Product Manager - Public Sector; GDS Professional

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations.

Our culture of evolution centres on long‑term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e‑learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognised certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programmes for peer‑to‑peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work‑life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programmes, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), delivering deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer customers locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

• Define and articulate product vision, strategy, goals, and roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring alignment with the broader public sector objectives.
• Employ excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage and collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders, including executives, project teams, functional managers, and specialists from various areas (digital, operations, policy, legal, etc.), to build consensus, manage expectations, and facilitate effective decision‑making and prioritisation.
• Create a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) and oversee the ongoing evolution of the product roadmap and management of the product backlog.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team, integrating user needs and considering both business and technical considerations/constraints to drive product development.
• Lead the team in delivering products and services in line with the public sector's specific requirements and regulations.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, such as sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Remove obstacles and impediments that hinder the team's progress, ensuring smooth workflow and continuous improvement.
• Foster a culture of transparency, inspection and adaptation within the team.
• Collaborate with other product owners, stakeholders and Scrum Masters to ensure alignment and effective communication.

Required Education
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None

Preferred Education
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Bachelor's Degree

• Extensive experience in product management, including defining and articulating product vision, strategy, goals, and roadmap
• Masterful proficiency in…