Defence Product Manager - Agile Delivery & Stakeholders

Kainos; Stockport; Vor Ort; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Kainos is seeking a Product Consultant to lead backlog maturity, drive MVP thinking, and deliver features from inception through to delivery. You’ll run agile ceremonies, plan workshops, and collaborate with stakeholders across the project team.

You’ll coach junior staff, manage client relationships, and contribute to sales efforts while ensuring delivery aligns with business goals in a defence‑focused, client‑facing environment.

Qualifikationen

• Experience delivering bespoke software in an agile delivery team.
• Client-facing consulting experience is essential.
• Defence sector experience is valued.
• Active DV clearance is required.
• Experience across the full software lifecycle from analysis to live operations.
• Excellent workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to translate requirements into well-formed user stories.
• Experience mentoring and coaching junior team members.
• Experience contributing to sales activities (bids/proposals).

Aufgaben

• Own team backlog maturity and manage features from inception to delivery.
• Drive MVP thinking and communicate value to stakeholders.
• Lead agile ceremonies and plan/run workshops with stakeholders.
• Coach and develop junior staff and support the delivery team.
• Support delivery of initiatives within the Product capability.
• Build trusted relationships inside and outside the delivery team.
• Break down work to deliver MVP within constraints.
• Translate functional, technical and non‑functional requirements into clear user stories.

Kenntnisse

Agile methodologies

Backlog management

Stakeholder management

User story writing

People management

Client-facing experience

Defence sector experience

DV clearance

Facilitation workshops

Commercial awareness

Jobbeschreibung

Kainos is seeking a Product Consultant to lead backlog maturity, drive MVP thinking, and deliver features from inception through to delivery. You’ll run agile ceremonies, plan workshops, and collaborate with stakeholders across the project team.

You’ll coach junior staff, manage client relationships, and contribute to sales efforts while ensuring delivery aligns with business goals in a defence‑focused, client‑facing environment.