Senior Product Manager

HMGCC; Hanslope; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave rising to 30

Pension Alpha

Free onsite gym

Bike to work scheme

Free secure parking

Job summary

HMGCC in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead a portfolio of significant value and complexity. You will manage Product Managers and their teams, align product strategies with organisational priorities, and champion customer-centric outcomes that drive viable results for the business.

You will balance delivery and opportunity, coach and develop product managers, and partner with senior stakeholders to shape investment decisions while accepting trade-offs that maximise

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience as a product manager owning direction and outcomes.
• Strong track record with customers, keeping problems and needs at the centre of decisions.
• Proven track record managing a portfolio or a single complex product of significant value or complexity.
• Experience setting product strategy and making deliberate trade-offs that align teams around outcomes.
• Experience using discovery and evidence to influence strategy and investment decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of significant products and, where applicable, manage Product Managers and their teams.
• Align product strategies with organisational priorities and sequencing of investments.
• Coach and develop product managers to build capability across the team.
• Champion innovation while balancing near-term delivery with longer-term opportunities.

Skills

Product management

Portfolio management

Product strategy

Stakeholder management

Discovery & evidence

Coaching & mentoring

Leadership

Decision-making

Job description

Hours: This role is available full-time for 37 hours per week Monday to Friday Flexible or compressed working hours available. This role is based in the office.

Can you drive customer-centric solutions that deliver organisational value? Could you shape the direction of our future in an environment that really matters?

You’ll be part of a new team of diverse product managers embarking on a new and exciting career pathway in a fast paced and evolving profession. You will manage a product portfolio of significant value or complexity, leading Product Managers, Associate Product Managers and their own Product Teams. You will be accountable for ensuring the products in your area deliver meaningful outcomes for customers and viable results for the organisation.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will align product strategies with organisational priorities, ensuring teams work in step towards shared goals. You will create clarity by sequencing investment and resolving trade-offs. You may lead a team of Product Managers and Associate Product Managers or hold responsibility for a single product of significant complexity or organisational importance. In either case, you will build product capability in those around you, coaching and developing the product managers you work with.

You will champion innovation, enabling teams to experiment and explore new approaches while staying anchored to customer value and organisational viability. You will balance your portfolio, weighing near-term delivery against longer-term opportunities and managing the mix of innovation and sustainability.

You’ll gain a unique perspective of our business, working closely with a broad range of teams to proactively enable the delivery of our organisation’s vision.

More about you

To apply for this role, you will already have:

• Demonstrable, hands‑on experience of working as a product manager, owning product direction and outcomes.
• A strong record of working closely with customers, keeping their problems and needs at the centre of product decisions.
• A proven track record of managing a portfolio, or a single complex product, of significant value or complexity.
• Experience of setting product strategy and making deliberate trade‑offs that align teams around shared outcomes.
• A record of using discovery and evidence to influence strategy and investment decisions.

It would be beneficial if you also have one of the following (although these are not essential):

• A track record of building product capability in others, through coaching, mentoring, or developing product managers around them.
• Experience of operating credibly with senior leaders, influencing decisions with evidence rather than advocacy.
• A breadth of product experience across different products, domains, or contexts, bringing perspective that strengthens judgement and trade-offs.

Your personal skills

You will be someone who:

• Displays behaviours that promote a collaborative working environment which supports equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Is effective at engaging constructively and respectfully, challenging, influencing, and learning from a wide range of stakeholders.
• Represents product direction with confidence in leadership discussions, bringing forward risks, insights and opportunities.
• Creates an environment for experimentation and coach/mentor PMs to frame opportunities and validate solutions.
• Enjoys working with people with a diverse range of skills, prioritising customer problems and opportunities.
• Seeks out opportunities for experimentation, and positively engages in feedback, learning, change, and improvement.
• Recognises wider priorities in how they approach their work.

Putting your skills to use

Using your diverse range of skills within the product team, you will:

• Build and maintain rapport with a wide range of stakeholders, earning the right to explore and challenge senior thinking.
• Represent product direction with confidence in leadership discussions, bringing forward risks, insights and opportunities.
• Oversee execution across multiple products, guiding teams through trade‑offs and risks. Ensure delivery is tied to outcomes, not just outputs, and align team‑level work to business goals, communicating value delivered.
• Shape, inform, and assure organisational decision making.
• Create an environment for experimentation and coach/mentor product managers to frame opportunities and validate solutions.
• Translate organisational goals into clear product strategies.

What we offer

Now that we’ve explained a bit about what you will be doing, here’s what we can offer you:

• A positive, collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 after 5 years’ service.
• 8 Bank Holiday days off in addition to your annual leave.
• 2 ½ additional days leave (set dates through the year).
• Pension. Our Pension scheme is Alpha. It’s competitive.
• Paid overtime or time off in lieu.
• Flexible or compressed hours to support you to balance your life with your work.
• Paid parental and adoption leave and neonatal policy.
• Training. This can be anything from a ½ day internal course to a distant learning degree. If it’s relevant to your career, we will aim to support you.
• Opportunities for mentoring and coaching.
• Free secure parking and allocated parking for car shares.
• Affinity groups – whether you are a person with a disability, part of the LGBTQIA+ community and/or from an ethnic minority background, we provide an inclusive environment, support and a variety of networks for everyone.
• Free onsite gym, open 24 hours a day.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Multi-faith Prayer room. This is a quiet contemplation room for staff to use for prayer or reflection.
• 3 days paid leave a year to support a registered charity of your choice.
• Sports & Social Society. Whether its classic cars or baking, golf or crafting, we have a society for you. We offer regular subsidised theatre tickets and on‑site activities.
• On site nursery (subject to availability).
• New Joiners Loan*.

About HMGCC

We are HMGCC, the engineering specialists at the heart of the UK’s national security.

We work with the national security community, UK government, academia, private sector partners and international allies to bring engineering ingenuity to the national security mission, creating tools and technologies that drive us ahead and help to protect the nation.

We invest in our people, not only with training but also support throughout your career with us; to allow you to reach your full potential at work, as well as enjoy the work/life balance many aspire to.

To find out more about us and if we’re right for you, please visit our website.

Inclusion and diversity really matter to us. It's not just about numbers or visible differences.

HMGCC are committed to providing equal opportunities and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities or who are neurodiverse.

We’re not looking for any one type of person. We’re looking for talent from all different backgrounds to join our organisation, where we genuinely respect and value each other's differences, as well as our similarities. It makes us even better at what we do.

To find out more about our culture and inclusion and diversity, please visit our website.

We are proud to offer applicants who declare a disability or long‑term health condition the opportunity to apply through the Offer of Interview Scheme. We aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that best meet the minimum essential criteria for this position are offered an interview where practicable.

*We offer an interest free loan of up to £2,500, which is to be repaid in equal instalments over a period of 24 months, to support any costs incurred due to your change of employment.

Interviews for this role will take place week commencing 28th September 2026