Senior Product Manager - (P1987N)

Working with our Head of Product and the Lead Product Manager, the Senior Product Manager will play a critical role in providing direction for products through which Homes England delivers its aims. You will be joining our small but talented team who are committed to making positive change in how we deliver digital solutions to enable the organisation to deliver its mission more effectively.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for line managing product managers and associate product managers, supporting and coaching them to build their capabilities. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team supporting a business area within Homes England to ensure there is an overall view of the problems and priorities and how we develop user-centred solutions to meet business needs, and ensure this forms part of the overall product strategy for Homes England.

Working with the other product managers you will contribute to an organisation-wide product strategy for Homes England and ensure the strategy for your service forms part of a holistic approach to building and maintaining products to meet the overall needs of Homes England.

You will have experience of leadership within a product management function delivering user centred digital products, through which you have gained expert skills in strategic product ownership and the ability to contextualise problems and their potential solutions within the wider needs of the organisation.

You will have experience of working as a product manager leading a multidisciplinary team in delivering large and complex digital services through which you will have developed expertise to be able to define and create approaches, to coach others and to implement new ways of working.

You will have an expert understanding of approaches to digital delivery including user needs analysis, service design, prototyping, DevOps and continuous improvement, through which you can bring insight and expertise in how user needs are met by the business and apply strategic thinking in how to provide the best service for the end user.

You will have the proven ability to develop long-term vision and objectives for digital services, being discerning and disciplined in focusing on what is important and most relevant, and be able to develop this capability in others.

You will have an understanding of new and emerging digital technologies and the opportunities they provide to improve the delivery of public services in the UK.

Strong interpersonal, leadership and strategy skills within an agile environment delivering end user focused digital services. Ability to provide inspirational leadership to the team, to talk to our users in a clear and concise way, and to be an advocate for Product Management both inside and outside of Homes England.

Benefits:

• Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
• At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance.
• We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
• We are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values.
• We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Selection process details:

To apply please follow the links to our careers page. Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.