Product Manager - Public Sector

Salary: £19,500 - 35,500 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in bespoke software delivery as part of an agile team working for an external customer; client-facing consulting experience is essential.
• UK public sector experience, preferably central government.
• Experience across the software development lifecycle, from analysis through to acceptance, launch, and live operations.
• Excellent workshop facilitation skills, with the ability to lead stakeholder groups toward focused outcomes.
• Experience modelling as-is and to-be business processes and presenting them to stakeholders and the team to build understanding and buy-in.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to challenge decisions appropriately and adapt collaboration and communication styles.
• Experience breaking down work from inception through delivery and managing team backlogs with quality and maturity.
• Experience eliciting functional, technical, and non-functional requirements and translating them into clear user stories.
• Ability to use prioritisation techniques to refine the backlog and manage dependencies.
• Proven ability to manage scope to meet the required MVP and ensure value delivery.
• Ability to work within commercial constraints such as cost restrictions and project deadlines.
• Excellent user story writing skills, ensuring quality and consistency across the project.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships inside and outside the delivery team and collaborate on work breakdown.
• Experience contributing to sales activities such as bids and sales proposals.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, with the ability to mentor team members and coach clients.
• Demonstrated ability to manage, coach, and develop junior members of the team and wider community.
• Ability to explain technical jargon to non-technical and commercial teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own team backlog maturity and take features from inception through to delivery.
• Drive MVP thinking and communicate its value to the team, project stakeholders, and wider project team.
• Lead the team and run agile ceremonies, encouraging engagement and discussion.
• Plan and run workshops with a variety of stakeholders to facilitate consensus in areas of uncertainty.
• Participate actively in the Product capability and support delivery initiatives.
• Manage, coach, and develop a small number of staff, with a focus on employee performance.

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last updated 33 week of 2026