Full job descriptionLead Product Manager
£87,000 per annum
Bedford
Permanent
Hybrid Working

Ready to make a real difference? Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as our Lead Product Manager. This is your chance to play a meaningful role in helping people across the UK build stronger financial futures and to do it as part of a supportive, energetic team.

Why this role matters?

The Lead Product Manager for the National Pensions Dashboards Service (NPDS) provides strategic product leadership across the service, translating service strategy, user and industry needs, policy and regulatory requirements into a coherent product strategy and clear, prioritised outcomes. Working closely with the Service Owner & Platform Director, the Lead Product Manager sets product direction, establishes priorities and ensures investment and change deliver measurable public value while supporting the safe and sustainable operation of national pensions dashboards infrastructure.
They establish effective approaches for assessing and prioritising new demand and change, balancing value, risk, regulatory requirements, dependencies and delivery capacity. The Lead Product Manager translates priorities into clear outcomes and commissions work from internal teams, strategic partners and suppliers, working closely with Technology, Delivery, Architecture, Data and Commercial colleagues to ensure priorities are feasible, appropriately assured and delivered effectively.
The Lead Product Manager also provides professional leadership across the product management capability within NPDS, including Senior Product Managers, Product Managers and Data Product Management. They apply consistent standards for product strategy, discovery, road mapping, prioritisation, evidence-based decision-making and benefits measurement, while coaching teams and establishing clear decision rights, this uses the Product Management Standards. The role ensures product decisions are informed by user research, operational insight, service performance and data, and represents Product Management within service governance. As Pensions Dashboards transitions into live operation, the Lead Product Manager establishes a sustainable product operating model that enables continuous improvement, effective commissioning and controlled change.
The role is aligned to the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework:
The role supports a national training offer delivered to a wide network of external organisations and practitioners across the UK, designed to improve their understanding, skills, and confidence
Key Responsibilities
At this role level, you will: *Manage people and manage products
*Maintain the high level roadmap
*Be involved in a range of programme management activities
*Be involved in recruiting product managers at all levels and contractors
*Provide leadership in your programmes and across the local communities of practice
You will need to demonstrate the following experience;

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