Product Manager

We’re looking for an exceptional Product Manager to help us make a difference to our planet.

At the Met Office we embrace hybrid working. As our Product Manager we require you to be on site at our Exeter HQ on average once a month. You can choose to work more frequently in our state-of-the-art office if you’d prefer.  Our people are at the heart of what we do and we’ll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

Who we are

We are the Met Office. The UK national meteorological service. We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science to deliver extraordinary impact and benefit across the globe. Our work helps people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

Together:

• We’re a force for good – focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature – always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it – putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together – understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving – pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Find out more about our values – https://bit.ly/3fokaRD 

Job Purpose

We are looking for an engaging, enthusiastic and driven Product Manager to join our Product Management Team in Future Production.

Product Management is an established profession within the Met Office with an active Community of Practice group offering support and best practice. We’re a supportive and proactive team and work together to develop Product Management skills aligned to the Digital Data and Technology framework.

You will be responsible for product owner and product management tasks working closely with an expert science team to ensure new and existing weather data from our Supercomputer is available in the right formats and timescales for our downstream users.

You will be responsible for gathering product requirements focussed on user needs– ratifying them against Met Office strategy, the product vision and business milestones. before ‘translating’ into user stories for delivery. You’ll create a prioritised roadmap to ensure successful delivery against timelines.

As our Product Manager, your key responsibilities are:

• Develop an in-depth knowledge of users and their current and future needs, including understanding their workflow and the problems they need to solve through effective observation, communication and analysis.
• Develop current and potential customer domain knowledge and product expertise – translating into user stories for the science development team. 
• Develop and communicate a product vision, strategy and roadmap based on user needs and Met Office requirements.
• Maximise the value delivered – taking into account the balance between delivering business benefits and responding to end user needs.   
• Make strategic prioritisation decisions, influencing stakeholders using evidence, user insight to inform backlog prioritisation and future lifecycling needs.
• Manage dependencies of development on other directly/indirectly related systems or products.  
• Fulfil the Product Owner role, act as a key member of the delivery team to use Agile principles, adapt, challenge, reflect and improve ways of working, to deliver effective solutions.  
• Show high levels of collaboration, trust and innovation and contribute towards building a high performing team.
• Develop a basic understanding of the science landscape and the high level value stream in which this team operates in order to produce effective communications.

Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

1. Force for good – A strong user/customer focus with experience building trusted relationships and using that to improve products or services.
2. Live and breathe it – Practical experience of gathering user requirements and translating into prioritised deliverables and activities.
3. Expert by nature – A track record of taking ownership for key projects or activities and delivering them within a given timeline, identifying priorities and risks and recognising when to escalate to support decision making.
4. Better together – Proven experience of working in multi-faceted teams.
5. Better together – Evidence of strong communication skills including influencing and negotiating.
6. Keep evolving – Demonstrable experience delivering within Agile development teams.

Why join us?

We invest in our people to unlock their full potential. As our Product Manager, we will support you to develop and thrive to be the best you can be.  We champion positive physical and mental health in the workplace and are committed to being an inclusive organisation, providing a working culture that actively values an equal and diverse workforce. 

As our Product Manager, your total reward package is potentially worth up to £53,757.00 annually, which includes basic salary, potential corporate bonus and employer pension contributions.

Your starting salary will be £38,838.00. New joiners to the Met Office will start on the salary band minimum. Our 2022-25 pay award means the salary will increase to £41,725.00 from 1st April 2024, and you will be able to progress towards £45,257.00 over time.

Your package includes:
– Outstanding Civil Service Pension
– Flexible hours and homeworking
– Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave
– Cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment to support healthy, low carbon travel
– Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands

Job contact :

• Name : Resourcing Team
• Email : AskHR@metoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : AskHR@metoffice.gov.uk