Principal Product Manager - Health in Leeds

Hippo Digital is recruiting for Principal Product Managers to join our growing Health Sector. As a strategic product leader within Health, you will be instrumental in shaping portfolio vision, influencing health organisational strategy, and transforming client ambitions into impactful, large-scale results. You’ll champion strategic direction across entire product portfolios, empower leaders, and drive the delivery of high-value outcomes that significantly improve public health outcomes while navigating the complexities of the NHS and wider healthcare landscape.

As a Principal Consultant, specialising in Product, you’ll already be a recognised expert in your field, leading at the portfolio or programme level. You will bring proven strategic experience working across major health and care organisations, such as NHSE, DHSC, NHSBSA, ICBs, Primary or Secondary Care. You will be a leader of leaders, coaching Senior Product Managers and advocating for user-centred design across the health sector.

Your role in a nutshell:

• Owning and leading the strategic direction of areas within the Hippo product community.
• Leveraging your experience to develop and grow the community.
• Defining and leading the overarching strategic vision, roadmap, and business models for entire product portfolios within the health sector.
• Representing the product function at the executive level, shaping organisational policy, and advocating for product-centric changes with senior client leadership in health and care organisations.
• Establishing overarching strategy and objectives for a portfolio, including cascading objectives from the overarching health missions down to individual product goals.
• Defining and implementing delivery and risk management frameworks across a portfolio, proactively mitigating strategic challenges in complex clinical and data environments.
• Driving the improvement of organisational standards for user and patient research, ensuring patient needs are at the heart of all product work.
• Defining data, AI, and innovation strategies that align with healthcare standards, optimising for value, clinical safety, and the ethical adoption of future technological changes.
• Mentoring and coaching Senior leaders, fostering institutional learning and building capability across the health product profession.

Skills and experience that you need:

• Translate complex healthcare policies, market analysis, and emerging trends, such as the clinical application of AI, into actionable strategic decisions and product investment areas for a health portfolio.
• Architect and lead change strategies that align project delivery with long-term health organisational goals, addressing underlying processes, tools, and cultural norms.
• Build portfolio-level strategy and establish metrics frameworks to regularly review performance against patient outcomes and initiate strategic pivots based on data-driven insights.
• Define and influence organisational structure, processes, and culture to enable effective cross-departmental collaboration and psychological safety across complex NHS boundaries.
• Anticipate long-term threats and opportunities, influencing policy and investment to embed resilience, clinical safety, and patient data privacy as foundational principles.
• Lead collaboration efforts with a wide range of internal teams, clinical experts, external partners, and senior stakeholders, successfully presenting evidence-based business cases.
• Champion and embed GDS (Government Digital Service) and NHS Service standards at an organisational and portfolio level, guiding multiple products and capabilities through service assessments and complex regulatory environments.

What makes us great:

• Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%)
• 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
• Private health cover
• Private dental cover
• Additional company pension contributions
• Additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
• Wellbeing contribution
• Charity contributions
• Tree planting

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo:

At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

Hi, we’re Hippo:

At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes. We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world. Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society.

Hippo Locations:

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on-site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel and working on one of those sites at least 2 days per week. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8,000 (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.