Product Manager

Client: Consultancy offering services to the Public Sector

Location: Leeds, Birmingham or Newcastle - 60% onsite requirement

Day rate: £330 per day inside IR35

BPSS clearance eligibility is required

Start date - ASAP

Essential technical skills, knowledge and experience required:

Understanding of the tools, terms and principles used to deliver outcomes and how they can be adapted and applied to a variety of discoveries and test and learn work

Experience applying product management principles and methods to technology products

Experience creating and communicating product roadmaps, receiving and acting upon challenge from stakeholders

Able to ensure the team delivers outcomes and value aligned to strategic goals which may include undertaking delivery/analysis activities when needed

Experience defining/refining visions based on broad range of factors and considerations

Experience collaborating with the team, stakeholders, and users to create and prioritise/order technical/software product backlog items-based value, effort, and the overall strategy and business outcomes

Able to confidently communicate and justify prioritisation decisions to a broad range of stakeholders and users

Able to effectively manage stakeholder relationships and influence stakeholders across departmental and functional boundaries to secure support for priorities and gain vision buy-in

Able to work in a fast paced, evolving environment and utilise an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery

Able to communicate and explain complex technical product issues to non-technical stakeholders

Able to set direction and ensure colleagues and stakeholders have a clear understanding of objectives, activities and timeframes