Product Manager - Customer Insight Platform (CIP)

Product Manager - Customer Insight Platform (CIP) Location: Telford (Primary Base) / Hybrid with travel to London & Stratford as required Duration: 6 Months Rate: £400 IR35 Status: PAYE Only Clearance: BPSS Required Please note: BPSS clearance is required for this position. The role is offered on a PAYE basis only in line with client requirements. Your New Role We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead a critical discovery and delivery initiative within HMRC's Customer Insight Platform (CIP).The Customer Insight Platform consists of multiple cross-functional agile teams responsible for collecting, analysing and enabling the use of customer interaction data at scale. A new workstream, known internally as Flocking and within HMRC as the Adaptive Detection System for Counter Fraud, is being established to transform fraud detection capabilities across HMRC. This innovative programme aims to move fraud detection from reactive, rules-based approaches to a proactive, automated capability that identifies organised fraud networks and hidden relationships across large-scale datasets. The platform will enable investigators to uncover complex fraud patterns across banking, VAT, Self-Assessment, PAYE and other services in hours rather than weeks. As Product Manager, you will lead the Discovery and Alpha phases, helping to define the product vision, roadmap and strategic direction before supporting planning, estimation and business case development for the subsequent build and live phases. Essential Experience • Proven experience creating and communicating a compelling product vision • Extensive experience managing complex digital or data products throughout their lifecycle • Experience working in Agile, Lean and Continuous Delivery environments • Demonstrable success delivering products through Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live phases • Strong stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences • Experience defining product metrics and using data to drive prioritisation and decision-making • Ability to build and maintain product roadmaps aligned to wider organisational strategies • Experience working with multiple engineering, DevOps and data platform teams • Strong backlog management and prioritisation expertise • Experience writing epics, user stories and acceptance criteria • Ability to build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups • Experience working within large-scale data, analytics or insight-driven environments Key Skills • Product Management • Customer-Centred Design • Agile & Lean Delivery • Data-Driven Decision Making • Product Strategy & Roadmapping • Stakeholder Management • Team Leadership & Coaching • Commercial & Supplier Management • Incident Management • Workshop Facilitation Tools & Technologies • Jira • Confluence • Collaborative visualisation and modelling tools • Data analytics and exploration tools such as: • Splunk • Google Analytics • Superset What You'll Get in Return • Opportunity to work on a high-profile Government counter-fraud programme • Involvement in a major data and analytics transformation initiative • Collaborative environment working alongside multidisciplinary agile teams • Exposure to large-scale data platforms and advanced analytics capabilities • Hybrid working arrangement with a mix of remote and onsite collaboration What You Need to Do Now If you're an experienced Product Manager with a strong background in digital products, data platforms and Agile delivery, and you're looking to contribute to a nationally significant fraud detection programme, please apply now with your latest CV. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk