Senior Product Manager (Ref: 17891)

Senior Product Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: 8 June

Interviews: w/c 22 June

Grade: Grade 7 (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary** (for more details, see below):

London : 63,343 - 70,725 (which may include an allowance of up to 332)

National: 58,511 - 65,329

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

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 1

Vacancy number: 17891

*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.

The Role

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Were recruiting for a Senior Product Manager here at Justice Digital, Data and Science , to be part of our warm and collaborative Data Platform Services team.

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

As a Senior Product Manager in the Data Platform Services team, you will be joining a multidisciplinary team of approximately 40 digital & data professionals that develop and support a suite of data-centric products.

These services support the MOJs data strategy and its ambition to become a truly data-led organisation by providing the critical infrastructure for 600+ data & analytical staff, enabling them to securely access, analyse, and explore data from across the department.

This is a specialised role for which previous experience of working in a data-centric role or with other data professionals is highly desired.

You will line manage Product Managers who are working on similar products and will be able to guide them and develop their potential based on your experience with data-centric products and services.

Millions of people every year interact with MoJ services and here at Justice Digital, Data and Science we play an important role in making the experience of all of our users simpler, faster, and better.

We have a clear vision - to deliver a world class justice system that works for all - and were looking for talented people to help us achieve it. Our MoJ strategy sets out our core priorities, this includes putting data at the core of our decisions and users at the heart of our services.

We are ambitious, and we need great product people to help us achieve the ambitions we have set out in our 2025 vision, delivering great outcomes through digital products. Were looking for talented, enthusiastic and passionate individuals who are excited by the challenge of designing digital public services and providing our staff with technology at least as good as they have at home.

Youll 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 Kings birthday .
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive worklife balance.
• Employees are allocated 10% 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-class conferences 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. Is experienced in overseeing multiple products and has a proven track record of managing products through the different stages of the product life cycle (products taken to beta/live). Ensuring quality/value of the work of Product Managers and the rest of the delivery team.
• Works with data professionals (data analysts/engineers/scientists) across the department to develop and improve our products in support of the organisation's data strategy.
• Leading the assurance of scope, providing direction to meet user needs for multiple products & channels, aligned with strategy. Champions the user needs with senior stakeholders, influencing and challenging Policy in relation to changes within the Product/service, to enable user requirements to be met.
• Being an active and visible leader, ensuring the scope and direction of the development and continual improvement of several products aligns with strategies (e.g. Govt, business etc) in delivery, acting as the escalation point (when needed), taking action to resolve any issues that delay delivery.
• Being an active and visible leader, supporting the PMs and working with the Lead PM in defining product strategy for all of their products, actively influencing and challenging strategy & stakeholders to enable user needs to be met.
• Leading by example, actively promoting and engaging in self-development; coaching and mentoring their product people and investing in their development to ensure they reach their full potential.
• Collaborating & partnering within the PM community, wider delivery team & MoJ colleagues, bringing them into the product vision, leveraging existing relationships to best effect; presenting difficult decisions/scenarios for decisions. Interacts with x-Gov product activity.
• Defining user journeys (where relevant) and the direction of user research, translating relevant findings with the team and sharing insight with the Product community.
• Ensuring that all products meet policy intent, acting as an advocate for the digital transformation of services and influencing policy change, within and outside of MoJ. Know the political landscape so you can answer questions/know what is needed, explain constraints or challenge them.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification

Essential:

• Product management: You can set the strategy and vision for your products, collaborating with others create a prioritised ...