Product Manager
As our Product Manager you will play a pivotal role in transforming and enhancing digital services that ensure citizens over the state pension age receive the support they need to live comfortably.
Pay between £52,412 - £63,517, plus 27.9% employer pension contributions worth over £17,000, hybrid working, and great work life balance. Includes flexi-time with up 3 extra days off a month.
Location
Your choice of; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. We work a hybrid model: some time in an office, some time at home.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year, to support millions of daily users.
In DWP Digital we aim to modernise end-to-end services and transform the user experience across the support we provide to citizens and DWP staff.
Together we'll build and maintain digital services that enable millions of people to access the help, advice and financial support they need.
You and your role
As a Product Manager working within our retirement portfolio, your role will be about ensuring people over state pension age can plan for and secure all the support they need to live a life without unnecessary hardship.
It's a high-profile product transformation area for us, with complexity.
You'll be managing one of our products relating to many million citizen records and the migration of those from legacy systems to a modern and sustainable profile.
You own and manage the products for our team so you will be responsible for making evidenced-based strategic and tactical product decisions and making key priority calls.
You will also be actively involved in developing the product strategy, owning the roadmap and communicating success to stakeholders and users. Sometime that will mean defending controversial decisions about your product, and using the relationships you've built to get things done.
Your Essential Skills:
- You have experience of creating and communicating a vision and gaining stakeholder buy in.
- Have worked with users to identify user needs and represent the user in all decision making.
- Have made effective decisions based on incomplete information using a range of suitable techniques.
- Experience of working with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams.
- Have experience of prioritising backlogs based on user needs, value and effort.
Details. Wages. Perks.
In return for your skills, we pay £52,412 - £63,517 per annum.
You'll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions to 27.9% - that could be worth over £17,000 in your pension pot each year.
Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days.
You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
- Flexible working including flexible hours and family-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Our Purpose
DWP maintain and modernise services that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, at key moments in their lives.
We want to be reflective of the diversity of the UK and we have a plan to be fully representative by 2025.
We are proud to be in the Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2022 list and a disability confident employer.
The role may not be easy at times, but you'll be well supported, and you'll get a minimum of 5 days learning and development annually to help you be at your best
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