Senior Product Manager - Health

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The Role Hippo Digital is recruiting for Senior Product Managers to join our growing Health Sector. As a product leader within our Health Sector, you will be instrumental in shaping vision, inspiring teams, and transforming client ambitions into impactful results. You’ll champion strategic product direction, empower multi-disciplinary teams, and drive the delivery of high-value outcomes that make a real difference.

This role offers a unique opportunity to improve public health outcomes while navigating the complexities of the NHS and wider healthcare landscape.

As a Senior Consultant, specialising in Product, you’ll already be an expert in your field, in agile and a confident coach. You will bring proven experience working across health and care organisations, such as NHSE, DHSC, NHSBSA, ICBs, Primary or Secondary Care. You’ll also be a leader of people and teams and an advocate for user-centred design approaches. Hippo will provide exciting opportunities to share your expertise with, and influence, clients and team members and to continue to develop you as a leader.

Your role in a nutshell:

Driving measurable outcomes and delivering true value for our clients.

Inspiring and guiding your colleagues by supporting them in understanding the client's needs, explaining the broader context and getting buy-in.

Provide team leadership and protect your team from unwanted distraction where possible, allowing them to focus solely on delivery.

Engage with stakeholders to create a project vision and translate into a roadmap & prioritised backlog.

Communicating with an extremely diverse group of people, including experts in their field.

Lead diverse a multidisciplinary team delivering work on behalf of our high-profile health and care clients Leveraging AI and emerging technologies to enhance delivery, improve quality, and optimise execution.

Skills and experience that you need People are at the centre of everything we do. We’re a diverse and close-knit community united by a love for solving complex problems for our public-sector clients and their patients.  We take a common-sense approach to getting things done, learning from experience and adapting as we go.

We don’t need you to have any certificates or qualifications, but we do need to be confident that you have the ability to:

Lead a team of people that are specialists in their field

Identify and use evidence of value to drive decision-making to ensure the user and patient are at the heart of the team Build consensus amongst people with different perspectives, with the confidence to make decisive decisions when consensus is not possible

Bridge the gap between stakeholders and the team so the team can remain focused on delivery

Find pragmatic and creative ways to balance constraints such as policy and security in order to prioritise work and meet user needs.

Perform well in a wide variety of delivery disciplines (Scrum, Kanban)
Communicate confidently and credibly on behalf of the company and the client.

Lead workshops and group exercises, remotely and in-person.

Build product and user centric capabilities in others, helping colleagues and clients know what to do when you are not around.

Apply GDS (Government Digital Service) and NHS Service standards, particularly the Service Manual and Service Assessments.

Navigate complex regulatory environments, including patient data privacy and clinical safety standards.

Deliver services through the Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live phases as per GDS guidelines.

Leverage experience working in or across health and care organisations (e.g. NHS, DHSC, NHSBSA) to drive service integration and improved patient outcomes

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