Lead Product Manager - Clinical

NHS Blood and Transplant; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Lead Product Manager to oversee a specific technology domain within Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation. You will manage a team and ensure that organizational and regulatory demands are met with effective solutions. Ideal candidates will have significant management experience, a nursing background, and strong communication skills. The role offers opportunities for flexibility, professional development, and impactful contributions to saving lives with the NHS.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

27 days annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Continuous learning culture

Qualifications

• Caring, expert, and quality-oriented mindset.
• Commitment to continual personal and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Ensure strategic direction of OTDT is realised.
• Ownership of product domain vision and demand management.
• Lead conversations with diverse stakeholders.
• Manage a team of up to 12 product managers.

Skills

Management and leadership experience

Agile environment

Stakeholder negotiation

Defining outcomes

Continuous improvement

User story definition

Product roadmap maintenance

Effective communication

Written and visual communication

Difficult communication

Relationship building

Education

Current Nursing registration

Masters’ degree or equivalent

Job description

Lead Product Manager- Clinical

Job Summary

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 a Lead Product Manager.

In this role, you will be responsible for a specific technology domain within our OTDT product centre. You will possess an excellent breadth of knowledge of the OTDT product landscape and be responsible for ensuring demand from our organisation and regulators are captured and appropriate solutions are prioritised and progressed into delivery.

Main duties of the job

The Lead Product Manager- Clinical within- OTDT is responsible for a specific technology domain (e.g.) within the OTDT product centre and therefore possess an excellent breadth of knowledge of the OTDT product landscape and the current OTDT clinical landscape, ensuring all demand from the business and regulators is captured and appropriate solutions are prioritised and progressed into delivery in line with the needs of the business.

The post holder will require a current Nursing Midwifery Council registration with a deep clinical understanding of the OTDT pathways. They will have expert product management skills and a technical understanding of the existing OTDT products and current architecture.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include ensuring the strategic direction of OTDT is realised (such as clinical digital safety and improved integration and access to data) through ownership of the product domain vision, demand management process, product solutions, product backlog, and integrated change roadmap by championing improved ways of working (e.g. Agile & DevOps).

You will be responsible for their technology domain at the product board which sits monthly with the purpose of controlling changes to OTDT products, and which has the authority to prioritise and improve demand items to progress to analysis, as well as approving the scope of each software release. The post holder will have excellent planning & communication skills leading conversations with clinical product users and advisory groups, architects, business analysts, developers and senior managers to ensure alignment.

In this post you will be a budget holder and directly line manage a team of up to 12 senior product managers, product managers & associate product managers.

This role will support the evolution of the OTDT Product Management Team by leading their technology product domain, managing the change and responsibilities of its members, ensuring alignment with the Central, Digital and Data Office (CDDO) Government Digital, Data Profession Capability Framework and digital clinical safety. The team are also critical to the successful delivery of highprofile change programmes.

About You

Experience and Knowledge

• Substantial management and leadership experience at a senior level including experience in managing & motivating people to deliver strategic & business objectives
• Extensive experience managing demand of new and existing products and services in an agile environment.
• Experience in negotiating and influencing a variety of stakeholders and third party contracted partners and suppliers.
• Expert in defining & communicating outcomes to be met by a product area and its related services, whether these are user needs, technical requirements or business-related outcomes.
• Experience in championing and implementing changes that foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Expertise in working with teams and stakeholders to define user stories with suitable acceptance criteria, key performance indicators (KPIs) and associated performance metrics and measures.
• Experience in defining and maintaining iterative product roadmaps, feature or development backlogs and release plans to meet clearly defined outcomes.
• Expertise in communicating ideas clearly and persuasively to diverse audience groups using multiple remote and face-to-face methods
• Expertise in producing clear written & visual communications and oral presentations about product- or service-related decisions and priorities
• Experience in delivering difficult messages (e.g. implications of delivery issues, risks or trade-offs) in an appropriate & professional way to senior stakeholders.
• Expertise in forming productive working relationships with colleagues at all levels and within a complex structure

Qualifications and Training

• Current Nursing registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Educated to a Masters’ degree level OR equivalent extensive training / experience in a relevant field
• Demonstrate commitment to own Continued Professional Development (CPD).

About Us

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 their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

What we offer

• NHSBT promotes flexible working opportunities where the role will allow.
• 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part‑time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and to 33 days after 10 years.
• NHS pension scheme. The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns) Further details and outline of benefits can be found at : www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk / pensions
• We’ve fostered a culture of continuous learning where colleagues are well‑led, engaged, and encouraged to grow. We support you in reaching your full potential, both in your current role and future career. Our Thrive program embodies our commitment to learning and development, offering a wide range of activities to support your personal and professional growth. It’s open to everyone at NHSBT, ensuring you have the resources to succeed and shine in your role.

To learn more, please see our recruitment profile, which provides a summary of the job description and person specification. This can be accessed via the link below, or by clicking ‘Apply’ if you are viewing this advert on another site.

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Sunday 30 November.

Interviews are anticipated to be held on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th December subject to confirmation.

The selection process for this position will include a video presentation stage followed by a final interview.

For informal enquiries please contact

Name : Charlotte Walker

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