Product Manager & Business Analyst - Hybrid Cloud & AI

IBM Computing; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Paternity leave

Maternity leave

Private medical

Dental & optical cover

Group pension via salary sacrifice

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Product Manager to champion a product‑led delivery across the SDLC, ensuring work supports a clear value case and aligns with technical constraints.

You will create and maintain the Product Backlog and Roadmap, collaborate with developers, testers, architects and vendors, and manage requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria with a focus on accessibility and stakeholder transparency.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a product manager.
• User stories, acceptance criteria, use case modelling.
• Process mapping and workflow analysis.
• Impact and gap analysis.
• Understanding of APIs, integrations, and system behaviour.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Analytical and problem‑solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Champion a product-led delivery ensuring that all work supports a clear value case.
• Creating and maintaining the Product Backlog and Roadmap, describing how the value and vision will be realised.
• Perform gap analysis, impact analysis, and solution assessments.
• Work with developers, testers, architects, and vendors to clarify requirements.
• Support Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning and backlog refinement.
• Articulate the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and measures of success.
• Maintaining transparency among stakeholders.
• Advocate user needs, including accessibility.
• Prioritise user stories.
• Input to technical, content and design solutions.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Requirements gathering

Analytical thinking

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Product Manager to champion a product‑led delivery across the SDLC, ensuring work supports a clear value case and aligns with technical constraints.

You will create and maintain the Product Backlog and Roadmap, collaborate with developers, testers, architects and vendors, and manage requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria with a focus on accessibility and stakeholder transparency.