M365 Senior Product Manager

Public Sector Resourcing, managed by AMS; United States; Remote; USD 111,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Cabinet Office is seeking an experienced M365 Senior Product Manager for a 6-month remote contract with occasional visits to London, Manchester, Bristol, York or Glasgow. SC Clearance is essential; candidates must be willing and eligible to undergo checks.

As we establish the M365 Centre of Excellence, you will guide strategic direction for stabilising the core platform, rolling out productivity apps, and unlocking automation via the Power Platform, grounded in user-centric design.

Qualifications

• Significant, proven experience managing and driving product strategy for enterprise-scale M365 deployments.
• Strong background working directly with User Researchers to translate data into actionable user stories and roadmaps.
• Deep understanding of the Power Platform ecosystem and governance models.

Responsibilities

• Define the product strategy and feature roadmap for the M365 core platform and productivity applications.
• Collaborate with User Researchers to synthesize feedback and plan roadmaps accordingly.
• Assess the M365 platform and define a phased plan to address technical debt and security gaps.
• Define governance prerequisites and build an opportunity map for automating business processes using Power Platform.

Skills

M365 Expertise

User-Centric Product Management

Power Platform Proficiency

Tools

Power Platform

Job description

On behalf of the Cabinet Office, we are looking for an M365 Senior Product Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 Month remote contract with occasional visits to London, Manchester, Bristol, York or Glasgow.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

Description:

As we establish our M365 Centre of Excellence (CoE), we require a highly experienced M365 Product Manager on a temporary contract. This role will guide the strategic direction for stabilising our core M365 platform, rolling out productivity applications, and unlocking the automation potential of the Power Platform, ensuring all initiatives are grounded in user-centric design.

The M365 Product Manager will leverage deep subject matter expertise to align technical capabilities with user needs.

The core scope includes:

• Core Platform & Productivity Rollout: Defining the product strategy and feature implementation roadmap for the M365 core platform and the wider suite of M365 productivity applications.
• User-Centric Roadmap Planning: Collaborating extensively with the User Researcher to synthesise user feedback, create detailed user stories, and dynamically plan and adjust roadmaps based on these insights.
• M365 Platform Stabilisation: Assessing the newly deployed M365 platform and defining a phased strategy to resolve technical debt and security gaps.
• Power Platform Foundation & Automation: Defining governance prerequisites and engaging with stakeholders to build an opportunity map for automating common business processes using the Power Platform.

Key Deliverables

• Holistic M365 & Productivity Roadmap: A comprehensive, user-validated implementation roadmap covering M365 platform stabilisation, core platform features, and the rollout of productivity applications.
• Validated User Story Backlog: A prioritised backlog of user stories and epics, co-created with the User Researcher to ensure platform developments directly address end-user pain points and productivity goals.
• Power Platform Foundational Plan: A strategic roadmap outlining the deployment of Power Platform environments, governance, and security controls.
• Process Automation Opportunity Map: A prioritised matrix identifying business processes ripe for automation using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Demonstrable M365 Expertise : Significant, proven experience managing and driving product strategy for enterprise-scale M365 deployments, core platforms, and productivity suites.
• User-Centric Product Management: Strong background working directly with User Researchers to translate qualitative and quantitative data into actionable user stories and strategic roadmaps.
• Power Platform Proficiency: Deep understanding of the Power Platform ecosystem and governance models.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, the Cabinet Office encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, the Cabinet Office welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role‑specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".