Senior Product Manager - Health

Hippo Digital; Liverpool; Presencial; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Pension scheme

25 days holiday + UK public holidays

Perkbox access

Critical illness cover

Life assurance

Descripción de la vacante

Hippo Digital is recruiting a Senior Product Manager to lead health sector initiatives, shaping vision and guiding cross-functional teams to deliver high-value outcomes for public health clients.

You will champion user-centred design, navigate NHS policy and security constraints, and drive team performance across Discovery to Live phases.

Formación

• Lead a team of specialists and guide them to deliver value.
• Evidence-based decision making to keep users/patients at heart.
• Build consensus among diverse perspectives, with decisive leadership.

Responsabilidades

• Drive measurable outcomes and deliver value for health clients.
• Inspire and mentor colleagues by clarifying client needs and context.
• Provide team leadership and shield the team from distractions to enable delivery.
• Engage stakeholders to translate vision into a roadmap and prioritised backlog.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team delivering services for high-profile health clients.
• Leverage AI and emerging tech to improve quality and execution.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Stakeholder management

User-centred design

Agile coaching

Health sector knowledge

Descripción del empleo

About The Role Hippo Digital is recruiting for Senior Product Managers to join our growing Health Sector.

As a product leader within our Health Sector, you will be instrumental in shaping vision, inspiring teams, and transforming client ambitions into impactful results.

You’ll champion strategic product direction, empower multi-disciplinary teams, and drive the delivery of high-value outcomes that make a real difference.

This role offers a unique opportunity to improve public health outcomes while navigating the complexities of the NHS and wider healthcare landscape.

As a Senior Consultant, specialising in Product, you’ll already be an expert in your field, in agile and a confident coach.

You will bring proven experience working across health and care organisations, such as NHSE, DHSC, NHSBSA, ICBs, Primary or Secondary Care.

You’ll also be a leader of people and teams and an advocate for user-centred design approaches.

Hippo will provide exciting opportunities to share your expertise with, and influence, clients and team members and to continue to develop you as a leader.

Your role in a nutshell:

Driving measurable outcomes and delivering true value for our clients.

Inspiring and guiding your colleagues by supporting them in understanding the client's needs, explaining the broader context and getting buy-in.

Provide team leadership and protect your team from unwanted distraction where possible, allowing them to focus solely on delivery.

Engage with stakeholders to create a project vision and translate into a roadmap & prioritised backlog.

Communicating with an extremely diverse group of people, including experts in their field.

Lead diverse a multidisciplinary team delivering work on behalf of our high-profile health and care clients

Leveraging AI and emerging technologies to enhance delivery, improve quality, and optimise execution.

About the Candidate: People are at the centre of everything we do.

We’re a diverse and close-knit community united by a love for solving complex problems for our public-sector clients and their patients.

We take a common-sense approach to getting things done, learning from experience and adapting as we go.

We don’t need you to have any certificates or qualifications, but we do need to be confident that you have the ability to:

Lead a team of people that are specialists in their field

Identify and use evidence of value to drive decision-making to ensure the user and patient are at the heart of the team

Build consensus amongst people with different perspectives, with the confidence to make decisive decisions when consensus is not possible

Bridge the gap between stakeholders and the team so the team can remain focused on delivery

Find pragmatic and creative ways to balance constraints such as policy and security in order to prioritise work and meet user needs.

Perform well in a wide variety of delivery disciplines (Scrum, Kanban)

Communicate confidently and credibly on behalf of the company and the client.

Lead workshops and group exercises, remotely and in-person.

Build product and user centric capabilities in others, helping colleagues and clients know what to do when you are not around.

Apply GDS (Government Digital Service) and NHS Service standards, particularly the Service Manual and Service Assessments.

Navigate complex regulatory environments, including patient data privacy and clinical safety standards.

Deliver services through the Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live phases as per GDS guidelines.

Leverage experience working in or across health and care organisations (e.g.

NHS, DHSC, NHSBSA) to drive service integration and improved patient outcomes About The Company Alongside working with some of the most talented people out there and on-top of a competitive salary, which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%) - 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
• Private health cover
• Additional company pension contributions
• Additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
• Charity contributions
• Tree planting Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone.

We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving.

Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.

We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture.

We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant.

Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

Hi, we’re Hippo At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact.

We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering.

We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations.

Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.

We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around.

We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach.

This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.

Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society.

Have a look through our Website at Our Story & Purpose, Our Culture & Values, Case Studies and Our Solutions & Services to find out some more!

Hippo Locations We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London and Bristol.

We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices.

Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on-site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel and working on one of those sites at least 2 days per week.

We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8,000 (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.

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