Product Manager at Health and Safety Executive, UK Wide, 3 Months, £Contract Rate

On behalf of HSE, we are looking for a Product Manager (Inside IR35) for a 3 Month Remote contract with occasional visits to Liverpool.

At the Health and Safety Executive, we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. Our mission is to prevent work-related death, injury, and ill health.

The world of work is always changing. We use science to understand these changes. And that understanding helps us all prepare for the workplaces of tomorrow... so Great Britain continues to be one of the safest and best places to work and do business.

As a Product Manager you will be:

• Leading service design, redesign and the subsequent operational delivery, ongoing success and continuous improvement.
• Work with senior stakeholders to define the strategy for one or more services.
• Lead and commission in-house or external multi-disciplinary delivery teams to deliver new services and iterations to existing services to meet user needs.
• Be accountable for the quality and usage of your services.
• Create prioritised product/service descriptions and delivery plans to meet user needs in a cost effective way; define and get user buy-in for service definition and delivery approach.
• Engage with technical staff and suppliers to define the best system and platform configurations to achieve business/user objectives.
• Encourage the maximum possible take-up of digital services by effective marketing, and specify/manage the requirements for assisted digital activity to supplement this.
• Proven people management skills, with experience of managing multi-disciplined teams of UX designers, developers and analysts.
• Adept at evaluating complex strategic/policy issues and processes, identifying effective digital solutions and explaining how they can meet business objectives and improve services.
• Demonstrable experience in prioritising features/functionality that delivers the maximum impact, weeding out those that are not essential and prioritising those that are.

Lead a multi-disciplinary team through alpha phase:

• Define and refine the problem statement to ensure it aligns with policy intent and organisation goals
• Set outcomes and success measures. Define what success looks like and establish metrics and indicators
• Explore solution options, producing recommendations and taking these through HSE governance
• Shape and prioritise the backlog
• Work closely with user research to ensure direction and design are evidence based
• Consider policy, legal and operational constraints
• Lead stakeholder engagement
• Prepare for alpha assessment
• Prepare for Beta phase

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

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, HSE 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. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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.