BA / Product Manager (Public Sector)

International Business Machines Corporation; Abbots Worthy; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical

Group pension plan

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK's FutureNow division seeks a product manager to champion product-led delivery, maintaining backlog and roadmap while aligning value with business and technical constraints.

You'll collaborate with developers, testers, architects, and vendors, support Agile ceremonies, and articulate the product vision and success metrics. A strong focus on user needs and accessibility is expected, with traditional benefits and flexible working practices.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Manager.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Familiarity with APIs, integrations, and system behavior.

Responsibilities

• Champion product-led delivery with a clear value case.
• Create and maintain backlog and roadmap.
• Support SDLC delivery aligned with business needs and technical constraints.
• Clarify requirements with developers, testers, and architects.
• Assist agile ceremonies like sprint planning and backlog refinement.
• Articulate product vision, strategy, and success metrics.
• Maintain transparency with stakeholders and advocate user needs.
• Prioritise user stories and value for releases.

Skills

Product backlog management

Stakeholder management

Agile ceremonies

User stories

Requirements clarification

Tools

APIs

Integrations

System behavior

Job description

A Product Manager : - Champion a product - led delivery ensuring that all work supports a clear value case, Collaborate with team and broader Stakeholders. They will creating and maintaining the Product Backlog and Roadmap, describing how the value and vision will be realised. The role supports delivery across the SDLC, helping ensure solutions meet business needs while aligning with technical constraints.,

• Champion a product - led delivery ensuring that all work supports a clear value case.
• Creating and maintaining the Product Backlog and Roadmap, describing how the value and vision will be realised
• Perform gap analysis, impact analysis, and solution assessments.
• Work with developers, testers, architects, and vendors to clarify requirements.
• Support Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning and backlog refinement.
• articulate the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and measures of success
• Maintaining transparency among stakeholders
• Advocate User needs, including accessibility.
• Prioritise user stories
• Input to technical, content and design solutions. Previous experience as a Product Manager
• User stories, acceptance criteria, use case modelling
• Process mapping and workflow analysis
• Impact and gap analysis
• Understanding of APIs, integrations, and system behaviour
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Analytical and problem-solving skills At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you'll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth. We invest heavily in you--supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.