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Product Manager - SC Cleared
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Senior Consultant - Product Manager
Salary: £65,000 - £85,000
Location: Hybrid, 1-3 days a month in London or Manchester
Clearance: Active SC clearance required to start
We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to join our Product capability as a Senior Consultant, shaping the direction of complex digital products and services across Government and Defence.
You will work within multidisciplinary agile teams, bringing together user needs, business priorities and technical considerations to set a clear product vision and make sure products deliver meaningful outcomes.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define and communicate product vision, strategy, goals, and roadmaps.
- Understand user and business needs and translate them into clear product outcomes and priorities.
- Make evidence-based prioritization decisions, balancing user needs, business objectives, and technical constraints.
- Engage senior stakeholders to understand requirements, manage expectations, and build alignment around product direction.
- Lead products through discovery, development, testing, launch, and continuous improvement.
- Use data, research, and feedback to measure product performance and inform future priorities.
- Identify dependencies, risks, and opportunities across the product lifecycle.
- Work closely with User Researchers, Designers, Engineers, Architects, and Delivery colleagues.
- Champion agile, user-centered, and iterative approaches to digital delivery.
- Contribute to the development of Product capability and good practice.
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- Active SC clearance (essential).
- Strong experience as a Product Manager or similar digital product role.
- A track record of defining product vision, strategy, objectives, and roadmaps.
- Experience managing products through different stages of the product lifecycle, from discovery through to live operation.
- Confidence using evidence, research, and data to inform product decisions.
- Strong senior stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to balance strategic priorities with effective delivery in complex environments.
- Experience working within agile, multidisciplinary digital delivery teams.
- Strong understanding of user-centered product development.
- Government, Defence, or wider public-sector digital delivery experience is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with the GOV.UK Service Standard and Government Digital and Data approaches would be beneficial.
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