Product Manager - Agile Delivery, Client-Facing (Defense)

Kainos; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is seeking a Product Consultant to own backlog maturity and guide features from inception to delivery. You will drive MVP thinking and clearly communicate its value to your team, the wider project and stakeholders.

You will lead agile ceremonies, plan and run workshops, engaging with diverse stakeholders to facilitate consensus and drive delivery. You will coach staff and contribute to shaping the product capability across initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in bespoke software delivery, operating as a part of an agile team working for an external customer
• Defence sector experience
• Active DV clearance
• Experience of the software development lifecycle, involved from analysis through to acceptance, launch and live operations
• Excellent facilitator of workshops, able to lead stakeholder groups to achieve focused outcomes
• Accomplished at modelling As-is and To-be business processes, able to present these to stakeholders and the team to ensure understanding and to achieve buy-in
• Experience in stakeholder management, comfortable challenging decisions when appropriate and tailoring collaboration and communication styles where necessary
• Responsible for the breakdown of an area of work from inception through to delivery, managing the team's backlog ensuring quality and maturity
• Responsible for the elicitation of functional, technical and non-functional requirements, translating these into user stories so they are easily understood across the whole team.
• Ability to use prioritisation techniques to refine the backlog and manage dependencies
• Proven ability to manage scope to meet the required MVP, ensuring value is delivered
• Ability to work within commercial constraints for example cost restrictions and project deadlines
• Excellent user story writing skills, ensuring quality and consistency of stories across the project
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships both inside and outside of the delivery team, comfortable collaborating on the breakdown of an area into deliverable pieces of work
• Experience working in a client/supplier relationship, sensitive to their needs
• Experience contributing to sales activities (e.g. working on bids, writing sales proposals etc.)
• Experienced in Agile methodologies and able to mentor those in your team as well as coaching our clients
• We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing junior members of your team and wider community
• Experience of explaining technical jargon to non-technical/commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• As a Product Consultant you will lead your team's backlog maturity and own features from inception through delivery
• Drive MVP thinking and communicate its value to team, project and stakeholders
• Lead agile ceremonies, encourage engagement and discussion, and plan workshops with diverse stakeholders
• Support the delivery of initiatives within the Product capability and coach junior staff
• Manage, coach and develop a small team, focusing on performance and growth

Job description

Kainos is seeking a Product Consultant to own backlog maturity and guide features from inception to delivery. You will drive MVP thinking and clearly communicate its value to your team, the wider project and stakeholders.

You will lead agile ceremonies, plan and run workshops, engaging with diverse stakeholders to facilitate consensus and drive delivery. You will coach staff and contribute to shaping the product capability across initiatives.