Product Management Consultant

About the job you’re considering

As a Product Management Consultant, you will work with our customers to define, build and improve excellent digital products and services. In Domains UK we specialise in digital transformation and believe that being product-centric is essential to achieving meaningful outcomes. We champion user-centred thinking and work with our clients to both design change and support full delivery of change. 

We consider ourselves ‘product people’ and work across the different definitions of ‘product owner’ and ‘product manager’ with our clients. Alongside delivering excellent product management to our clients, we need someone who can help build our product management capability internally and help grow our knowledge base. 

Your Role

• Act as a product manager for our clients, balancing the client’s strategy with the business, technical and user needs to deliver excellent digital products and services
• Work closely with BAs, UX, user research, technical teams, change managers and business operational teams to understand pain points and opportunities within products and services - focusing on the full end to end journey
• Have deep empathy for users / customers and work closely with user researchers to structure research to find user needs and pain points, work with UX colleagues to create and test prototypes
• Translate insight, customer needs and product strategy into an actionable product roadmap and backlog
• Create and prioritise product and service roadmaps and backlogs, balancing all different viewpoints whilst being pragmatic and confident with decisions
• Own and develop metrics to determine performance and benefits, working with performance analysts, be data driven with decisions and outcomes
• Research and develop a compelling business case for a product and deliver that product in a way that is financially and commercially viable
• Analyse the external market and competition to identify opportunities, work with marketing teams as required
• Able to take a product through its full lifecycle from inception to live, working with stakeholders, product designers and engineers to iteratively release and adapt a product that is valuable, usable, feasible and viable. 
• Make a strong contribution to development of method and expand the knowledge base within the team
• Coach our people, particularly our large graduate community

Desirable:

• Understanding of product and service operating models to help clients develop their digital product vision and strategy
• Ability to coach and develop product management skills in client teams
• Experience in public sector product management and GDS
• Involvement in sales and pre-sales related content around contributing to proposals, presenting and managing proposals

Your Skills and Experience

• Experience as a product manager / product owner either in industry or in consulting
• Agile by default – strong knowledge of agile development practices
• Fantastic consulting skills – facilitating workshops, solving complex problems, writing documents, delivering compelling messages, gaining trust, working with uncertainty, thinking on your feet! – will all be second nature to you
• You – bring your values, energy, motivation and sense of humor to add to and enhance our team and culture

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.

As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance and pre-employment checks

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:  identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service) 

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. 
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

Shape Your Path
You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Flexibility to work your way
You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance.  Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

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