MOD Corsham, Westwells Road, Corsham, SN13 9NR
Job Summary
Defence Digital ensures our Armed Forces remain among the most technologically advanced in the world. We do this by putting innovative and effective technology into the hands of over 200,000 users, from the boardroom to the front line.
We lead on cutting-edge data science, automation, and cyber security at scale. Our mission goes beyond the battlefield by leading humanitarian efforts and driving digital innovation that impacts lives across the globe.
Defence Digital forms part of Strategic Command which manages the MOD’s joint capabilities for the Army, RAF, and Royal Navy.
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This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job Description
As a Product Manager this role involves being at the forefront of delivering the right capabilities to support the UK’s Defence strategy. You are expected to own the life cycle of your product, ensuring it aligns with Defence priorities and delivers maximum operational value. You will own defining the product value proposition and articulating a product strategy. This includes defining what good looks like and what the team is trying to achieve for each epic.
Your responsibilities will include, ensuring your team understand and execute tasks of the highest priority, optimising resources to maximise their impact, and collaborating directly with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
With potential oversight of complex products, you will play a key role in delivering advanced mission-critical outcomes that strengthen the UK’s Defence capabilities. You might be required to assist with various projects and may, given the dynamic nature of the work, occasionally receive additional assignments in line with the Programme’s agile resourcing and delivery strategy.
Responsibilities:
* Define a product strategy that gives clear direction to your team and stakeholders, and ensuring that your products provide value, and achieve the right outcomes by balancing user and business needs.
* Apply user-centred insights to product prioritisation and decision-making, advocating for user needs.
* Ensure product benefits and performance metrics are identified, understood, measured, tracked, and owned.
* Identify opportunities to grow the adoption and usage of your product(s).
* Mentor and coach junior Product Managers, supporting their development and building expertise across the organisation.
* Act as the product champion: promote product-led, agile methodologies while shielding the team from unnecessary distractions.
You will seek out opportunities to enhance business outcomes and maximise benefits, focusing on the continuous improvement of your product's quality, capability, and efficiency, prioritising epics against business cases and emergent user requirements.
For further information on the duties of a Product Manager, please refer to the Digital Capability Framework: Product manager - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework
As a Product Manager this role involves being at the forefront of delivering the right capabilities to support the UK’s Defence strategy. You are expected to own the life cycle of your product, ensuring it aligns with Defence priorities and delivers maximum operational value. You will own defining the product value proposition and articulating a product strategy. This includes defining what good looks like and what the team is trying to achieve for each epic.
Your responsibilities will include, ensuring your team understand and execute tasks of the highest priority, optimising resources to maximise their impact, and collaborating directly with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
With potential oversight of complex products, you will play a key role in delivering advanced mission-critical outcomes that strengthen the UK’s Defence capabilities. You might be required to assist with various projects and may, given the dynamic nature of the work, occasionally receive additional assignments in line with the Programme’s agile resourcing and delivery strategy.
Responsibilities:
* Define a product strategy that gives clear direction to your team and stakeholders, and ensuring that your products provide value, and achieve the right outcomes by balancing user and business needs.
* Apply user-centred insights to product prioritisation and decision-making, advocating for user needs.
* Ensure product benefits and performance metrics are identified, understood, measured, tracked, and owned.
* Identify opportunities to grow the adoption and usage of your product(s).
* Mentor and coach junior Product Managers, supporting their development and building expertise across the organisation.
* Act as the product champion: promote product-led, agile methodologies while shielding the team from unnecessary distractions.
You will seek out opportunities to enhance business outcomes and maximise benefits, focusing on the continuous improvement of your product's quality, capability, and efficiency, prioritising epics against business cases and emergent user requirements.
For further information on the duties of a Product Manager, please refer to the Digital Capability Framework: Product manager - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework
Person specification
Are you prepared to leverage your skills and enthusiasm within our vibrant team? We invite you to collaborate with a variety of teams, influence product strategies, and develop services that foster meaningful change.
We seek individuals who possess strategic insight, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to thrive in fast-paced agile environments. Your knowledge of product management best practices and innovative thinking will be crucial in advancing Defence Digital's offerings.
Take the lead in scheduling and resource management to ensure successful product delivery, whether working independently or as part of a cohesive team. Your efforts will be vital to our goal of driving innovation and achieving success.
When Submitting Your CV, Please Highlight Your Career History And Experience Relevant To This Role. Additionally, Refer To The "Things You Need To Know" Section Of The Advert And Provide a Personal Statement (max. 1250 Words) Demonstrating The Essential criteria Listed Below:
* Explain your understanding of managing a digital product from its inception to its delivery to the customer.
* Explain your strategy for managing multiple priorities and outline how you would plan a course of action to address them.
* Please describe your experience of building, influencing, and managing relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Communicating and Influencing
* Delivering at Pace
* Making Effective Decisions
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
* Managing Product Outcomes
* Product Leadership
* Product Management
Alongside your salary of £44,590, Ministry of Defence contributes £12,917 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
* Flexible working options- we understand the importance of adapting work to your life.
* Inclusion and diversity- our culture celebrates uniqueness and encourages collaboration of diverse thought.
* A pension scheme which secures your future.
* Generous annual leave- starting with 25 days and growing to 30 after just 5 years.
* Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to volunteer for military or emergency service reserve commitments.
* Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year.
* Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
* Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club and Gyms
* You can read more here- Civil Service Employee Benefits, Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk)
Equality and Diversity
Our people are at the heart of everything we do at Defence Digital. It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of both our audience and the wider society in the UK, so we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. We also recognise the importance of a good work life balance, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part-time and job shares for all our roles. Please let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process if this is something you want to explore.
Professional Framework Statement
Defence Digital operates an organisation model in which every individual belongs to a Government Profession. The successful applicant will be posted into one of the defined Government Professions on Standard Terms of Reference for the grade. Defence Digital reserves the right to move individuals between roles, within their allocated profession, to meet the needs of the business and in support of agile resourcing.Within Defence Digital each profession is led by a Professional Head of Community who will lead professional development and support the Continuous Professional Development path for their group.
Learning & Development
In Defence Digital we have a strong learning and development ethos, supporting you to fulfil your potential by providing:
* Learning and development tailored to your role
* Professional and Personal Development of skills
* Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by MOD
* Ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by MOD
Hybrid Working
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity. Requirements to attend other locations for official business or work in another MOD office will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). The successful candidate is required to carry out all their duties from a UK location and cannot do so from an overseas location at any time. This post is working 37 hours per week.
Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions.
The post does not offer relocation expenses.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
To apply, please complete the CV template provided on the Civil Service Jobs dashboard, ensuring it clearly demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the Person Specification. You must also submit a personal statement (maximum 1,250 words) providing evidence of how you meet these criteria.
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AI Usage in Job Applications
We encourage the use of technology to streamline the job application process. Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be helpful in generating ideas, improving writing style, and increasing efficiency. However, it is essential that any content submitted as part of a job application is truthful, accurate, and a genuine reflection of the applicant’s qualifications and experiences. Any use of AI should be supplementary to your own knowledge and abilities. Ultimately, the application should demonstrate your unique skills and suitability for the role.
We’ll assess you against these Behaviours and Technical skills during the interview process:
Behaviours:
* Communicating and Influencing
* Delivering at Pace
* Making Effective Decisions
Technical Skills:
* Managing Product Outcomes
* Product Leadership
* Product Management
If you are invited to an interview, it will be conducted via Teams. We will strive to offer as much flexibility as possible, but please note that alternative dates for interviews or assessments may not be available.
The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:
* UK nationals
* nationals of the Republic of Ireland
* nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
* individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
* Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants
Job Contact :
* Name : DD Talent Acquisition Team
* Email : ukstratcomdd-hr-talentacqdel@mod.gov.uk
Recruitment team
* Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk
Further information
Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application.If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address:, Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email:
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