Associate Product Manager

About the job

Job summary

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At HMRC, we are already one of the most digital advanced tax authorities in the world and have one of the largest IT infrastructures and data sources in the UK. With 50 million customers to serve, over 60 thousand colleagues to support, and £600 billion to collect to fund UK Plc, our IT operation is huge! For those who are up to the challenge, we offer unique and unparalleled opportunities to work with some of the newest technologies and make a real, lasting difference.

Job description

HMRC is made up of Customer Groups which are working independently towards one common goal. Our role sits within HMRC's Chief Digital & Information Office (CDIO) Group that deliver in-house solutions for a broad range of technical and operational issues. Our digital delivery centres are hi-tech, state-of-the-art facilities that allow our teams to maximise their capabilities.

We are recruiting 2 Associate Product Managers at HMRC Business Tax.

The team is a specialist product and service group within HMRC's Chief Digital Product Office (CDPO), responsible for supporting a diverse portfolio of tax regimes that underpin key areas of UK revenue collection. Business Tax covers a broad set of services and systems that enable HMRC to administer and collect taxes such as excise duties, environmental levies, insurance premium taxes, transport related, and specialist taxes. These services are often complex, highly regulated, and operationally critical, supporting both customer compliance and HMRC's assurance activities.

Person specification

Responsibilities:

• Set the vision, strategy and scope for a small product or product increment: Define the scope and key features for the product and service to align with the organisation's goals.
• Deliver product features for current products or services: Collaborate with your team to scope and build new product increments or lead the discovery phase for new products or services.
• Stakeholder engagement and management: Engage with stakeholders to understand their goals for the service, obtain buy-in from stakeholders for the vision and roadmap for product increments, and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary product team: Collaborate with other professions and team members, which may include user researchers, service designers, business analysts, or software engineers, to shape and build the product increments.
• Build user centred products: Work with team members like performance analysts and user researchers to gather user insights and feedback for iterating and improving products and services for end users.
• Develop and maintain the roadmap: Prioritise the order in which high level features and functionality is built and released based on what is most valuable to do first, through road mapping.
• Develop and maintain the backlog: Identify the team tasks ("user stories") to build the functionality on the roadmap and create a backlog of user stories. Deliver the user stories and regularly refine and maintain the backlog.
• Participate in and contribute to the Product Management community of practice: take part in the community of practice through participation in community meetings, and volunteering for community activities and initiatives.

This is an entry level product management role and candidates are not expected to be able to perform all the duties right away.

However, candidates who are offered the role will be judged as performing successfully if:

• they are regularly and sustainably learning and developing their product management skills, and can meet the above responsibilities over their first six months.
• if they are successfully delivering product features to the timelines expected.
• if there is stakeholder alignment around the product plans.
• if their product increments are meeting quality standards.
• and finally, if they are positively contributing to both their teams and the wider profession community.

Successful candidates in this role are often able to progress into more senior product management roles if they wish to continue their career path at HMRC.

Essential Criteria:
• Experience of understanding problems within a service, product or process, and finding a positive solution to resolve the issue.
• Ability to define product scopes and key features.
• Demonstration of strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to analyse and incorporate user feedback and insights for product improvement.
• Demonstration of being able to prioritise between multiple requests, based on what is most valuable to do first, and recommend the course of action to take the work forward.

Desirable Criteria:
• A degree in a relevant field such as Business, Information Technology, or Design is preferred but not always necessary.
• Prior experience of working in digital or product teams.
• Knowledge of how related practices like user centred services design or software engineering fits into the product development process.
• Professional certifications in product management, agile methodologies or ITIL can be advantageous.

Further Location Information

Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a 'Further Location Preferences (optional)' field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.

Office closures

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it's important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

These sites include:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £45,544, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £13,194 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

How to Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

• A name-blind CV including your job history and previous experiences.
• A 500-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement (max 500 words) should be used to describe your suitability for the advertised role, making reference to the responsibilities and essential criteria as outlined in the person specification part of the advert.

Please complete a separate statement (Max 250 words) for the Desirable Criteria where applicable. This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy-holder where candidates have the same scores at interview.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Sift

In the event of a large number of applications being received, an initial sift may be held on the CV.

At full sift, your CV and your Personal Statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.

We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.

Interview

During the panel interview, your experience will be assessed.

Interviews will take place via video link.
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