Location: Hybrid: 1 day per week in the office required (London, Manchester or Bristol) whichever is closest.
The role:
A leading Central Government Institution are seeking a Contract Product Manager, for an in initial 9-month duration. In this role you will manage multiple products or a single product that is especially complex, high-risk or sensitive.
Experience & Requirements:
* Agile working. You know how to coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices, determining the right approach for the team to take and evaluating this through the life of a project. * DDaT perspective. You can demonstrate an advanced understanding of design, technology and data principles. * Experience of working within constraints. You can work with and challenge senior stakeholders. You know how to prioritise and mitigate constraints and can turn them into an advantage. You can adapt the approach depending on the constraints. * Life-cycle perspective. You know how to successfully lead teams through the full product life cycle. You can identify which tools and techniques should be used at each stage * You know how to coach others. You can contribute to the assessment of other teams, providing guidance and support as they move through the stages of the product life cycle. * Problem ownership. You know how to anticipate problems and how to defend against them at the right time. You understand how the problem fits into the larger picture. * Product ownership. You can start to define and create approaches. You know how to coach others. You can implement new ways of working. * Strategic ownership. You know how to get buy-in from the organisation. You can work with scant information and explain it in abstract terms. You can develop a strategy. * User focus. You know how to give direction on which tools or methods to use. You are experienced in meeting the needs of users across a variety of channels.
If you are available and interested, please apply in the first instance and you will be contacted to discuss the position further.