Associate Product Manager

NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT; Wales; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A key national health service organization in the UK is looking for an Associate Product Manager to support the safe delivery of business and technology product changes. You will utilize your product management skills and technical understanding to ensure solutions meet business needs. Collaborating closely with product managers, you will conduct user acceptance testing, support strategic direction, and contribute to the development of training. Join a dedicated team making a difference in organ and tissue donation and transplantation.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of the OTDT technology landscape.
• Ability to conduct user acceptance testing and training.
• Support the strategic direction of OTDT technology.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of business and technology product change.
• Provide specialist knowledge across the product centre.
• Champion improved ways of working, e.g. Agile.

Skills

Product management skills

User acceptance testing skills

Technical understanding of OTDT technology products

Job description

At NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) we are a kind of service that saves and improves lives. We have a unique opportunity to join our service within Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation (OTDT) as an Associate Product Manager.

As an Associate Product Manager, you will be responsible for actively supporting the safe and effective delivery of business and technology product change, into the live service environment by providing critical specialist knowledge of the Business and technology within their product domain to support the entire software delivery lifecycle (requirements, design, development & testing).

Main duties of the job

In this role you will possess knowledge of the OTDT technology landscape, ensuring appropriate solutions are delivery in line with the needs of the business.

You will have product management skills; user acceptance testing skills and have a technical understanding of the existing OTDT technology products and current architecture.

You will support the strategic direction of OTDT technology through providing product specialist knowledge across the product centre, conducting user acceptance testing and training, whilst supporting Product Managers to maintain the product vision for integrated change roadmap and will champion improved ways of working (e.g. Agile).

The postholder will also provide subject matter expertise to other domains or projects across the business where critical change to OTDT technology is involved and therefore a dependency is placed on the product management teams product specialist knowledge. (e.g. NTXD, Donor Path Family Changes). You will deliver specialist training in a complex and safety critical context and will contribute to design such training for others to deliver.

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary—donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart

They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in our career, too.