GDS Product Manager
Product Manager – National Surveillance Reporting Database
3-month contract (initially)
Remote Working
Outside-IR35
Market Rates (c£500 per day)
The Opportunity:
- ISR Recruitment is seeking an experienced Product Manager for a leading central government client, supporting the development and ongoing management of a national surveillance reporting database.
- You will bring together requirements from multiple business areas, establish a consolidated product backlog and develop a prioritised roadmap that balances user needs, operational risks, technical dependencies and strategic objectives.
- Consulting closely with the Technical Architect, Delivery Manager, User Researcher and delivery teams, you will turn business requirements into clear, delivery-ready backlog items and ensure effective product ownership, governance and stakeholder alignment.
Skills and Experience:
- Proven Product Management experience, ideally within UK central government or public sector digital services.
- Strong experience managing product backlogs, roadmaps, requirements and prioritisation.
- Ability to balance user needs, technical considerations, operational risks and competing stakeholder demands.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams, including architects, delivery managers and user researchers.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, governance and communication skills.
Desirable:
- Experience with Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and platforms and knowledge of the health sector or national surveillance services would be hugely beneficial.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Consolidate requirements and demand into a single structured product backlog.
- Develop and maintain a prioritised roadmap aligned with user needs and service objectives.
- Refine requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies and delivery ownership.
- Work with technical and delivery teams to address technical debt, risks and delivery dependencies.
- Support product governance, ownership models, decision-making and escalation routes.
- Incorporate user research and feedback into product priorities.
- Coordinate stakeholder engagement and maintain product communications, SharePoint content and release updates.
- N.B. Candidates will have or be willing to undergo a basic level of security clearance prior to starting the role (5-7 days lead time)
Applications:
- To learn more about this newly created opportunity consulting as a Product Manager for an initial 3-month temporary contract engagement, consulting on a remote-working basis; please call and speak with Edward Laing here at ISR on 07436 071 872 or please send through a copy of your latest online profile and/or CV ( edward@isr.uk.com ) for an immediate call back in the strictest confidence.
- Please contact Edward here at ISR to learn more about our client leading the way in developing the next-generation of healthcare solutions through innovation and transformational technology?