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On behalf of HM Land Registry, we are looking for a Senior Product Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based Hybrid in any HM Land Registry office 60% of the time.

Working as a contractor for HM Land Registry 

Our ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity, and an open approach to data. Our award-winning digital team is the in-house directorate at the heart of our transformation into a digital, data driven organisation. We are playing a pivotal role in ensuring that we are able to respond swiftly to our current challenges. We are providing a robust and resilient technical infrastructure to support our workforce. We are enabling our customers to interact with us in increasingly digital and automated ways and delivering our transformation portfolio which will revolutionise the way that we operate and provide services.

Our Digital teams are at the core of our plans for digital transformation for the future. At HM Land Registry we have a vision of a fully connected, digital system for buying and selling property that enables a more secure and more efficient land registration process. By joining us in a digital role, you can be at the cutting edge of our work to revolutionise the way property and land is transacted in the UK, supporting our vision of a world-leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future.

At HM Land Registry, we’re passionate about developing and attracting the best talent. People are at the heart of our plans for the future, so we have established a ’community of practice’ for every profession within our directorate. We now have 15 communities in total, including software development, data science, and product management. These communities are groups of talented people who perform similar roles and, through regular meetups and online forums, both within HM Land Registry and across wider Government, share best practice, discuss challenges, and support each other - which means happier, more motivated people! Find out more at: www.youtube.com/embed/LhtHDdzOybA

The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for the delivery and provide leadership towards the on-going success and continuous improvement of one or more strategically important digital products and/or platforms. They will be accountable to the Lead Product Manager for ensuring that business needs are considered and met and agreed targets are achieved.

As a Senior Product Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

• Provide a lead on the strategies and visions that are bold and ambitious.
• Ensure visions, strategies and roadmaps are aligned across your own products and other products and to HM Land Registry plans.
• Be an advocate for agile approaches and digital services.
• Support and develop product people to make them the best they can be
• Challenge current ways of working to drive continuous improvement.
• Define, own and resolve complex problems.
• Keep your people up to date and encourage open communications and idea sharing.
• Ensure plans are in place to manage your products through their lifecycle, including retirement where appropriate.
• Build and manage successful relationships with significant stakeholders.
• Focus on outcomes not solutions and coach others to do the same.
• Coach and lead teams in agile working, determining the right approach for the team to take and evaluating this through the life of a project.
• Think of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes for all users
• Work with and challenge senior stakeholders, being accountable for the products which you are managing throughout their lifecycle

Essential:

• Taking a user centred design approach to develop a product or service or iterate an existing product or service.
• Using innovation to challenge the as-is and solve problems to enable delivery.
• Experience of developing a product roadmap.
• Ability to create and nurture good working relationships.
• Able to lead in the creation of programmes/strategies that allow for the coaching and development of others.
• Delivery of products or services using agile methodologies.

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, Land Registry 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 / Commitment

HM Land Registry 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".