Product Manager

IBM; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Introduction

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We Offer

• Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here
• A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
  
  

Your Role And Responsibilities

A Product Manager for this customer will:

• Champion a product-led delivery ensuring that all work supports a clear value case.
• Collaborate with the customers teams and broader stakeholders to articulate the product vision strategy and roadmap measures of success dashboards and performance framework.
• Create and maintain the Product Backlog and Roadmap describing how the value and vision will be realised.
• Maintain transparency among stakeholders, the product team, and Digital Platforms regarding quality and timescale expectations.
• Ensure the service delivers the policy intent.
• Advocate User needs including accessibility.
  
  

Preferred Education

None

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

**UK Citizen with 5 Years UK Residency**

A Product Manager For This Customer Will

• Champion a product-led delivery ensuring that all work supports a clear value case.
• Collaborate with HMRC’s team and broader stakeholders to articulate the product vision strategy and roadmap measures of success dashboards and performance framework.
• Create and maintain the Product Backlog and Roadmap describing how the value and vision will be realised.
• Maintain transparency among stakeholders, the product team, and Digital Platforms regarding quality and timescale expectations.
• Ensure the service delivers the policy intent.
• Advocate User needs including accessibility.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Prioritise user stories for each work sprint.
• Input to technical content and design solutions.
• Manage dependencies/constraints e.g. external interface development.
• Agree with HMRC when story outcomes are complete.
• Actively participate in HMRC craft communities sharing IBM best practices and thought leadership.
• The Product Manager will be pivotal across the product development lifecycle with evolving responsibilities.
• During the Discovery phase, they will drive the work of the multi-disciplinary team to identify user needs, potential solutions, own and prioritise the feature backlog, and lead the development of a Product Roadmap which will maximise value delivery and ROI.
• They will work closely with the development teams during Alpha and Beta to ensure that the value is delivered.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.