Product Manager in Bedford

Product Manager - Data Products

£57000 per annum

Bedford

Permanent

Hybrid Working

Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Data Product Manager. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact by shaping, delivering and continuously improving data products that support the National Pensions Connection Service, the Pensions Dashboard and MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard programmes. You will be responsible for helping turn complex service, reporting, analytics and performance needs into trusted data products that enable informed decision-making across the pensions dashboards ecosystem, delivering value for internal users and key external stakeholders including senior leaders, regulators, government departments, delivery partners and dashboard providers.

You will lead the product direction for data products that provide a single, trusted and authoritative view of service performance. Working closely with Data Engineering, BI, Product, Operations and external suppliers, you will define user needs, shape roadmaps and backlogs, prioritise delivery, and ensure reporting, analytics and monitoring capabilities are robust, scalable and aligned to organisational and regulatory requirements. A key aspect of the role will be applying strong product management discipline to data and insight capabilities: ensuring products are evidence-led, user-centred, governed appropriately and designed to support service performance, continuous improvement, regulatory reporting and benefits realisation across a piece of national digital infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

Role Overview

The Data Product Manager will report directly to the Lead Data Product Manager within the Technology & Change directorate within the Data and Analytics team. In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Product Development:Lead iterative development of data products aligned with user needs and organisational goals.
• Collaboration:Work closely with BI analysts, UI/UX designers, delivery managers, and engineers to enhance usability and accessibility.
• Stakeholder Engagement:Communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, including those with varying levels of technical understanding.
• Adaptability:Be comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving requirements in a fast-paced environment.
• Governance & Compliance:Address legal, privacy, and governance issues early in the product lifecycle.
• Evidence-Based Decisions:Use product usage data and evidence to guide prioritisation and lifecycle decisions.
• External Value:Ensure products are accessible and valuable to external bodies including government and regulators.
• Product Management:Maintain roadmaps and backlogs; translate user needs into product outcomes.
• Community Contribution:Actively contribute to the wider product community atMaPS.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Product management – experience managing data products or services such as business intelligence dashboards.
• Agile and Lean practices – applying Agile principles and tools to support delivery.
• Applying user-centred insights – using stakeholder insights to improve product outcomes.
• Creating value for money – identifying opportunities for reuse and efficiency.
• Life cycle management – understanding product lifecycle phases.
• Managing product outcomes – identifying priority outcomes and using baseline data.

About Us

The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.

Our Values

• CaringWe care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform.
• ConnectingWe will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections.
• TransformingWe are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.

Our Inclusive Working Environment

By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”

Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.

What We Offer

• Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (employer contribution up to 10% of your salary)
• Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
• Life assurance scheme
• Give as you earn scheme
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
• Enhanced family and sick pay
• Paid volunteering (2 days a year)Recognition Scheme
• Discounts portal to numerous retailers

Flexible Working

At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per month. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Career Development

In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.

Reserve List

If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.

Application Process

The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: recruitment@maps.org.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.

Job Reference: MaPS01353
Close Date: 27/10/2026

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