Product Manager

Data Product Manager

57,000 per annum

Bedford

Permanent

Hybrid Working

Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Data Product Manager. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact by shaping, delivering and continuously improving data products that support the National Pensions Connection Service, the Pensions Dashboard and MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard programmes. You will be responsible for helping turn complex service, reporting, analytics and performance needs into trusted data products that enable informed decision-making across the pensions dashboards ecosystem, delivering value for internal users and key external stakeholders including senior leaders, regulators, government departments, delivery partners and dashboard providers.

You will lead the product direction for data products that provide a single, trusted and authoritative view of service performance. Working closely with Data Engineering, BI, Product, Operations and external suppliers, you will define user needs, shape roadmaps and backlogs, prioritise delivery, and ensure reporting, analytics and monitoring capabilities are robust, scalable and aligned to organisational and regulatory requirements. A key aspect of the role will be applying strong product management discipline to data and insight capabilities: ensuring products are evidence-led, user-centred, governed appropriately and designed to support service performance, continuous improvement, regulatory reporting and benefits realisation across a piece of national digital infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

Role Overview

The Data Product Manager will report directly to the Lead Data Product Manager within the Technology & Change directorate within the Data and Analytics team. In this role, you will be responsible for:

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Development: Lead iterative development of data products aligned with user needs and organisational goals.

• Collaboration: Work closely with BI analysts, UI/UX designers, delivery managers, and engineers to enhance usability and accessibility.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, including those with varying levels of technical understanding.

• Adaptability: Be comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving requirements in a fast-paced environment.

• Governance & Compliance: Address legal, privacy, and governance issues early in the product lifecycle.

• Evidence-Based Decisions: Use product usage data and evidence to guide prioritisation and lifecycle decisions.

• External Value: Ensure products are accessible and valuable to external bodies including government and regulators.

• Product Management: Maintain roadmaps and backlogs; translate user needs into product outcomes.

• Community Contribution: Actively contribute to the wider product community at MaPS.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Product management experience managing data products or services such as business intelligence dashboards.

• Agile and Lean practices applying Agile principles and tools to support delivery.

• Applying user-centred insights using stakeholder insights to improve product outcomes.

• Creating value for money identifying opportunities for reuse and efficiency.

• Life cycle management understanding product lifecycle phases.

• Managing product outcomes identifying priority outcomes and using baseline data.