Associate Product Manager

Job Description

Job Overview The Associate Product Manager role is an excellent introductory role into Product Management.The Associate Product Manager is a key voice of product across Technology Business Partnering. They are embedded within the team, and it is their responsibility to create and prioritise requirements and ensure that the best product is developed to meet userneeds. As an Associate Product Manager, youll help define, explain, and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders. You’ll plan the work for multi-disciplinary teams helping to build out and deliver a product roadmap. Throughoutthe development of the product, you will be accountable for the quality of the product, ensuring that it meets both business and user needs.The Associate Product Manager is a decision maker within the team, often working with a range of colleagues to make collaborative decisions but with clear responsibilities for planning, decisions on user stories content and completion, acceptance criteria andprioritisation of the backlog.Main Duties of the JobAs an Associate Product Manager, you will:

• Work across a portfolio of activity within a multidisciplinary team to deliver solutions iteratively and improve it through multiple delivery phases
• Work with key stakeholders and a wide range of business colleagues to identify needs and manage dependencies across the organisation
• Develop an understanding of the users’ needs and champion these in the design and delivery of your product
• Contribute to and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders
• Develop and maintain a high-level roadmap that helps users, colleagues and partners understand the direction and priorities of the service
• Take ownership and management of the backlog in your portfolio by carrying out refinement activities to ensure the backlog supports the delivery of the right product and aligns with the product roadmap and wider priorities, making decisions based on evidence
• Work collaboratively with team members and users to create user stories, including acceptance criteria and validate prior to signing off
• Set measurable goals for your portfolio and report against these to demonstrate progress against stated benefits
• Represent the service to meet governance commitments including GDS service assessments
• Play an active role in the product manager community sharing your learning and celebrating progress made by other people and teams
• Be a proactive member of the Technology Business Partnering team, leading by example in our core values of Insightful, Impactful and Inclusive

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce. UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do thisthrough celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all. Essential Criteria:

• Agile working: is aware of agile methodology and how to apply the agile mind-set to all aspects of their work.
• Lifecycle Perspective: understands the different phases of product delivery and is able to contribute to, plan or run these.
• Operational Management: understand the operational processes of running and maintaining a product or service.
• Problem Ownership: understands and identifies problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution.
• Product Ownership: captures and translates user needs into deliverables.
• Strategic Ownership: focuses on outcomes, not solutions. Gets the organisation and team to buy-in.
• User focus: understands users and can identify who they are and what their needs are based on evidence.

Technical skills being assessed:

• Product Ownership - you know how to use a range of product management principles and approaches. You can capture and translate user needs into deliverables. You understand how to define the minimum viable product and make decisions about priorities.

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