Product Manager - Public Sector (GDS)

IBM; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm in Manchester is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive innovation and excellence in digital product engineering. The role requires extensive product management experience and strong leadership skills to engage with diverse stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have a solid background in Agile practices and be capable of navigating complex product challenges. This position offers competitive benefits and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Training opportunities

Promotion opportunities

Work-life balance support

25 days holiday

Private medical cover

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product management, including defining product vision.
• Masterful proficiency in collaboration with diverse stakeholders.
• Proven track record in managing expectations and effective decision-making.
• Experience in multidisciplinary teams considering business/technical constraints.
• Strong foundation in Agile and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision, strategy, goals, and roadmap with stakeholders.
• Employ communication skills to engage with stakeholders effectively.
• Create and oversee the product roadmap and backlog.
• Lead teams in delivering products meeting public sector requirements.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and remove obstacles for smooth workflow.

Skills

Product management

Leadership

Agile practices

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

As a Senior Product Manager in Digital Product Engineering, you'll leverage your extensive product management and leadership skills to drive innovation and excellence within our organization. Join our team and contribute to the development of innovative digital products that drive business success. If you're passionate about understanding and solving complex product challenges and have a knack for creating digital products that maximize ROI, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Define and articulate product vision, strategy, goals, and roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring alignment with the broader public sector objectives.
• Employ excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage and collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders, including executives, project teams, functional managers, and specialists from various areas (digital, operations, policy, legal, etc.), to build consensus, manage expectations, and facilitate effective decision-making and prioritization.
• Create a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and oversee the ongoing evolution of the product roadmap and management of the product backlog.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team, integrating user needs and considering both business and technical considerations/constraints to drive product development.
• Lead the team in delivering products and services in line with the public sector's specific requirements and regulations.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, such as sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Remove obstacles and impediments that hinder the team's progress, ensuring smooth workflow and continuous improvement.
• Foster a culture of transparency, inspection, and adaptation within the team.
• Collaborate with other product owners, stakeholders, and scrum masters to ensure alignment and effective communication.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product management, including defining and articulating product vision, strategy, goals, and roadmap.
• Masterful proficiency in collaboration with a diverse range of stakeholders, including executives, project teams, functional managers, and specialists from various areas.
• Proven track record of building consensus, managing expectations, and facilitating effective decision‑making and prioritization.
• Experience in leading and working within multidisciplinary teams, considering both business and technical considerations/constraints.
• Proven leadership, communication, and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong foundation in Agile and DevOps practices.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and design patterns.
• Proficiency in data modeling and data management.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years.
• You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps practices.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and design patterns.
• Proficiency in data modeling and data management.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

About IBM CIC

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever‑changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long‑term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Benefits

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e‑learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognised certifications.
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us.
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year.
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and processes 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 programmes, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme.
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

Equal Opportunity

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.