Head of Product - Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom - NHS Professionals

NHS Professionals

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Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About The Role:

Are you an experienced Head of Product or Senior Product Manager looking for an opportunity to make a real difference to our NHS?

Are you a strong leader, driven by a desire to make processes and systems smarter, simpler and faster?

We are currently looking to appoint a Head of Product to join us, as we strive to become the NHS workforce partner of choice.

One of key aims of this role will be to improve corporate performance by managing and optimising NHS Professionals' core business & customer facing systems.

The Head of Product will have overall responsibility for ensuring that business process improvements and functional system improvements are delivered to time, cost and quality measures ensuring that stakeholder views and relationships are engaged.

You will ensure that all products under your management have a clearly defined three-year roadmap.

This roadmap will be detailed to function level in the first 6 months and rise to a high-level milestones-based approach by the end of the three years.

Therefore, it is essential for the Head of Product to be aware of the bigger picture and industry trends, and equally the details of individual products.

You will be leading 5 experienced Product Managers and play a key part in developing your team, creating an environment that helps them succeed, and improving the effectiveness of the product management function.

As a key member of the IT Management Team, you will be reporting to the Director of Product and working closely with all areas of the wider business including the IT Senior Leadership Team and the IT Business Partnership Team.

Be educated to degree level or have equivalent qualifications including Certified SAFe practitioner / product manager, Prince2 Practitioner or equivalent experience in Project Management or Equivalent Agile solution delivery experience
Have demonstrable experience mentoring / leading Product Management teams
Have extensive knowledge of Agile practices, Salesforce and cloudbased technologies in particular MS Azure
Developing effective working relationships with project and business teams to ensure optimum outcome for our customers and end users
Significant experience in influencing and managing stakeholders, with emphasis on roadmap prioritisation
Experience in vendor management negotiation, ensuring correct business level requirements upon SLA's
Coordination and control of external suppliers to ensure project success

If you are looking for a role that is a blend of technical, strategic, and commercial responsibility, then this is the role for you

About Us:

In return for your commitment, we will offer you some fantastic benefits:

Generous annual leave allowance
27 days per year, plus bank holidays

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Flexible Working - we offer a range of flexible working options that include working from home or part time hours
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A commitment to talent management & development:

Star of the Month
Our star of the month award enables you to recognise colleagues or teams that have gone the extra mile and they could win £100 worth of shopping vouchers

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Pension

We'll contribute up to 10% towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme

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Life Assurance:

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Group Income Protection:

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Wellbeing Programme:

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Employee Assistance Programme:

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Employee Engagement & discounts platform

Our Commitment to You:

The
Compelling Employee Journey is our people development initiative that ensures whatever your path through NHSP you have opportunities to feel
_empowered, engaged and excel_ in what you do.

Throughout your employment you will have access to our
Institute of Learning (IoL) our blended learning platform providing with you with a wide range of blended learning solutions to personalise your
Compelling Employee Journey, helping and supporting you to be the best you can be through learning, development and personal growth.

About Us:

NHS Professionals (NHSP) run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS Trusts to meet their short, medium and long-term needs.

Uniquely we are owned by the Department of Health and Social Care and we therefore reinvest any surplus we make directly back into the NHS.

We are particularly proud of being the first NHS organisation to gain the accreditation of
Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute.

This is a huge testament to our ongoing commitment to making NHSP a great place to work for all our corporate employees.