Senior Product Manager

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.

What You Can Expect:

• Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions.
• Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have the option to progress with us on a technical career track.
• Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week.
• Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors - no project is ever the same.
• Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring.
• Deepen your expertise through our culture of learning and growth – you’ll have budget to take courses (technical and non-technical training), plus gain certifications.

Responsibilities:

• Work to agile best practices and cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders. You’ll be using your technical skills to problem solve with our clients, as well as working on internal projects.
• Participate in live in-person whiteboarding sessions to problem solve as a team, alongside asynchronous communication on Teams.
• Embrace an environment that values our stated company values.
• Plan and conduct user research and gather customer insights to deeply understand user needs, pain points, and preferences. Translate user feedback and market insights into actionable product requirements and improvements.
• Develop and communicate compelling product strategies and visions that align with the client’s strategic ambition and customer needs. Define and iterate clear product roadmaps and prioritise features and enhancements based on research, market trends, and business objectives.
• Lead the end-to-end product development process, including vision, strategy, backlog management, and translating requirements into epics and stories.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and delivery teams to ensure effective product development and delivery. Foster a collaborative environment and ensure alignment across teams to achieve goals and milestones.
• Own, maintain, develop and enhance product KPIs, metrics and value/success criteria.
• Engage with stakeholders, including clients, customers, and internal teams, to gather input, communicate updates, and address concerns. Build strong relationships and maintain effective communication channels to support product initiatives.

Qualifications:

Essential requirements:

• Experience design, business design, organisation change, system thinking, commercial case making, roadmap creation, horizon-scanning, analysis and consulting.
• Customer obsessed and know when to draw upon the right tools, with the right level of detail, to understand and validate customer problems.
• Forming and proposing early hypotheses as a starting point for collaborative iteration.
• Collaboration - reconciling differences, challenging and refining together, seeking feedback and counter-opinions.
• Creative, curious, and capable of solving complex problems.
• Using impactful storytelling techniques, backed by data, to explain, evangelise and persuade in formal settings to large senior audiences.
• Ability to balance product pragmatism against purism and to decide the level of discovery, experimentation and measurement needed when launching solutions.
• Love working with engineering teams, explaining the ‘why’ and collaborating on the ‘how’.
• Use of data to make decisions and to build strategies around metrics that reflect success or failure.
• Have evidence of using AI tools and techniques within the product management process to enhance ideation and decision-making, and to deliver client value at pace.
• Support clients in identifying opportunities to deliver value through AI, ensuring features are practical and aligned to business and customer objectives.

Please be aware that some UK roles at PA Consulting require UK security clearance. All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard; some roles may require higher levels of National Security Vetting, with residency requirements. Residents should be British citizens or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years to be eligible for security clearance.

Life At PA encompasses our people’s experience at PA. It’s about enriching people’s working lives with growth opportunities and purpose-led meaningful work. We’re focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diversity, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks potential so everyone can be their best self.

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on abilities and contributions. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

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