Product Management

Location: Hellaby (Rotherham)/London/Oxford, UK

Tier: IC20

About UK Assessment & Qualifications: We are responsible for the delivery of nearly 4 million examination results per annum, including A-Level, GCSE, BTEC and T-levels for students in UK and International centres. Our in-house systems process every learner from registration to marking and certification, in a highly regulated business. We currently operate a hybrid estate of predominantly bespoke systems, with an ongoing strategic transformation programme to migrate from on-prem to cloud based, cost effective, scalable, and resilient services.

THE ROLE

Individuals in the Product Management roles are accountable for defining and executing product strategy and the value and viability of what the product team builds , ensuring the product value proposition, and overseeing the viability of products and their features. You will collaborate with Business Analysts, business stakeholders, technical architects, developers, and other technical SMEs to support the transformation programme across the Qualifications and Consumer pillars with UK Assessment & Qualifications.

Within a complex environment, you will represent the interests of the business, informing and supporting tactical and strategic decision-making to ensure proposed solutions align with organisational strategy and vision.

Key Accountabilities

Develop strong ties with business and technology stakeholders to understand the context of the UK qualifications division to co-create solutions to business problems.

Ensure customer requirements are captured and documented, maintaining appropriately sized and prioritised backlogs for delivery into a release.

Work with business and technology colleagues to ensure requirements are in line with strategy, will drive business improvement and are clear and fully understood.

Work with technology teams to deliver refined requirements to time and budget, and deliver the business benefit outlined in the business case.

Provide a point of contact between business stakeholders and technology teams – including development progress updates.

Ensuring demonstrations of progress are provided to stakeholders and user feedback is used to inform continuous improvement.

Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap to ensure the team builds valuable, viable solutions.

Drive efforts to uncover and validate customer problems, write Market Requirements Documents (MRDs) and Product Requirements Documents (PRDs).

Define and map existing and target business processes.

Ensure all analytical artefacts are produced in a consistent and timely manner with a high degree of accuracy and completeness.

Consider functional and non-functional requirements for any proposed solution.

Work as part of a project team to deliver projects to schedule whilst ensuring deliverables remain in line with strategy and within defined scope.

Track and analyze product performance to ensure solutions deliver the intended value.

What are we looking for?

Practitioner of delivery using Agile methodologies, with experience of using JIRA an advantage.

Experience of identifying business problems statements, identifying solutions and automation opportunities

Experience of business process transformation