About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner for a SaaS product or internal platform
- Working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture practice and how Enterprise Architecture tools are used
- Strong stakeholder management experience, including working with senior leaders and external suppliers
- Strong Agile delivery experience, including backlogs, user stories and sprint planning
- Ability to define, track and communicate benefits and success measures
- Experience owning and communicating product roadmaps, prioritised backlogs and acceptance criteria
- Strong product leadership skills, with evidence of making difficult prioritisation decisions
- Experience delivering in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
- BPSS clearance
- Desirable: Hands-on experience with an Enterprise Architecture tool such as Ardoq, Avolution ABACUS, SAP LeanIX or Sparx
- Desirable: Experience running or developing a shared service across multiple organisations
- Desirable: Previous Central Government, Local Government or wider public sector experience
- Desirable: Experience working across multiple organisations and complex stakeholder landscapes
- Desirable: Experience using Jira for product and Agile delivery
- Desirable: A recognised Product Management certification, for example BCS, or SAFe
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the product vision, users, priority use cases and roadmap
- Own and communicate a prioritised product backlog, including user stories, acceptance criteria, release goals and measurable success indicators
- Lead product prioritisation and decision-making, balancing user needs, delivery constraints, public value and cost
- Support Agile delivery through backlog refinement, user stories, sprint planning and appropriate Agile ceremonies
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and suppliers against milestones, dependencies, risks and decisions
- Work with architecture colleagues to ensure the platform supports common taxonomy, traceable evidence, dependency analysis and architecture intelligence
- Build and manage relationships with senior stakeholders, external suppliers, government organisations, technical teams and architecture teams
- Agree supplier delivery scope and verify outputs against acceptance criteria
- Define, track and communicate benefits and success criteria, keeping product decisions evidence-led
- Support product evaluation and lessons learned, considering user value, cost, risks, operational sustainability and future options
- Maintain delivery momentum while navigating ambiguity, competing priorities and demanding timescales
Technologies
- Abacus
- Support
- JIRA
- Product Manager
- Product Owner
- SAP
More
We are recruiting an experienced Senior Product Manager for a Central Government client, working in a complex programme connecting organisations, services and data across organisational boundaries. This hands-on product leadership role requires someone who can quickly become productive in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment, balancing user needs, delivery priorities, product outcomes, dependencies and programme constraints. The role is offered at £650 per day inside IR35, on a contract until 31 March 2027 with potential extension. It is predominantly remote, with London, Bristol or Manchester as location options. The interview process is a single-stage Microsoft Teams interview.
last updated 46 week of 2026