Desktop Product Manager | Ref: PIP0008504

Location

Remote | United Kingdom

Job description

Desktop Product Manager – Inside IR35

Contract Term: 6 months with potential for extension

Contracting Authority: The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Location: Hybrid – London, Milton Keynes or Glasgow

Product Management is responsible for the development, end to end management and quality of all IDD products and services. Product Teams will be responsible for providing End Users with the Products and Services required to meet their business objectives.

The Desktop Product Manager is a role within the Digital Workplace Product portfolio within IDD, reporting to the Senior Desktop Product Manager for the product they manage.

They will be accountable for leading a desktop product through the product lifecycle, ensuring that the quality meets the needs of end users.

As a Desktop Product Manager your main responsibilities will be: 

• Managing the product through the product lifecycle including discovery, alpha, beta, live states and decommission in line with the product roadmap as set out by the Senior Desktop Product Manager.
• Ensuring the quality of their product, including continuous service improvement, ensuring that they meet the needs and expectations of the wider business.
• Building ITSM policies and processes into the ways of working for the product, working with ITSM practitioners to ensure compliance.
• Identifying the best processes and delivery methods to use, including for measuring and evaluating outcomes.
• Supporting technical colleagues to manage and visualise the outcomes, prioritise work and meet the agreed minimum viable product, print and scope.
• Providing timely progress reporting through the product lifecycle up to the Senior Desktop Product Manager to ensure the team is working towards the relevant service standards.
• Collaborating with Service Partners, user researchers and engineers to understand the users needs and desires, prioritising and defining approaches to understanding the user stories.
• Anticipating problems and implementing mitigations to defend against them, articulating problems and helping to resolve the problems.

Essential:

• An active SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this position, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.
• Experience of Product Management / Ownership within an Agile environment.
• Experience of working with Desktop products and services.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience.
• Strong problem-solving skills and experience.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with [email protected]

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, FCDO guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on [email protected].

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

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