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Lead Product Manager
Location: National*
Closing Date: 14th April
Interviews: w/c 29th April
Grade: Grade 6
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £70,303 - £80,475 (which may include an allowance of up to £10,172) National: £66,314 - £75,810
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy number: 85937
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
Were recruiting for five Lead Product Managers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Justice Digital teams.
This role aligns against Lead Product Manager role from the Government Digital and Data Framework
Millions of people every year interact with MoJ services, and here at Justice Digital we play an important role in making the experience of all of our users simpler, faster, and better.
We have a clear vision - to deliver a world class justice system that works for all - and were looking for talented people to help us achieve it. Our MoJ strategy sets out our core priorities, this includes putting data at the core of our decisions and users at the heart of our services. We are ambitious, and we need great product leaders to help us achieve the ambitions we have set out in our 2025 vision, delivering great outcomes through digital products.
LAA digital works to deliver swift access to legal aid for those who need it, and efficient payment to providers of those services. We aim to support the future of legal aid with sustainable, user-centred services such as Check if you can get legal aid.
Probation digital is working to make things simpler, faster and better for front line staff, so they can spend more time with people in our care, helping them out of the cycle of crime, or with their offending behaviour. We are also working with people on probation to understand their needs and deliver products and services to meet these.
Prison digital is working to create the tools that support the Prison Service to provide decent, safe and productive places to live and work and support prisons to protect the public & reduce reoffending. We work with our users in prisons to provide modern tools that share information and give staff focused efficiency.
Platforms and Architecture is working to enable efficiencies across Justice Digital by solving common problems on its modern and legacy services and its data platforms.
As our new Lead Product Manager you will form a key part of the senior leadership team and will be working closely with the Head of Digital and profession leads across delivery, research, business analysis, user research, technical architecture and development. You will be responsible for owning and developing the product strategy and optimising the overall value that Justice Digital delivers through our products and services. It's a really exciting and challenging time right now and you could make a considerable difference, helping us to achieve great outcomes and bring your product leadership to our vibrant product community.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
- Be a visible product leader, applying your expert level product management skills by leading and supporting multidisciplinary product teams through the full product lifecycle, from discovery through to product retirement.
- Lead strategy development for your products and teams to create an articulate vision and achievable You will iterate the product strategy and roadmap for an area of the justice digital portfolio which meets customer and organisation expectations, across digital and non-digital delivery, influencing and gaining support from senior leadership/stakeholders to gain buy-in.
- Represent your products and build strategic and collaborative win-win partnerships with stakeholders, colleagues, other government departments and policy, to design products that are aligned to organisation and government strategy.
- Role model the civil service values and behaviours to all those that you work with, supporting and leading a thriving, vibrant professional community of product managers, working with the Head of profession to teach, coach, mentor and continually contribute to mature an engaged product network across MoJ.
- Ensure that the deliveries within your product areas add value by advocating and championing user needs, product vision, and MoJs mission, helping us to support the future.
- Lead difficult and complex situations, anticipate problems, work within constraints and guide teams through complex decision to reach reasonable and acceptable conclusions for your stakeholders.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential
You will be working at expert level at all of the following:-
- Product Ownership - the core skills of product management, particularly high volume digital products in fast-paced environments, working with multidisciplinary agile teams. Capable of defining your own approaches, coaching others, setting priorities and aware of what other sectors are
- Strategic Ownership - the core strategic skills of product management, building the overall value proposition, developing a long-term vision, objectives and roadmaps that enable us to focus on outcomes, not Focussing on priorities and developing the capability of others.
- Problem Management - having the ability to anticipate, understand, articulate and solve problems by using great communication/influencing and collaboration skills that enable you to build strong interpersonal relationships and create inclusive environments to facilitate problem solving.
- Working Within Constraints - utilising your influence in challenging circumstances, understanding when to confront or remove constraints and using your resilience to support and coach others to accept less popular constraints. Making the right conclusions and making confident decisions at the right time.
- Life Cycle Perspective - Capable of leading teams through each stage the full product lifecycle from discovery through to product retirement, using your skills and experience to advise teams on tools and techniques. Successfully motivating and inspiring teams through great leadership.
- User Focus - acting as a champion for user needs across the organisation, giving direction on which tools or methods to use whilst demonstrating experience in meeting the needs of users across a variety of channels. Understands and brings insight and expertise in how user needs have changed over time to ensure they're met by the business and apply strategic thinking to provide the best service for the end user.
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.
Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
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