Lead Product Manager - ODTD - (Non Clinical)

NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT; Wales; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service organization in the UK is seeking a Lead Product Manager to oversee the Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation product domain. This role involves managing a team of product managers, prioritizing demand from various stakeholders, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. The ideal candidate will possess expert product management skills and a deep understanding of relevant technologies. Competitive salary and opportunities for career growth are included.

Qualifications

• Responsible for the strategic direction of OTDT products.
• Line manage a team of up to 12 product managers.
• Participate in product board meetings to prioritize product changes.

Responsibilities

• Capture and prioritize demand from the organization and regulators.
• Lead conversations with architects and developers.
• Ensure alignment with the Central, Digital and Data Office framework.

Skills

Expert product management skills

Deep technical understanding of OTDT products

Excellent planning & communication skills

Championing Agile & DevOps

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 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.,

• require expert product management skills and a deep technical understanding of the existing OTDT products and current architecture. You will be responsible for ensuring the strategic direction of OTDT is realised such as 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)
• be responsible for their technology domain at the product board which sits monthly with the purpose of controlling changes 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. You will have excellent planning & communication skills leading conversations with architects, business analysts, developers and senior managers to ensure alignment.
• 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 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 and Data Profession Capability Framework. The team are also critical to the successful delivery highprofile change programmes.

  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.