Senior Product Manager

Base salary: £46406 pa to £54595 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As the Senior Product Manager you will be responsible for the quality of products. The role is accountable for utilising knowledge of user needs and business goals to resolve problems and set priorities for their delivery teams (which may be suppliers).

About the role:

• To be accountable for providing leadership and direction for delivery teams, with responsibility for products in their remit.
• To be responsible for providing day to day management of suppliers who will deliver various product development capabilities (on HS2's behalf).
• To be accountable for defining and maintaining product strategy and vision, supporting the business to define future strategy for products, and subsequent product requirements.
• To be responsible for discovering opportunities to sustain initiatives, features and functional enhancements, working with delivery teams and 3rd party suppliers to effectively deploy these.
• To be accountable for development and maintenance of product roadmaps.
• To be responsible for leading and assisting in elements of programme management activity.
• To be responsible for establishing and managing stakeholder relationships relating to products within remit.
• To be responsible for budget management and developing business cases to demonstrate how product outcomes will add benefit and value.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About you:

Skills:

• Life cycle perspective . Ability to successfully lead teams through the full product life cycle. Ability to identify which tools and techniques should be used at each stage. Ability to identify and deal with potential risks across or between all stages of the product life cycle.
• Problem ownership . Ability to anticipate problems and provide preventative and resolution measures. Ability to articulate the problem and help others understand and implement changes.
• Product ownership . Ability to define and create approaches, as well as new ways of working.
• Strategic ownership . Ability to develop and communicate appropriate strategies.
• User focus . Ability to give direction on which tools or methods to use to ensure products meet the needs of the business and the end user.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Product development and administration

Type of experience:

• Experience of managing budgets
• Experience of delivering roadmaps
• Experience of vendor management / managing suppliers
• Experience of working with stakeholders within a products function

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

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Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.