Product Owner / Product Manager - Consultant / Senior Consultant (Public Sector) - Permanent - Hybrid
Locations: London, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds
Salary: Consultant up to £55,000 / Snr Consultant up to £70,000 p/a
Flexible Working Model
SC Cleared or SC Eligibility essential / Public Sector experience essential
We are partnered with a leading digital innovation and consulting client who are currently hiring heavily across the UK with specific focus on the Product space.
We are seeking experienced individuals across all sectors and we are particularly interested to hear from candidates with relevant experience in UK Government or Public Sector.
As a Product Owner you will:
- Be trusted to own the vision and influence the team to ensure that the client receives high-impact and value from each iteration.
- Understand business needs, IT constraints and priorities and be able to make decisions – the backlog is owned by you, and you play a crucial role with your BA to ensure it is correct.
- Have client-facing presence, with the ability to communicate clearly at sprint reviews.
- Work as a member of cross-functional agile squad, while also having skills required to step-in and support Business Analysts or Service Designers.
Your Profile:
- Experience in a user-centred product or service development project
- Ideally - Experience working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards, using GDS design principles
- Vast knowledge and understanding of agile delivery
- A passion for working with cross-functional business and IT teams to deliver business outcomes
- The ability to make decisions on business priority, working with business analysts to ensure your requirements are known, defined and able to be built and delivered
- Willingness to help the scrum team, often playing a role as a business analyst, scrum master or service designer if the circumstances dictate it – we believe strongly in a balanced squad model, where our agile delivery team members are multi-skilled
- Influence and leadership to steer our digital delivery projects, working with our leaders and clients
- Commitment to professional development, with relevant agile certifications such as PSPO and / or PSM