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Associate Product Manager - Future Production -Met Office-HEO

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Full-time (Permanent)
£33,794 - £36,235
Published on
4 July 2024
Deadline
22 July 2024

Associate Product Manager - Future Production

Met Office

Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 22nd July 2024

 

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Details

Reference number

360628

Salary

£33,794 - £36,235

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Information Technology
Other

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

2

Contents

Location

Exeter

About the job

Job summary

We’re looking for two Associate Product Managers to join our Future Production team and help us make a difference to our planet. 

Job description

As our Associate Product Manager – Future Production, 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. 

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week, based in Exeter. 

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 

Your world of expertise 

As an Associate Product Manager in the Future Production team, you’ll be responsible for supporting our Product Management teams in creating and managing new science and data products from our Supercomputer to our Production systems, gaining Product Management experience in a unique environment as we fundamentally change the way we forecast the weather.

You will work as part of an integrated Product team identifying new, innovative ways of developing, building and sharing our world leading science, data and weather output.  This will take advantage of our new supercomputing capability where we are making fundamental changes to the way we model our weather and climate which necessitates changing many of our supported systems, products and services. 

Your key duties 

  • Provide support to Product Managers and Senior Product Managers 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 artefacts.
  • Undergo on-the-job training to progress to Product Manager skills and competencies.

Person specification

Essential Criteria, skills and experience: 

  1. You are an Expert by Nature with your understanding of Agile product management processes, how they benefit customers/users, and how you can use them to deliver change and improvement in tight timescales.
  2. You possess good analytical skills with an ability to Keep Evolving to problem-solve independently, as well as recognising when issues need to be escalated.
  3. You work Better Togetherby building trusted relationships to develop and improve a product or service as part of a multi-faceted team.
  4. You possess good communication skills, including an ability to simplify complex problems to aid decision making.
  5. 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 £33,794, Met Office contributes £9,094 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is accredited as a 'Great Place to Work UK 2023' and in addition has achieved a place on both the UK's 'Best Workplaces in Tech' and 'Best Workplaces for Women' lists. 

As our Associate Product Manager – Future Production, your total reward package will be up to £46,974 annually, which includes: 

  • £33,794 base pay. 
  • An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 27%.
  • Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

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 22/07/2024 at 23:59 with first stage interview commencing from 13/08/2024. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed. 

How we can help 

If you are considering applying and need support to do so, please contact us via careers@metoffice.gov.uk. 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. 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.



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