AMS PSR

On behalf of Homes England we are looking for a Digital Product Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract. Remote working with occasional office travel (London, Leeds or Newcastle). 

Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

As a member of a multidisciplinary delivery team, you will be responsible for the quality of the products managed by that team. In this role, you will be expected to use your knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame problems and set priorities for the team in order to manage the product through its lifecycle. Working with staff within Digital and the business team for the service, you will develop and maintain a high-level plan for the products you manage to support Homes England’s ambition to have digitally enabled services that work more simply for users.

Main Responsibilities: 

• As a product manager, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and delivering a specific work stream of the change programme within Homes England. For this workstream you will work with the wider business team to help define their problems to ensure we develop solutions that meet the business needs and those of our users.
• You will work with the business team to produce and maintain a product strategy, ensuring that the stage in the product lifecycle is taken into consideration when planning the appropriate interventions, and directing which tools or methods will best suit the circumstance to ensure the product keeps meeting the needs of the service.
• In your role you would be expected to work with operational delivery teams in digital, data and technology to ensure that the ongoing management and support of products are effectively planned for.

Essential:

• Experience of working as a product manager delivering user centred digital services/products, through which you have gained skills in product ownership and the ability to contextualise problems and their potential solutions within the wider needs of the organisation.
• Ability to apply tools and concepts in a variety of ways and adapt to change, using new ways of working where appropriate.
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience of collaborating with user researchers and understand the importance of user research in identifying and prioritising the needs to be met, and you understand the variety and complexity of users’ digital needs and how products can meet these.

Desirable:

• Public Sector experience.

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, Homes England 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.

Armed Forces Covenant

Homes England guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 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".