Junior Product Manager

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Job description

Job Title: Junior Product Manager

Hours: Full time, 36 hours per week

Job Status: Fixed Term until 31 March 2025 (potential to extend with subject to funding)

Location: Leeds Office based with opportunities for agile (hybrid) working

Salary: £39,363.25 per annum

Closing Date: 4 October 2024

Interview Date: 18 October 2024

Skills for Care helps create a well-led, skilled and valued adult social care workforce.

Our practical support helps leaders and managers recruit, develop and lead their staff, retaining them from entry level right through to senior leadership and management roles.

Find out more by taking a look at our website (url removed).

Skills for Care has an exciting opportunity for a Junior Product Manager to join our Digital, Data and Technology Team.

The purpose of the role is to manage digital products through their lifecycle, from discovery to live production, ensuring alignment with user needs and organisational goals. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, managing resources, and using agile methodologies to deliver high-quality digital solutions, while continuously improving products based on user feedback and market trends. Additionally, it includes managing external vendors, ensuring compliance with digital standards, and contributing to the overall digital strategy of Skills for Care.

We are looking for a person who is experienced in product ownership, with a proven ability to manage products and services from development through delivery and financial oversight. You will have a strong background in user-centered design, using data insights to prioritise and shape roadmaps. Excellent communication skills are essential, as you will need to explain complex concepts to non-technical audiences. The ideal candidate will be highly self-motivated, able to work independently, and adaptable to shifting priorities. Knowledge of digital, data, and technology standards, as well as experience working with multidisciplinary teams, is crucial.

If you are interested in this role please visit the website for the full job description.

At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We recognize that sometimes an individual s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.

A DBS check is not required for these roles. Candidates will be asked to disclose any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.

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