Senior Product Manager

NHS National Services Scotland; Scotland; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

NHS pension scheme

Salary progression

Job summary

PSD Scotland Technology Service is seeking highly skilled Senior Product Managers to lead delivery of digital services across Scotland, aligning with national strategies. This remote-friendly role offers hybrid working arrangements and a 36-hour week under fixed-term terms.

You will drive multi-disciplinary teams, shape product roadmaps, and balance complex priorities while maintaining autonomy and a focus on public health outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience leading digital products or services in complex environments.
• Ability to communicate complex product concerns to stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills to balance priorities across national programmes.
• Experience planning across multiple streams with risk and dependency management.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary delivery teams and manage product staff.
• Define product direction at roadmap level and contribute to strategy.
• Drive delivery from inception to production and sustained operation.
• Collaborate with NHS Scotland stakeholders to align with Digital Health strategies.

Skills

Product leadership

Stakeholder comms

Analytical decision making

Multi-stream planning

Autonomy & roadmap

Job description

On 1 April 2026, NSS and NES became one national organisation, focused on continuity today and a stronger, more connected service for tomorrow.

As part of this transformation, NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) have joined to form a new organisation: Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland). This new organisation will play a pivotal role in supporting the renewal and ensuring the long-term sustainability of health and care services across Scotland

Flexible Location: PSD Scotland is a remote-friendly employer with staff based throughout Scotland. We support office-based and hybrid working arrangements. We welcome conversations about alternative working patterns—please get in touch during the application process to discuss.

Work Pattern: Fixed Term,Time, 36 hours per week

Fixed-term or Secondment** 31st March 2028

**For NHS applicants, an NHS secondment will be offered in the first instance. For non-NHS applicants, a fixed-term or secondment would be considered.

You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment.

Who We Are

PSD Scotland unites expertise from NES and NSS in a way that will allow us to accelerate national programmes to support the NHS to deliver better care, now and in the future.

We support staff with education and training, provide the tools and data that improve services, and run vital national functions such as procurement, logistics and blood, tissue and cell services.

The Opportunity

To enable delivery of the PSD Scotland strategy 2023-2026, and assist PSD Scotland Technology Service in our contribution to delivering against the Scottish Government Digital Health and Care Strategy and Data Strategy, PSD Scotland Technology Service is seeking highly skilled and motivated Senior Product Managers.

Do you want to play a role in leading the delivery of a programme of work?

Do you enjoy playing a lead delivery role in multi-disciplinary teams to bring technology solutions from inception to production and sustained operation?

Do you want to play a crucial role in delivering the PSD Scotland Strategy, Digital Health and Care Strategy for Scotland?

Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?

Working within the PSD Scotland Technology Service team you will have the opportunity to define and drive innovation that will directly inform the development of digital services for the general public, health and care professionals, and developers of digital health and care products.

Does this sound like you?

What We Love to See

Senior Product Managers offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:

• Experience of leading digital products or services in complex environments, ideally at scale
• Experience communicating complex product concerns to a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience of advanced analytical and judgement skills to balance competing priorities across national programmes, technical constraints and user needs, often working with incomplete or ambiguous information
• Experience planning and delivering work across multiple streams, including risk, issue and dependency management, and adapting plans in response to changing priorities
• Experience of acting with a high degree of autonomy, setting product direction at roadmap level and contributing to longer-term organisational strategy
• Experience in the development of new working practices, standards and service approaches including identifying efficiency opportunities, optimising use of resources and recommending service redesign
• Experience using data and insights to shape prioritisation, evaluate performance and inform strategic decisions
• Experience conducting or overseeing discovery, research and analysis in complex service environments
• Experience of leading multi-disciplinary delivery teams and line management of product staff and/or specialist team members
• Demonstrate honesty, integrity, care and compassion when dealing with others, utilising tact and persuasion skills when necessary
• Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workloads, to meet strict deadlines

Benefits Which Matter

As a valued employee of NHS Scotland, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Life-work balance - with opportunities for flexible working and hybrid working
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression (up to the maximum of the salary band) plus annual NHS salary scale review
• Annual Leave - 27 Days increasing in line with service plus 8 days public holiday
• NHS discounts and more

Diversity and Inclusion

Developing a successful national service for Scotland means considering the diverse needs, perspectives, and backgrounds of everyone in Scotland. We are focused on hiring the very best talent and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. Our aim to ensure that everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has a positive recruitment experience—regardless of the outcome.

We welcome applications from all under-represented groups, including racially minoritised people and disabled people. It is not essential to be in a Senior Product Manager role right now—you may be returning from a career break (e.g., maternity, paternity, caring) or coming from another field. Your experiences can bring a fresh perspective to our work.

If you are considering applying and would like to discuss the opportunity, any adjustments or alternative work patterns, please contact [e-mail] or [e-mail].

Next Steps

NHS candidates will be considered firstly on a secondment basis, and so are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current NHS employer at the earliest opportunity, ideally prior to application.

All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e‑mail.

In person OR online interviews (including a presentation) will take place on between 20th and 23rd October 2026. The presentation topic will be sent to candidates selected for interview.

For further information please refer to the Job Information Pack below.

Unless otherwise stated the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.

1. Please be advised that if you are successful in being offered the role following the recruitment process, you will be expected to attend the office prior to your start date to complete face-to-face pre-employment checks. If you require any adjustments to support this, please let us know.
2. To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licensed Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

If you have any queries regarding the NHS Scotland National Recruitment Portal or the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to contact our recruitment partners, the East Region Recruitment Service, at: [e-mail].