Lead Product Manager, Enablers

Job summary

The Digital Corporate Enablement Office, DCEO, is focussed on internal facing systems supporting business functions. This role is within the Metis Data Analytics, MDA team. Metis is the Home Office implementation of Oracle Fusion ERP and is used by over 55,000 colleagues across the department and a growing number of Arm's Length Bodies.   

The MDA team provide analytic and reporting support through Fusion Data Intelligence and other Oracle reporting products across the department including the full breadth of HR and Finance data to employees, line managers, functional teams and projects. This is a very busy space where the ability to prioritise and communicate strategy and rationale with Stakeholders is key.  

The Lead Product Manager is a key member of the DCEO and its Senior Management Team. In conjunction with the other Lead Product Managers, you will provide leadership and direction to all products in Metis. You will also maintain the high-level roadmap for reporting and data analytics across multiple related product teams and will be expected to line manage, coach, and support your multi-disciplined team, comprising of multiple professions. 

You will be involved in hiring associate Product Managers, Product Managers, Senior Product Managers and contractors, and provide leadership across the community of Product Managers. 

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office. Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.   

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Job description

The Lead Product Manager is a key member of the Digital Corporate Enablement Office and a part of the Metis Leadership Team.  You will provide leadership and direction to all products in a portfolio or product group. You will also maintain the high-level roadmap across multiple related product teams and will be expected to line manage, coach and support Senior Product Managers and/or Product Managers.  

You will be involved in hiring associate Product Managers, Product Managers, Senior Product Managers and contractors, and provide leadership across the community of Product Managers.   

Metis is the Home Office’s implementation of Oracle Fusion Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The Lead Product Manager will provide high-bandwidth interface between the product teams and Finance/HR stakeholders to ensure the roadmap, business requirement and Metis capabilities align.  

The main focus of the team you will join is the delivery of Analytics / Reporting dashboards covering the full range of the Metis Product. This includes delivery for new products and enhancements / new features for Business As Usual products. The predominant tool used by the team is Fusion Dynamic Intelligence. 

Person specification

Main Responsibilities

• Shape the portfolio vision with the director, engaging teams and stakeholders in its evolution. Monitor other Home Office and cross-government portfolios to identify opportunities for reuse or repurposing of products.
• Prioritise development work through a value-driven portfolio backlog. Line manage, coach, and mentor a multi-disciplinary team, supporting their growth through training and role alignment.
• Set strategic communication approaches to keep stakeholders informed and promote product uptake. Lead on using product data and user feedback to drive continuous improvement and champion evidence-based design across the department.
• Ensure product quality aligns with standards including the Government Digital Service Standard, Technology Code of Practice, TDA standards, and accessibility legislation, promoting these across government.
• Assure product roadmaps, release plans, and lifecycle strategies from inception to retirement, ensuring alignment with related products and departmental goals.

Working Pattern 

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, compressed hours are available.    

Essential Skills

• Focusing on outcomes rather than solutions and the ability to translate a vision into deliverable, measurable goals.
• Decision-making, with an ability to digest information from a multitude of sources and use that to develop a prioritized roadmap, often despite multiple conflicting demands.
• Building long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders and using those relationships to influence the development and enhancement of services, products, and systems.
• Taking a product through its lifecycle from discovery through to live.
• Communicating using a variety of methods (written reports, verbal feedback, presentations etc.), applying the appropriate method to each scenario/audience.
• Technical understanding of your product/service, a good understanding of technology and digital service delivery is crucial for communicating with stakeholders and delivery teams to support informed decision making and impacting those decisions.

SFIA capability framework 

Skills for the Information Age (SFIA) version 8 is the technical framework that sets the standard capability and development of all levels in the Home Office. This is a link to the capability framework:  All skills A - Z English (sfia-online.org). 

We use set SFIA technical skills to form our interview questions and we will assess you against these technical skills during the selection process. 

The essential skills listed above are reflective of the Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession Career Framework (based on the industry standard SFIA framework).  Use the SFIA Levels of responsibility to understand what would be expected for each technical skills listed below. 

Strategy and Architecture

• Business Strategy and Change
• Innovation (INOV) – Level 4
• Benefits Management (BENM) – Level 5 

Development and Implementation  

• Systems Development 
• Problem Management (PBMG) – Level 4
• User Experience 
• User Experience Analysis (UNAN) – Level 3 

Relationships and Engagement 

• Stakeholder Management
• Stakeholder Relationship Management (RLMT)– Level 5
• Sales and Marketing 
• Product Management (PROD) – Level 5

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Innovation (INOV) – Level 4
• Benefits Management (BENM) – Level 5
• Problem Management (PBMG) – Level 4
• User Experience Analysis (UNAN) – Level 3
• Stakeholder Relationship Management (RLMT)– Level 5
• Product Management (PROD) – Level 5

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £76,879, Home Office contributes £22,271 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

Why work for us...  

Find out more information at: Benefits - Home Office Careers, but some of the primary ones are: 

• A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%. 
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements. 
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service. 
• 8 days of public holidays, plus 1 additional privilege day. 
• Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office. 

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