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Job summary

Main area
Management
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
990-TD-D&A-6806376-E
Employer
NHS England
Employer type
NHS
Site
Leeds - Wellington Place
Town
Leeds
Salary
£74,290 - £85,601 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/01/2025 23:59

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Lead Product Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Our Organisation

The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.

As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.

As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

Within Data and Analytics our vision is to be the leading data services provider for health and social care across England through creating innovative and high-quality data products and services that give our customers the knowledge and capabilities required to deliver the best outcomes for citizens. 

Main duties of the job

As a Lead Product Manager, you are accountable for the quality of a Data Products service. You will adopt a holistic view, managing an end-to-end service, which includes multiple data products. This may involve interactions across associated digital and technology products in support of the entire end to end data service. 

A Lead Product Manager is responsible for leading Data Product direction across multiple Data products within a product group (each of which may be managed day-to-day by another Senior Data Product Manager), acting as the senior lead and point of escalation. A Lead Product Manager will ensure multiple Data Products meet user needs as well as delivering wider strategic outcomes, priorities and benefits. This will often include shaping strategy and ways of working for key areas

A Lead Product Manager will need to adopt a user centred approach, operate at scale and provide the connection between multidisciplinary business areas (including other services and enabling functions) and stakeholders.

 The role is based in Leeds. 

‘Preference is for interviews to be face to face at the Wellington Place office in Leeds. Dates TBC’

Working for our organisation

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

  • Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
  • Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
  • Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
  • Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
  • Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This advert has attached Assignment Briefs/ information relating to roles currently vacant. However, please be aware that this recruitment may also be used to fill other positions that become vacant after the time of advert, for which Assignment Briefs or team information are not available. This will be limited to roles where the competencies to be assessed and requirements for the role are appropriately similar.

Interviews for this role are will take place in January 2025.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree level qualification or equivalent qualification/experience.

Skills and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Leading in a complex matrix organisation and prioritising competing demands.
  • Championing Product thinking and leading on mentoring and implementing associated ways of working.
  • Leading teams working across multiple complex data products.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Sound knowledge of data life cycle from data collection, curation and use.
  • Understanding of managing products through the product life cycle.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alistair Bullward
Job title
Head of Information and Analysis
Email address
[email protected]
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