Senior Product Manager
C. £70,000 per annum
Bedford Based (occasional travel to London)
Hybrid Working
Permanent
As Senior Product Manager, you will assume responsibility for the quality of their products and to own all aspects of definition and ongoing management of the solution. You will use your knowledge of user needs and business goals to determine the approach and set priorities for their delivery teams.
The MaPS Product Delivery team delivers a broad ecosystem digital self-serve tools and services that allows MaPS, and its service delivery partners and stakeholders, to provide digital solutions that meet both their statutory objectives and helps deliver against the longer-term strategic goals and agendas for change. As a part of a delivery team, with a bias for Agile, this role will create and continually improve journeys to deliver customer experiences. to improve financial wellbeing for the whole of the UK
The role holder is the key interface between the strategic and operational stakeholders and the Technology & Change teams and operates as part of a cross functional squad. You will be part of a team responsible for developing, managing, and optimising digital self-serve customer journeys and multi-channel experiences for our organisation.
You will be joining a product team of 6 and you will support the delivery of priority journeys by becoming embedded in the scrum teams and providing the product management expertise required to deliver successful journeys.
You will champion the use of customer insight and data to define new customer experiences to optimise, test and validate existing journeys.
Here is an insight to Money and Pension Service:
At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves to our values.
We care about our colleagues and people whose lives we are here to transform, we will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections, and we are committed to transforming lives and make a positive societal impact.
By fostering our values, we are very proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. We are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds, we want our colleagues to reflect our customers and the people we assist.
In this role you will be responsible for the following;
- Effective collaboration with cross functional teams to design new journeys to satisfy the strategic priorities.
- Ensure delivery plans are appropriate, considering impact on service delivery, front-line MaPS colleagues and customer experience.
- Deliver enhanced customer experience, uplift seen in customer experience and satisfaction as measured by the increase in agreed KPI’s.
- Promote simplification of propositions, processes, as a Product expert throughout the delivery of new journeys or services
- Drive the “build once use many times” approach to deliveries, ensuring consideration is given to how new journeys will work as part of the overall service experience, not just optimised for one journey
- Operate as a primary interface to the wider MaPS programmes, driving digital best practice to facilitate consistent journeys, ensuring they will blend or align with current or planned customer experiences and thinking
- Embed the concept of customer centricity within change processes and governance.
- Assist with the shaping and structuring of projects with a view to maximising customer experience, increasing efficiency and reducing costs, within the required risk metrics and regulatory framework.
- Review, identification and mitigation of risks and dependencies
- Work within management controls, escalating issues and risks as appropriate
- Convert programme and project requirements grouped together into work packages to be delivered by blended teams of in-house and third-party resources from digital delivery partners
- The role holder will work with multiple stakeholders, and use the best digital practices/principles to ensure optimal interpretation and prioritisation of work package grouping
You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience;
You will need experience of agile delivery, working and contributing to an agile delivery model and be able to coach and lead teams in agile and lean practices. You should have experience in working with backlog management and feature roadmap tools and be proficient in the use of web analytics and performance monitoring tools. You will be able to demonstrate an advanced understanding of design, technology and data principles and experienced in using data and insight to meet the needs of users across a variety of channels.
In addition to this, you will need:
- The ability to understand customer intent to create end to end customer journeys with a broad understanding of UX design
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage with senior colleagues as part of a team and to influence decision making and get buy-in from the organisation
- To have a broad understanding of the financial services sector
- To be passionate about customer experience, with a continuous improvement and digital focus
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of mobile apps and services best practice both in financial services and other industries
- Proven in engaging with customers and colleagues to break new ground
- Passionate about understanding user needs and using customer insights and data to create great digital experiences
- Hands-on qualitative and quantitative research experience using a range of techniques (e.g. depth interviews, focus groups, online communities, diary studies and user research) and be able to give direction on which tools or methods to use
- Strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail and good business judgment.
- Experienced using data tools to create a digital customer journey (analytics, usability systems, AB testing)
- Able to deliver clear hypothesis to fuel UX & Development
- Entrepreneurial and analytical, customer focused and collaborative
- Adaptable to change and able to influence change yourself
- A great communicator and know how to sell an idea, capable to communicating a digital narrative to a broad range of stakeholders through excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
- Self-starter who possesses flexibility to work in a fast-changing environment and ambiguous situations
About MaPS
At MaPS, we help people – particularly those most in need – to improve their financial wellbeing and build a better, more confident future. Working collaboratively across the
At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people in and around Bedford to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves to our values: -
- Caring
We care about our colleagues and people whose lives we are here to transform. - Connecting
We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections. - Transforming
We are committed to transforming lives and make a positive societal impact.
Our inclusive working environment:
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds.
We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”
By way of brief example, we have an enviable ethnic diversity mix, equal gender balance with a zero mean gender pay gap and thriving colleague and ally networks, including LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men's health, ethnicity, and diversity.
What Money and Pensions Service can offer you?
• Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
• Interest-free loan to help you buy season tickets for buses and trains
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Subsidised eye test & flu jabs
• Life assurance scheme
• Give as you earn scheme
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
• Enhanced family and sick pay
• Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
• Recognition Scheme
• Discounts portal to numerous retailers
At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. Most of our roles can operate on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, noncontractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs.
Job Reference: MaPS00649
Close Date: 02/09/2024
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