Lead Product Manager | NHS England

Every month, millions of people use the NHS App to access their health records, request prescriptions, manage appointments and complete other tasks related to their health and care. As Lead Product Manager for the NHS App, you'll provide support and guidance to multiple product teams and their product managers. You'll help to develop vision, strategy and objectives with the teams, aligning their work with the wider NHS App strategy. You'll help connect the work of the teams, coordinate roadmaps, set and maintain standards and coach product managers. At NHS England, a lead product manager is responsible for leading product direction across multiple products or services within a portfolio or programme - ensuring theses meet user needs as well as delivering wider strategic outcomes, priorities and benefits. They use their experience, expertise and position in wider organisational leadership to ensure the operating environment for delivery teams actively supports and enables them to meet user needs effectively., NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you'll usually need to be paid the 'standard' salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the 'going rate' for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on theGovernment website. Lead product managers:

• are passionate about creating the organisational environment for collective success
• enjoy promoting, championing and advocating for the work of others
• like fostering trust and aligning purpose between diverse teams and initiatives
• enjoy delivering in a fast-paced and complex environment
They will typically have line management responsibility for one or more product managers and will coach or mentor several product managers. NHS product managers put people at the heart of everything they do. They are inclusive, ensuring NHS services work for everyone, improve lives, directly or indirectly and are designed for trust. They work in the open, testing assumptions, continuously making, learning and iterating, doing the hard work to make things easier for people. A lead product manager for the NHS App will:
• represent product management practice at a senior level, providing strong, decisive and visible product leadership, under the overall leadership of the Head of Product
• act as an initial point of escalation for key product decisions for a designated subset of a product portfolio, providing leadership, autonomy, support and direction as necessary
• work with product managers to ensure products and services have a clear vision with objectives aligned to the real needs of users and mission of the organisation
• ensure that teams have appropriate and relevant performance and success measures in place (e.g. Key Performance Indicators, Objectives & Key Results etc.) that align to user needs and organisational goals
• work with organisational leadership across programmes and organisational boundaries to ensure that vision and goals are aligned, key stakeholders and delivery partners are included, delivery coordinated and new partnership opportunities evaluated.
  
  A lead product manager will have strong, proven product and stakeholder management skills - including experience negotiating with suppliers and/or delivery partners, and working with leadership (including director- and executive-level stakeholders) to agree strategic priorities or responses to emerging risks and issues.
  
  The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.