Associate Product Manager – UK Health Security Agency – SEO NEW

Government Digital & Data
Location

Hybrid working based at any of our core HQs in Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London Canary Wharf.

About the job Job summary

We are looking for two Associate Product Managers to work within the Digital Development and Operations Team, which is part of UKHSA Chief Data Officer (CDO) Group.

The CDO Group mission is to enable UKHSA to make the nation’s health secure through safe and innovative digital capabilities and by the transformation of public health data, analysis, insight and surveillance. In Digital Development and Operations, we do this by delivering services which meet and maintain the Digital Service Standards . We proactively partner, across UKHSA and beyond, to influence, design and deliver digital and technology products and services that underpin Agency objectives, and provide tangible, valued business and citizen health outcomes.

Job description

The Associate Product Manager is a key voice of product across Digital Development and Operations. They are embedded within the team, and it is their responsibility to create and prioritise requirements and ensure that the best product is developed to meet user needs. As an Associate Product Manager, you will help define, explain, and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders. You will plan the work for multi-disciplinary teams helping to build out and deliver a product roadmap. Throughout the development of the product, you will be accountable for the quality of the product, ensuring that it meets both business and user needs.

The Associate Product Manager is responsible for features, components or part of a product, contributing to the delivery of value. You will be a decision maker within the team, often working with a range of colleagues to make collaborative decisions but with clear responsibilities for planning, decisions on user stories content and completion, acceptance criteria and prioritisation of the backlog.

As an Associate Product Manager, you will:

• Work with Senior Product Managers across a portfolio to advocate for user needs throughout the organisation, prioritising delivery of greatest value.
• Manage a smaller product with support, or a subset of features of a larger product.
• Be part of one or more multi-disciplinary agile delivery teams to deliver excellent new products and iterations to existing products to meet user needs.
• Work with key stakeholders and a wide range of business colleagues to identify needs and manage dependencies across the organisation.
• Contribute to and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain a high-level roadmap that helps users, colleagues and partners understand the direction and priorities of the service.
• Manage and refine the product backlog to ensure work is prioritised correctly and supports delivery of the product roadmap and wider team priorities
• Work collaboratively with the team and users to create user stories with clear acceptance criteria and validate them before development.
• Represent the service to meet governance commitments including Digital Service Standard assessments.
• Be actively involved in the Product Community of Practice and partner and user communities to promote the department’s principles and foster a collaborative approach to solution delivery and engagement.

In addition to the key responsibilities above this role will:

• Require adherence to all UKHSA Policies and Procedures.
• Contribute to the delivery of corporate goals and objectives.
• Support corporate service activity as set out in the Corporate Services Standard Operating Procedures.
• Perform any other duties that may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The above is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of these roles.

They will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required. The job descriptions and person specifications may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the organisation.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• Agile working: is aware of agile methodology and how to apply the agile mind-set to all aspects of their work.
• Lifecycle Perspective: understands the different phases of product delivery and is able to contribute to, plan or run these.
• Operational Management: understand the operational processes of running and maintaining a product or service.
• Problem Ownership: understands and identifies problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution.
• Product Ownership: captures and translates user needs into deliverables.
• Strategic Ownership: focuses on outcomes, not solutions. Gets the organisation and team to buy-in.
• User focus: understands users and can identify who they are and what their needs are based on evidence.

Desirable Criteria

• Previous experience of Government digital and Digital Service Standards.