Lead Product Manager- Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency-G6
Government Digital & Data -
Lead Product Manager
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 28th July 2024
Details
Reference number
358067
Salary
£64,108
Job grade
Grade 6
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
DVLA - Information Technology Services
Type of role
Digital
Information Technology
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
Number of jobs available
1
Contents
Location
Swansea
About the job
Job summary
Are you an experienced product leader who enjoys taking responsibility and pushing boundaries?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Would you like to find out more about the role, the digital team and what it’s like to work at DVLA? If so, we are organising a familiarisation session where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Monday 22nd July 2024 at 12:00pm.
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Job description
Within our ITS directorate, we are recruiting a Product Leader with responsibility for managing and leading a number of products within a product portfolio containing multiple individual products. The Lead Product Manager role is a critical role in driving the development of new and existing DVLA services during and exciting period of development.
Key elements of this role are:
- Managing a portfolio of products, providing leadership and direction, whilst also acting as product manager for the most complex areas
- Creating and maintaining a portfolio level product vision and high-level roadmap across the product portfolio
- Setting strategy and managing resource allocation within product to support product development
- Working closely with other Lead Product Managers to ensure synergy across the product organisation
- Contribute to the DVLA product management capability to build and develop standards and guidance across the capability
- Working closely with the Head of Product to provide leadership and direction within the product community
- Being involved in hiring Senior Product Managers and managing any related contracts
- Budgeting and forecasting across the product portfolio
Lead Product Managers manage a complex portfolio of products at the heart of the delivery of DVLA change programmes. You will be responsible for line management, development and coaching of Senior Product managers, providing the escalation route through to the Head of Product and ensuring the consolidated delivery of technical change across multiple squads.
You will be confident challenging approaches and be a positive role model of the values, attitudes and behaviours of the capability. You will set the vision and strategy of the technical outcomes, manage dependencies, and identify and manage priorities to ensure the successful delivery of the technical products based on introducing value within the products.
You will need to have excellent communication skills and will engage with senior stakeholders at all levels to support the effective delivery of those products and services.
You will own the development and continuous improvement of the product portfolio, turning the vision into reality. You will ensure the product vision is delivered in the most effective way, building something that is reusable and transformational. You will be responsible for balancing requirements within in change initiatives across multiple programmes, continuous product improvements to ensure the product is maintained to DVLA standards, managing defects, technical debt and other improvements identified.
Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:
- Scoping, mobilising and ensuring the delivery of a portfolio of technical products, services and outcomes ensuring the delivery of high-quality digital services using an appropriate blend of agile methodologies, learning & iteration
- Line managing and mentoring Product managers within the product portfolio and support continuous professional development within the capability
- Creating, managing and communicating complex technical roadmaps
- Leading the collaborative, dynamic technical planning process – prioritising outcomes that need to be achieved against the capacity and capability of multi-disciplinary teams and ensuring there is an iterative plan to work towards to ensure successful delivery
- Managing the overall integrity and coherence of the portfolio’s technical delivery, its dependencies and interfaces with other deliverables using appropriate tooling
- Working with engineering teams within the product areas to define and manage an efficient portfolio roadmap that encompasses both new product features and operational maintenance and technology refresh of existing platforms
- Manage continued operational running of the products within the portfolio ensuring in line with service SLAs
For further information about the role please see the attached role profile. Click here for the Word version, and here for the PDF.
For further information about DVLA Digital, please click here to view our brochure.
Additional Information
Applications will be accepted from full time/part time/job sharers. Full time roles at DVLA consist of 37 hours per week. Part time and/or flexible working may also be available subject to the needs of the business. If you have a flexible or part time working requirement, you should contact the vacancy holder in advance of making an application to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your desired working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role. To contact the vacancy holder, please use the job contact details listed under ‘Contact point for applicants’.
Person specification
This role requires strong leadership and communication skills, and the ability to understand the impact actions have on the organisation. The successful candidate will have experience of mobilising large scale product deliveries, driving a positive team culture, supporting professional development and be able to motivate teams to be fully engaged in their work. As a leader it’s important that you can be a strong advocate for continuous professional development and be an ambassador for changing culture across government.
You will be an experienced product manager, ideally with a technical background. You will have experience in the delivery of a range of complex and large-scale change in a fast-paced environment, including the successful use of agile methodologies, and have a sound understanding of the digital landscape. You are experienced in creating and maintaining a portfolio level product vision and high-level roadmap and also setting strategy and managing resource allocation for solution development programmes.
You must have experience in delivering enterprise scale digital products and services and of balancing multiple priorities. In addition, you will be professionally curious taking an interest in the development of the wider community and always looking at the big picture.
You will already hold or will be expected to commit to undertaking appropriate development and qualifications to achieve professional standards of technical product management, up to Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner.
Working for the DVLA Digital Team
At DVLA, licensing is just the start. Every project you implement, touch and deliver has a ripple effect that’ll wash across the nation. Here the work you’re doing has the capacity to change the way 50 million people interact with our services. As we aim to keep our roads some of the safest in the world, our innovative, transformative digital-led services help optimise a nation of individuals and business every single day.
To see how our people are transforming our digital services, head over to our DVLA Digital Services Blog and, to understand more about the great opportunities and benefits of working at DVLA read our Inside DVLA blog.
Due to the evolving nature of the business, vacancies can become available at any time. Therefore, this campaign may create a reserve list to fulfil demand if it arises which will be held for a period of 12 months.
Qualifications
Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner (level 4) or willingness to work towards this qualification once in post.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework - Life Cycle Perspective (Expert)
- Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework - Strategic Ownership (Expert)
Benefits
Passionate, reliable and always willing to push yourself and those around you, you’ll continue to seek improvement in your own role and challenge us too. Because we pride ourselves on how we approach your development. From training courses to specialist skills workshops and opportunities to grow your expertise, we thrive when you thrive. You can find out more about all of the above here alongside a full list of our benefits:
- Best in class learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues
- Generous employer contribution of 28.9%, depending on chosen
- Digital communities with clear career frameworks
- On-site gym plus personal training available (membership applies)
- On-site nursery, restaurants and coffee bar
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), increasing by 1 each year (up to 30) & 1 extra day for the King’s birthday
- Free parking
- A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a minimum of 60% of their time in the office over a month, with flexibility dependent on balancing business and individual need.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
How to Apply
To apply please click 'Apply at advertiser's site' at the bottom of the page. You will be required to submit a CV and personal statement providing detailed evidence of your experience of the following essential criteria:
- Delivering a portfolio of enterprise scale digital products and services or managed multiple individual products
- Setting strategy and managing resource allocation for solution development programmes
- Creating and maintaining a portfolio level product vision and high-level roadmap
Please note that any part of the role profile could be tested at sift/interview.
If invited to interview, this may consist of a range of question types. These could include questions around behaviours and how you would respond in any situation as well as specific examples of things you have done.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- An interview and presentation
Assessment and Interview
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a CV and personal statement to Inspire People (our Recruitment Partners) which outline your experience and suitability for the role (based on the experience points outlined in the essential criteria on this advert).
On receipt of your CV and personal statement, DVLA Hiring Managers will complete a sift.
Please note; the sift will be completed on a rolling basis whilst the campaign is still live and so there is potential for feedback to be shared with you (on your application) before the advert closes.
If at sift your application is successful, you will be invited to an interview (which will include an assessment) and be conducted by DVLA Hiring Managers.
Interviews/assessments will take place Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th August.
At the interview stage, you will be assessed against various Behavioural and Technical elements. (Find more information around these elements by following the Success Profiles and Technical skill links in the advert).
This interview will be conducted on site at DVLA Swansea, SA6 7JL, details of which will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
Please familiarise yourself with the Government Digital & Data framework as you will be tested on elements of this during the interview stage.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Please take note that DVLA does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Further Information
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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