Product Manager

Job Description

Our client, a public sector body, seek a Product Manager for an interim period of 3 months.This role is predominately based in Edinburgh, with a degree of hybrid working.The role attracts a day rate of £450 (inside IR35) umbrella.Main duties:

• Agile working. You know how to coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices, determining the right approach for the team to take and evaluating this through the life of a project. You can think of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the rightoutcomes. You are able to act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Experience of working within constraints. You can work with and challenge senior stakeholders. You know how to prioritise and mitigate constraints and can turn them into an advantage. You can adapt the approach depending on the constraints. (Relevant skilllevel: working)
• Life-cycle perspective. You know how to successfully lead teams through the full product life cycle. You can identify which tools and techniques should be used at each stage. You can develop sustainable support models. You can identify and deal with potentialrisks across or between all stages of the product life cycle. You know how to coach others. You can contribute to the assessment of other teams, providing guidance and support as they move through the stages of the product life cycle. You can plan and engagewith the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project. (Relevant skill level: working)
• Operational management. You keep abreast of industry best practice and can cascade ways of working. You know how to make operations efficient. You can act as the escalation point for major operational issues and champion operational management across thecommunity. You can work closely with leaders of operational delivery teams in digital, data and technology (DDaT). (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Problem ownership. You know how to anticipate problems and how to defend against them at the right time. You understand how the problem fits into the larger picture. You can articulate the problem and help others to do it. You know how to build problem-solvingcapabilities in others. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Product ownership. You can start to define and create approaches. You know how to coach others. You can implement new ways of working. You are aware of what other sectors are doing. You understand what is most important and applicable. (Relevant skill level:practitoner)
• Strategic ownership. You know how to get buy-in from the organisation. You can work with scant information and explain it in abstract terms. You can develop a strategy. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• User focus. You know how to give direction on which tools or methods to use. You are experienced in meeting the needs of users across a variety of channels. You can bring insight and expertise in how user needs have changed over time to ensure these aremet by the business. You know how to apply strategic thinking in how to provide the best service for the end user.

Essential skills:

• Experience in working under different delivery methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
• Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to bring together views and perspectives of stakeholders / users to provide evidence base for decisions for product improvement, working closely with user centred design disciplines
• Understands and identifies problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution

To apply, submit your CV or contact Richard in our Glasgow office for further details.Please note this role requires a Basic Police Act Disclosure and BPSS clearance.