Product Manager

Data Product Manager £57,000 per annum Bedford Permanent Hybrid Working Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Data Product Manager and help shape the future of data-driven decision making. This is an exciting opportunity to work across the organisation, partnering with colleagues in Digital, Data & Analytics, Engineering, Customer Services, and Business teams to develop data products that deliver real value. You'll help unlock insights from customer interactions across our websites, helplines, and services, enabling colleagues to better understand customer behaviour, needs, and outcomes. As a Data Product Manager, you will bridge business and technical teams, ensuring data is transformed into actionable insights, intuitive visualisations, and strategic products that support decision-making at every level. Your work will help colleagues make evidence-based decisions that improve services, enhance customer experiences, and maximise impact for the people MaPS supports. Working closely with analysts, engineers, and data governance specialists, you will take a product-led approach to developing trusted, high-quality data products. You will help define and manage data domains, champion robust data models, and ensure that governance standards, business rules, and agreed definitions are embedded into the design of products from the outset. A strong advocate for Power BI and modern data visualisation techniques, you will ensure insights are accessible, meaningful, and aligned to business needs. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about turning data into a strategic asset, bringing together technology, analytics, governance, and user needs to create products that drive informed decisions and better outcomes for both the organisation and the customers we serve. Key Responsibilities: Role Overview The Data Product Manager will report directly to the Lead Data Product Manager within the Technology & Change directorate within the Data and Analytics team. In this role, you will be responsible for: Key Responsibilities: • Product Development: Lead iterative development of data products aligned with user needs and organisational goals. • Collaboration: Work closely with BI analysts, UI/UX designers, delivery managers, and engineers to enhance usability and accessibility. • Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, including those with varying levels of technical understanding. • Adaptability: Be comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving requirements in a fast-paced environment. • Governance & Compliance: Address legal, privacy, and governance issues early in the product lifecycle. • Evidence-Based Decisions: Use product usage data and evidence to guide prioritisation and lifecycle decisions. • External Value: Ensure products are accessible and valuable to external bodies including government and regulators. • Product Management: Maintain roadmaps and backlogs; translate user needs into product outcomes. • Community Contribution: Actively contribute to the wider product community at MaPS. Essential Skills and Experience: • Product management – experience managing data products or services such as business intelligence dashboards. • Agile and Lean practices – applying Agile principles and tools to support delivery. • Applying user-centred insights – using stakeholder insights to improve product outcomes. • Creating value for money – identifying opportunities for reuse and efficiency. • Life cycle management – understanding product lifecycle phases. • Managing product outcomes – identifying priority outcomes and using baseline data.