Product Manager

About the job

Job summary

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About Unity Business Services

Unity Business Services sits within HMRC's People and Places Group and provides critical human resources, recruitment, finance, payroll and procurement services to colleagues in HMRC and partner departments.

The Product Manager role sits within Unity Business Services and will support the implementation and continuous improvement of shared services products and platforms across HR, Finance and Procurement.

Our current focus is supporting the Unity Programme, which will introduce shared services technologies and processes to support HMRC and partner departments. As a Product Manager, you will help shape how enterprise products are owned, improved and delivered, ensuring decisions are grounded in user needs, business value and operational readiness.

You will work across SAP and related enterprise platforms, strengthening product practice, building capability across product owners and multidisciplinary teams, and using evidence, insight and performance data to drive continuous improvement.

Job description

The Product Manager will translate organisational priorities, user needs, technical constraints and operational requirements into clear product outcomes, roadmaps and delivery priorities.

Working with functional leads, product teams, delivery partners and operational stakeholders, you will manage dependencies, resolve trade-offs and support delivery across the product lifecycle.

If this sounds like the sort of work which excites you, this is the job for you.

Person specification

As a Product Manager, your responsibilities include:

• Lead products through discovery, delivery, live running and continuous improvement, ensuring decisions remain focused on user needs, business value and operational readiness.
• Define, own and communicate product vision, strategy and roadmaps across HR, Finance and Procurement products.
• Own product prioritisation and backlog direction, using data, user insight, service performance and stakeholder input to guide sequencing and delivery focus.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams and delivery partners to manage dependencies, resolve blockers and deliver outcomes.
• Influence senior stakeholders and governance forums, ensuring product decisions, risks, dependencies and trade-offs are clearly understood and agreed.
• Coach and develop product owners and product colleagues, setting standards and building capability across teams.

Essential Criteria

• Experience leading digital products or services through multiple lifecycle phases in a complex environment.
• Ability to define product strategy and translate organisational objectives, user needs and technical constraints into clear roadmaps and delivery priorities.
• Understanding of ServiceNow/SAP-enabled products and services, including how platform capabilities, processes and integrations support organisational outcomes.
• Experience making prioritisation, roadmap and backlog decisions using evidence-based trade-offs.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust, manage senior stakeholder relationships and support effective decision-making.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience working in a government, public sector, regulated or large enterprise environment.
• Experience working with Qualtrics, Signavio or comparable enterprise platforms supporting user insight, business process improvement and service optimisation.
• Experience working with Concur or similar expense, travel or finance-related products.
• Knowledge of Government Digital and Data standards, service assessments or related delivery frameworks.
• Experience contributing to business cases, benefits realisation or value-for-money decisions.

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

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.

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations (opens in a new window)

These sites are:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
• Trinity Bridge House, Salford - moving to an alternative office in Manchester/ Salford

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

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

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. Your CV should cover up to your last 3 roles (100 words per role), giving summary of what you delivered and any key achievements in each role and any Qualifications you hold.
• A 1000-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, referring to the Key Responsibilities and Essential Criteria in the Person Specification as outlined in the advert.

Please evidence any Desirable Criteria where applicable (up to 250 words max). This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy holder where candidates have the same score at interview.

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

Sift

In the event of many applications being received, an initial sift may be held on your Personal Statement.

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, you will be asked Behaviour-based questions to explore in detail what you are capable of.

Interviews will take place virtually via video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Eligibility

Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form . click apply for full job details