Product Manager

We are currently adopting a hybrid work approach available within the UK only. On-site collaboration will be required depending on project/team requirements. We envision that many of the team, and community activities will take place at our Edinburgh or Glasgow offices, for at least a part of each week. Contractual base can be Meadowbank House, Edinburgh, EH7 8AU and/ or Saint Vincent Plaza, Glasgow, G2 5LD.

A product manager defines, owns, and solve problems. They manage a product through discovery, alpha, beta, and live states. They support the Senior Product Managers and may line manage Associate Product Managers and support their professional development.  They have a deep knowledge of product management techniques and are developing expert skills.

Your main duties will include:

 RoS is changing its delivery model in key business areas from project managed to product managed, delivering a sustainable approach to a complex environment.

 Product Managers are:

• Responsible for one or more products within their area to ensure they deliver value, realise the intended benefits, and meet the roadmap objectives.
• Work with Associate and Senior Product managers with cross-functional teams to deliver outcomes.
• Focus on outcomes and maximising value delivered, whilst understanding what customers need; using an evidence-based approach to manage products and competing priorities.
• Possess strong stakeholder management skills, ideally developed through working in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Have highly developed analytical skills and arrive to conclusions by making evidence-based decisions that are data focused.
• Take a global view of their domain, bearing in mind the wider context of the work and how this impacts the overall user experience of the services their products support.
• Possess the ability to triage live issues and balance the need for adjustments against in-flight commitments.
• Build relationships with customers and stakeholders and place them at the centre of the decision-making process.
• Are aware of prioritising spend based on ROI and strategic intent.
• Participate in the product community of practice at RoS.
• Represent RoS at Scottish, UK, and international events, if required, specific to their areas of work.
• May have future line management responsibility in relation to Associate Product Managers.

 

Essential criteria – Your Skills and Attributes for Success

 Technical/Experience

• Previous experience in a Product Management role
• Knowledge of Agile and Lean practices

 Thinking Wider/Analysis & Making Effective Decisions (Cluster)

• Demonstrable success by prioritising work in a complex problem space using data to inform this prioritisation.
• Experience translating customer needs into product requirements.
• Understanding the wider context of the work and able to recognise and communicate risks and issues early.
• Accountable for ensuring “business as usual” for the products in their domain.
• Actively seek out feedback, especially when things have not gone as expected.
• Manage scope of product iterations, knowing what good looks like with a sharp eye for viability

 Leading & Communicating

• Communicate their product vision as a narrative with the customer at its heart.
• Collaborate widely to agree priorities, values, and outcomes of the problems in their space.
• Challenge accepted thinking constructively and are comfortable having difficult conversations.
• Think beyond their domain to consider the broader impact of their work and manage dependencies effectively.

 Collaborating & Partnering

• Identify and manage key relationships, especially with business sponsors, customer representatives, technology leadership and end-users.
• Facilitate communication between technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Bring people together to define problems as skilled negotiators break siloed thinking and build shared outcomes.

 Delivering Value for Money/Delivering a Quality Service (Cluster)

• Manage risk and value in a balanced way that is informed by the strategic objectives.
• Take ownership and accountability for the contents of the product backlog working closely with the Senior Product Manager
• Work with technical teams to manage Technical Debt, balancing the need for enhancements against the cost of maintaining existing products.

Alongside your salary of £42,353, Registers of Scotland contributes
£11,435 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

What can we offer you? – Benefits at RoS

 

• We are a welcoming and inclusive community that functions on supportive practices such as Agile Coaches, Business Analysts, UX specialists and more.
• We offer a stimulating working environment and strongly believe that a diverse team is crucial to achieving our mission!
• Our team is ambitious, acts with integrity and demonstrates commitment to progress and impact. We nurture talent and reward success.
• We work in an agile way, which is applied across the whole organisation.
• RoS offers a generous annual leave entitlement. Starting with 26 days of holiday plus 12 days bank holidays (for a total of 38 days). We reward your commitment to us by increasing annual leave by +1 day per year, for up to +4 additional days on your entitlement, bringing your allowance to 42 days.
• We operate a 36-hour working week and offer flexible working arrangements (up to 30 hours flexi per month).
• We offer office locations in Edinburgh & Glasgow and currently offer a hybrid working model, having established we can successfully work remotely.
• As part of the reward package, you will get access to:

–Civil Service pension at circa 27% contribution on the employer side.

-Service benefits, cycle to work scheme, subsidised gym memberships and retail discounts!

-Family friendly leave policies (Maternity at *1-year full pay, Paternity Leave/Shared parental Leave/Special Leave & more) *after 1 year of continuous service.

• We offer continuous training and development opportunities, including being able to attend industry events.
• A generous salary range with pay progression arrangements is in place.
• You will have access to external counselling and external advice.
• We are a Disability Confident employer.
• We hold an Investors in People – gold accreditation.
• We monitor equal opportunities and offer support where needed.

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Job contact :

• Name : Resourcing
• Email : resourcing@ros.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : resourcing@ros.gov.uk