Product Manager (Data Products)

Reed Talent Solutions; Bedford; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

Reed Talent Solutions in Bedford invites an experienced Product Manager to lead data product development for the Pension Dash-board programme and related initiatives. You will work with internal teams and external stakeholders such as the Department for Work and Pensions, The Pensions Regulator, and The Financial Conduct Authority to shape product delivery.

You will collaborate with BI analysts and UI/UX designers, prioritise product outcomes, and ensure governance and privacy considerations are

Qualifications

• Agile and Lean practices demonstrated in a working environment.
• Using user and stakeholder insights to define problems and improve outcomes.
• Understanding product life cycle phases and how needs vary across them.
• Describing how product management fits within multi-disciplinary teams and balances user and business needs.
• Creating and prioritising goals, making evidence-based decisions, and using product management methods.
• Communicating with stakeholders, building consensus, and improving relationships using evidence.
• Making decisions aligned to organisational strategy and explaining the importance of having a strategy.
• Identifying priority outcomes and the importance of baseline data.
• Describing the value of your work and identifying opportunities for reuse and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Manage the development and iteration of one or more data products or services.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand needs and manage expectations.
• Translate user needs and business goals into product outcomes.
• Maintain and communicate product roadmaps and backlogs.
• Collaborate with delivery managers, designers, analysts, engineers, and developers to deliver value.
• Use evidence and data to inform product decisions and prioritisation.
• Contribute to the wider product community.

Skills

Agile and Lean practices

Applying user-centred insights

Life cycle management

Product leadership

Product management

Stakeholder relationship management

Strategic ownership

Managing product outcomes

Creating value for money

Job description

Product Manager for data products supporting the Pensions Dashboard work, you will lead the development and continuous improvement of one or more data products or services. These products serve internal users and external stakeholders such as the

Department for Work and Pensions,

The Pensions Regulator,

The Financial Conduct Authority, and the wider pensions sector.

You will work within a multi-disciplinary team to ensure that products meet user needs and deliver value. You will report to the

Lead Product Manager (Data Products) and collaborate closely with stakeholders across the organisation and externally to shape product direction and delivery.

This role is aligned to the

Product Manager level in the https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/product-manager#product-manager.

The specific responsibilities of the role include:

• Support the development of data products that underpin the MoneyHelper Pension Dashboard, the Pension Dashboard Programme, and other related initiatives.
• Lead the iterative development of data products, ensuring alignment with user needs and organisational goals.
• Collaborate with BI analysts and UI/UX designers to improve the usability and accessibility of data products, primarily Power BI dashboards.
• Ensure data products are designed to be accessible and valuable to external organisations including the Department for Work and Pensions, The Pensions Regulator, The Financial Conduct Authority, and the wider pensions sector.
• Use product usage data to inform prioritisation and lifecycle decisions.
• Ensure legal, privacy, and governance considerations are addressed early in the product lifecycle, especially for externally accessible data products.

Key accountabilities

• Manage the development and iteration of one or more data products or services.
• Engage with stakeholders (internal and external) to understand needs and manage expectations.
• Translate user needs and business goals into product outcomes.
• Maintain and communicate product roadmaps and backlogs.
• Collaborate with delivery managers, designers, analysts, engineers, and developers to deliver value.
• Use evidence and data to inform product decisions and prioritisation.
• Contribute to the wider product community.

Skills & experience

• Agile and Lean practices (Level: Working)
  Demonstrate experience applying Agile principles and using Agile tools to support team delivery.
• Applying user-centred insights (Level: Working)
  Use user and stakeholder insights to define problems and improve product outcomes.
• Life cycle management (Level: Awareness)
  Explain product life cycle phases and how needs vary across them.
• Product leadership (Level: Awareness)
  Describe how product management fits within multi-disciplinary teams and balances user and business needs.
• Product management (Level: Working)
  Create and prioritise goals, make evidence-based decisions, and use product management methods.
• Stakeholder relationship management (Level: Working)
  Communicate clearly with stakeholders, build consensus, and improve relationships using evidence.
• Strategic ownership (Level: Awareness)
  Make decisions aligned to organisational strategy and explain the importance of having a strategy.
• Managing product outcomes (Level: Awareness)
  Identify and explain priority outcomes and the importance of baseline data.
• Creating value for money (Level: Awareness)
  Describe the value of your work and identify opportunities for reuse and efficiency.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Company: Reed Talent Solutions Salary: Not specified Hours: Full-time Location: Bedford, MK40 1SU Job type: Permanent Posting date: 20 Oct 2026 Closing date: 19 Nov 2026

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