BA / Product Manager (Public Sector)
IBM
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Job summary
IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Product Manager to drive a product‑led delivery across public sector clients. You will own the backlog and roadmap, align value with business needs, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver APIs, integrations, and impactful solutions.
The role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and analytical problem‑solving skills. Hybrid work options and career growth opportunities are offered within IBM Consulting’s Client Innovation
Qualifications
- Previous experience as a Product Manager
- User stories, acceptance criteria, use case modelling
- Process mapping and workflow analysis
- Impact and gap analysis
- Understanding of APIs, integrations, and system behaviour
- Strong communication and stakeholder management
- Analytical and problem‑solving skills
Responsibilities
- Champion a product‑led delivery ensuring that all work supports a clear value case.
- Creating and maintaining the Product Backlog and Roadmap, describing how the value and vision will be realised
- Perform gap analysis, impact analysis, and solution assessments.
- Work with developers, testers, architects, and vendors to clarify requirements.
- Support Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning and backlog refinement.
- articulate the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and measures of success
- Maintaining transparency among stakeholders
- Advocate User needs, including accessibility.
- Prioritise user stories
- Input to technical, content and design solutions.
Skills
Education
Job description
At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.
You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.
We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.
We offer:
- Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, 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 Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
A Product Manager : - Champion a product - led delivery ensuring that all work supports a clear value case, Collaborate with team and broader Stakeholders. They will creating and maintaining the Product Backlog and Roadmap, describing how the value and vision will be realised. The role supports delivery across the SDLC, helping ensure solutions meet business needs while aligning with technical constraints.
- Champion a product - led delivery ensuring that all work supports a clear value case.
- Creating and maintaining the Product Backlog and Roadmap, describing how the value and vision will be realised
- Perform gap analysis, impact analysis, and solution assessments.
- Work with developers, testers, architects, and vendors to clarify requirements.
- Support Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning and backlog refinement.
- articulate the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and measures of success
- Maintaining transparency among stakeholders
- Advocate User needs, including accessibility.
- Prioritise user stories
- Input to technical, content and design solutions.
None
Bachelor's Degree
- Previous experience as a Product Manager
- User stories, acceptance criteria, use case modelling
- Process mapping and workflow analysis
- Impact and gap analysis
- Understanding of APIs, integrations, and system behaviour
- Strong communication and stakeholder management
- Analytical and problem‑solving skills
This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).
IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
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Product Manager - Public Sector
132035
State / Province
Hampshire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester
United Kingdom
Hybrid
Data & Analytics
Regular
Professional
Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
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