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Product and Strategy Manager
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Product and Strategy Manager
Product and Strategy Manager (Inside IR35)
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On behalf of the Cabinet Office, we seek a Product and Strategy Manager for a 3-month contract (with potential extension), working remotely.
About the Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. As the corporate headquarters (in partnership with HM Treasury), it leads in critical policy areas.
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The Role
As a Product and Strategy Manager, you’ll lead a place-based project in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, prototyping solutions to complex policy challenges. Key responsibilities include:
- Stakeholder management and delivery planning
- Defining strategic approaches to drive change
- Supporting innovative ways of working for desired outcomes
- Collaborating with central government and wider public sector partners
- Travel within the UK required
You’ll navigate complex policy challenges and identify strategic opportunities, adapting to evolving priorities while maintaining strategic alignment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver solutions via test-and-learn cycles
- Define an evidence-based vision for solutions, ensuring clarity and relevance for team, stakeholders, and end-users
- Work with the team to create prototypes that test assumptions and approaches
- Identify and assess risks, assumptions, dependencies, and timelines
- Develop and maintain a roadmap and backlog, prioritising work for impact
- Drive evidence-based decisions, ensuring value for money
- Use theories of change and evaluation to evidence project/programme outcomes
- Share insights with the team to adapt strategy effectively
- Balance long-term planning with respondsiveness to change, minimising risks
- Lead a team working within higher uncertainty, ensuring critical research and partnerships inform decisions
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Essential Requirements
1. Leading High-Performing Teams
- Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams across user-centred design, analysis, policy, delivery, and behavioural insights -Ability to provide leadership, direction, and escalation support while maintaining delivery momentum
2. Driving Product Strategy & Delivery
- Strong track record in developing and launching products/strategies/services
- Skilled in crafting visions, roadmaps, and compelling narratives, navigating complex policy/operational environments
- Ability to identify transformational opportunities
3. Agile and Lean Product Management
- Deep experience applying agile and lean methodologies, including:
- Roadmap development and prioritisation
- MVP (Minimum Viable Product) definition
- Evidence-based decision making
- Risk management and dependency handling
- Ability to maintain stakeholder confidence through unpredictability
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4. Influencing Senior Stakeholders
- Proven stakeholder management expertise, especially with senior leaders
- Ability to challenge constructively, reconcile differing viewpoints, and secure alignment on user/organisational objectives
5. Evidence-Based Decision Making
- Strong analytical skills, including:
- Using data, research, and evaluation methods
- Testing assumptions and assessing success
- Setting measurable objectives
- Developing theories of change using qualitative and quantitative evidence
Additional Information
- Location: Role must be performed within the UK only
- Applicants with disabilities/neurodivergence are welcomed under the Disability Confident Scheme. In some cases, desirable criteria may be applied where high volumes are received.
- Veterans and military spouses/partners have the guarantee of interview if fulfilling essential requirements, though desirable criteria may occasionally be applied.
Note: This role falls within IR35 legislation. Any quoted rate must account for gross payment (taxes and statutory costs applied), affecting intermediary/personal income.
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