomes.

Product and Delivery Management Discipline

• Drive innovation and best practice adoption across theProduct Managementcommunity motivating and empowering domain practitioners to create a positive and creative culture.

• Support the growth of ourProduct Managementcapability via recruitment masterclasses training and curriculum development.

• Provide Practitioner Coaching andproduct managementleadership to guide the development of otherproduct managers.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Leading product management in multi-disciplinary applying best-practice agile and user-centred design methods.

• Leading product management activities within digital product or digital service delivery environments.

• Shapingproduct/service roadmaps backlogs and release plans ensuring they reflect user insight feasibility value and constraints.

• Working with multidisciplinary teams across engineering design data and delivery to shape and deliver digital solutions that meetbusiness anduser needs.

• Applying agile delivery methods in complex multi-stakeholder contexts ensuring alignment between product vision client expectations and deliveryfeasibility.

• Engaging with senior client stakeholderssettingandmanaging expectations influencing decision-making and ensuring alignmentwithstrategic goals.

• Ensuring successful delivery ofdigital products or services from discovery through to deployment adoption and ongoing optimisation.

• Balancing competing priorities across user value technical feasibility business outcomes risk and operability.

• Owning the definitionand monitoringof clear and actionable requirementskeyperformanceindicatorsand benefits realisation measures

• Translating complex needs into epics user stories acceptance criteria and non-functionalrequirements.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Understanding of cloud technologies modern software engineering practices and DevOps principles

• Experience working withintheGDS orsimilarly structured digital governance and delivery frameworks.

• Exposure toAIdelivery engagements responsible AI governance or data/analytics-heavy product development.

• Experience managing products/services with strong security compliance and audit requirements (e.g. data protection system accreditation cyber maturity)

• Experience mentoring product managers product ownersor junior practitioners.

Key abilities that are necessary for success

• Able to work effectively in environments where you can adapt to innovative practices involving uncertainty change and agile working.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and your time so you can deliver high-quality work within deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to respect and accept different perspectives and disagreement work collaboratively in diverse teams and maintain positive working relationships.
• Good judgement and decision-making in complex environments where uncertainty ambiguity and risk must be collaboratively managed by working supportively alongside others.
• Good communication skills including clear constructive written outputs and measured respectful verbal delivery.

We work in a fast-paced ever-evolving innovation and problem-solving workplace environment where no two days are the same. This requires you to have the foundations of personal resilience professional adaptability and flexibility in working alongside others with a positive mindset.

We appreciate that this workplace culture and the level of variety wont suit everyone. However after significant consultations with colleagues at all levels we understand that these are the fundamentals of success in undertaking the complex innovation work which is the DNA of Informed Solutions.

These shared foundations are important to team cohesion performance and mutual personal support.

As colleagues we thrive in successfully problem solving together to deliver real-world impact; and value the variety of challenges and opportunities to learn grow and progress on a personal and professional level.

Benefits

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

• We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need including 24/7 GP services mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Monthly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culturethat is diverse inclusive rewarding and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation Excellence and Integrity by thinking about things differently always doing our best and acting in good faith at all times.

Were a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems particularly where place location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflectshow we go about our work the type of work that we choose to do and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social environmental and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.

Required Experience:

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