BA / Product Manager (Public Sector)

IBM; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Sabbatical programs

Paternity leave

Maternity leave

Maternity returners scheme

Private medical cover

Dental & optical cover

Life assurance

Group pension via salary sacrifice

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Employee discounts

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Product Manager to champion product-led delivery across agile teams. You will own the backlog and roadmap, coordinate with developers, testers, architects, and vendors, and align work with a clear value case while maintaining stakeholder transparency.

The role emphasizes user advocacy, accessibility, and strong communication to drive delivery across the SDLC in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Manager is required.
• Knowledge of user stories, acceptance criteria, and use case modelling.
• Ability to map processes and analyze workflows.
• Experience with impact and gap analysis.
• Understanding of APIs, integrations, and system behaviour.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Champion a product-led delivery ensuring value case alignment.
• Create and maintain Product Backlog and Roadmap.
• Perform gap and impact analyses.
• Work with developers, testers, architects, and vendors to clarify requirements.
• Support Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning.
• Articulate product vision, strategy, roadmap, and success measures.
• Maintain transparency among stakeholders.
• Advocate user needs, including accessibility.
• Prioritize user stories.
• Input to technical, content and design solutions.

Skills

Product management experience

User stories & acceptance criteria

Process mapping

Impact analysis

APIs & integrations

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Introduction

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.

Introduction

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.

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.

We Offer

• 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.

Your Role And Responsibilities

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 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

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).