Associate Product Managers

Details
Reference number

438152

Salary

£35,145 - £37,701

As our Associate Product Manager, your total reward package will be up to £49,448 annually

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Fixed term

Length of employment

1x Permanent & 1x 9 Months FTC

Type of role

Information Technology

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Number of jobs available

2

Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Location

Exeter, South West England, EX1

About the job
Job summary

We're looking for Associate Product Managers to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Associate Product Managers, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

We're recruiting for a permanent post and a temporary 9-month position, which has the potential to develop into a permanent position.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week, but we would also consider applicants wishing to work a minimum of 30 hours per week and we will also try our best to consider those intending to work a job share. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We're a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We're experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We're better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Job description

As an Associate Product Manager within our product delivery teams, you'll support the creation and management of innovative science and data products that underpin our forecasting systems.

You will help identify new ways to develop, build, and share world-leading science, data, and weather outputs, leveraging our cutting-edge supercomputing capability. By enhancing how we source, manage, and share observational data, your work will ensure that upstream systems, data streams, and partnerships meet the needs of our forecasting services and scientific advancements. You will contribute to fundamental changes in how we model weather and climate, which requires evolving many of our systems, products, and services.

Your key duties:

• Provide support to Product Managers and Senior Product Manager on a variety of Product Management tasks related to the project you are working on.
• Develop subject matter expertise in the products you are working on, identify, understand and manage dependencies and use your expertise to optimise the 'sum of the parts'.
• With support and guidance from your Products team, generate and maintain Product and Service artifacts.
• Undergo on-the-job training to progress to Product Manager skills and competencies.

Person specification

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

• You are an Expert by Nature with your understanding of Agile product management processes, how they benefit customers/users, and how they are used in practice to deliver change and improvement in tight timescales.
• You Keep Evolving and can demonstrate your understanding of a range of product management methods, for example, prioritisation and road-mapping.
• You work Better Together as part of a multi-faceted team to create and prioritise actionable goals, balancing user needs and business perspectives.
• You possess good communication skills, including an ability to tailor your communications to the needs of your stakeholders to help you build trusted relationships.
• You are keen to develop your Product Management career and want to develop an understanding of Met Office customers, products and services.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,145, Met Office contributes £10,181 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

If you share our values, we'd love to hear from you Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date 01/12/2025 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 08/12/2025. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

Things you need to know
Selection process details

How to apply

If you share our values, we'd love to hear from you Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date 01/12/2025 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 08/12/2025. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

Using AI in your application

We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions at the Met Office are made by people, not AI. For more details, visit our approach to recruitment.

How we can help

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at

If you're considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don't always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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