Product Manager - Health and Safety Executive - G7

Location

Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Nottingham

About the job

Job summary

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the independent regulator for work-related health and safety. We act in the public interest to reduce work-related illness, death, and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces.   

Our digital services support our regulatory activities by providing secure, efficient, and accessible online systems that enable organisations and individuals to interact with HSE.   

The digital team plays a vital role in supporting both change projects and live services by designing, developing, and maintaining digital solutions that meet user needs and organisational objectives.   

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced product manager to join the digital team to lead multidisciplinary teams throughout the product lifecycle, delivering value to users and the business. 

Working Pattern

Part time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 30 hours per week. 

Travel 

This post can be based in any of the advertised HSE locations. However, there is the expectation that you will travel to other HSE offices across Great Britain periodically, including the HQ in Bootle, with some overnight stays for team meetings and to meet business need. 

For details of HSE locations please see here HSE Offices.

Job description

As a product manager, you will be working closely with projects, operational teams, developers, analysts, and user experience specialists.   

You will lead multidisciplinary teams to transform and maintain our digital services to meet business and user needs, using efficient, and effective, processes and ways of working. You will play a key part in digital transformation within HSE.   

Reporting to the head of product, you will be responsible for the quality of one or more products. You will manage your products throughout their lifecycle, working across projects and programmes, as well as business as usual. 

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with projects, operational teams, developers, analysts, and user experience specialists to deliver and maintain effective digital products and services.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams to transform and maintain digital services that meet business and user needs, using efficient and effective processes and ways of working.
• Manage one or more products throughout their lifecycle, working across projects, programmes, and business-as-usual activities, and ensuring product quality is maintained.
• Identify opportunities to improve business outcomes, enhance benefits, and continuously improve the quality, capability, and efficiency of products and services.
• Advocate for the user by understanding user needs and business goals to frame problems, support solutions, and set priorities for delivery teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve user and business outcomes through continuous improvement of products, services, and ways of working.
• Support digital transformation within HSE by ensuring products deliver value and meet organisational and user requirements.

Person specification

Essential Skills and Criteria:

• Demonstrate an understanding of leading the development of complex products within established governance frameworks, including project, change, and design governance.
• Knowledge of agile working in a multidisciplinary team, and supporting others to work in an agile way with an understanding of how the needs of the team and the product may vary between the different phases of a product lifecycle.
• Interpersonal skills with the ability to understand, empathise with, negotiate and influence individuals and groups. 
• User focus with knowledge of applying insight and user feedback to evidence user needs, balanced against cost and value for the organisation.
• Awareness of working within constraints. You can anticipate how constraints might change and know when to challenge or remove them.
• Exposure to working with operational teams in a regulatory environment to deliver digital change to support operational efficiency.

Qualifications

Applicants must hold a recognised qualification in Agile methodology or an equivalent certification. Examples include Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), AgilePM, SAFe, PRINCE2 Agile, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or an equivalent Agile qualification, or have relevant experience.