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UK Health Security Agency

Associate Product Manager

The closing date is 30 July 2025

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Job summary

We are looking for an Associate Product Manager to work within the Digital Development and Operations Team, which is part of UKHSA Chief Data Officer (CDO) Group.

The CDO Group mission is to enable UKHSA to make the nation's health secure through safe and innovative digital capabilities and by the transformation of public health data, analysis, insight and surveillance. In Digital Development and Operations, we do this by delivering services which meet and maintain the Digital Service Standards (https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/digital-by-default).

We proactively partner, across UKHSA and beyond, to influence, design and deliver digital and technology products and services that underpin Agency objectives, and provide tangible, valued business and citizen health outcomes.

The Associate Product Manager is a key voice of product across Digital Development and Operations. They are embedded within the team, and it is their responsibility to create and prioritise requirements and ensure that the best product is developed to meet user needs. As an Associate Product Manager, you'll help define, explain, and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders. You'll plan the work for multi-disciplinary teams helping to build out and deliver a product roadmap. Throughout the development of the product, you will be accountable for the quality of the product, ensuring that it meets both business and user needs.

Main duties of the job

As a Product Manager, you will:

  • Work across a portfolio of activity within a multidisciplinary team to deliver solutions iteratively and improve it through multiple delivery phases
  • Work with key stakeholders and a wide range of business colleagues to identify needs and manage dependencies across the organisation
  • Develop an understanding of the users' needs and champion these in the design and delivery of your product
  • Contribute to and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders
  • Develop and maintain a high-level roadmap that helps users, colleagues and partners understand the direction and priorities of the service
  • Take ownership and management of the backlog in your portfolio by carrying out refinement activities to ensure the backlog supports the delivery of the right product and aligns with the product roadmap and wider priorities, making decisions based on evidence
  • Work collaboratively with team members and users to create user stories, including acceptance criteria and validate prior to signing off
  • Set measurable goals for your portfolio and report against these to demonstrate progress against stated benefits
  • Represent the service to meet governance commitments including
  • Digital Service Standards assessments
  • Play an active role in the product manager community sharing your learning and celebrating progress made by other people and teams

About us

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

Please visit our careers site for more information https://gov.uk/ukhsa/careers

Details

Date posted

16 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£40,661 to £50,472 a year Per Annum/Pro Rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

919-CW-308367-EXT

Job locations

Any Core HQ

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)

E14 4PU


Job description

Job responsibilities

The Associate Product Manager is a decision maker within the team, often working with a range of colleagues to make collaborative decisions but with clear responsibilities for planning, decisions on user stories content and completion, acceptance criteria and prioritisation of the backlog.

Essential criteria

You will be assessed on the below Seven essential criteria, which have been selected from the Job Description Document.

  • Agile working: is aware of agile methodology and how to apply the agile mind-set to all aspects of their work.
  • Lifecycle Perspective: understands the different phases of product delivery and is able to contribute to, plan or run these.
  • Operational Management: understand the operational processes of running and maintaining a product or service.
  • Problem Ownership: understands and identifies problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution.
  • Product Ownership: captures and translates user needs into deliverables.
  • Strategic Ownership: focuses on outcomes, not solutions. Gets the organisation and team to buy-in.
  • User focus: understands users and can identify who they are and what their needs are based on evidence.

Selection Process Details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours, Ability and Experience.

Stage 1: Application & Sift Success profiles

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed Seven essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

  • Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
  • 750- word Supporting Statement.

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria. The Application form and Supporting statement will be marked together.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

  1. Meets all essential criteria
  2. Meets some essential criteria
  3. Meets no essential criteria

Please note only pile 1 will be carried though to shortlist

Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on: -

  • Lifecycle Perspective: understands the different phases of product delivery and is able to contribute to, plan or run these.

Desirable criteria: The following which from the JDmay be used in the event of a large number of applications / large amount of successful candidates

  • Previous experience of Government digital and Digital Service Standards.

Healthjobs UK has a word limit of 1500, but your statement of suitability must be no more than 750.Please do not exceed words, we will not consider any words over and above this number. Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview & assessment

Stage 2: Interview

Success Profiles

You will be invited to a single remote interview.

Behaviours,experience and ability will be tested at interview.

There will be a 5-10, minute a Presentation.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:-

  • Changing and improving
  • Making effective decisions (lead behaviour)
  • Working together
  • Working at pace

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.

Eligibility Criteria

ExternalOpen to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Location

Hybrid any Core HQ

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce.

As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London).

Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Associate Product Manager is a decision maker within the team, often working with a range of colleagues to make collaborative decisions but with clear responsibilities for planning, decisions on user stories content and completion, acceptance criteria and prioritisation of the backlog.

Essential criteria

You will be assessed on the below Seven essential criteria, which have been selected from the Job Description Document.

  • Agile working: is aware of agile methodology and how to apply the agile mind-set to all aspects of their work.
  • Lifecycle Perspective: understands the different phases of product delivery and is able to contribute to, plan or run these.
  • Operational Management: understand the operational processes of running and maintaining a product or service.
  • Problem Ownership: understands and identifies problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution.
  • Product Ownership: captures and translates user needs into deliverables.
  • Strategic Ownership: focuses on outcomes, not solutions. Gets the organisation and team to buy-in.
  • User focus: understands users and can identify who they are and what their needs are based on evidence.

Selection Process Details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours, Ability and Experience.

Stage 1: Application & Sift Success profiles

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed Seven essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

  • Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
  • 750- word Supporting Statement.

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria. The Application form and Supporting statement will be marked together.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

  1. Meets all essential criteria
  2. Meets some essential criteria
  3. Meets no essential criteria

Please note only pile 1 will be carried though to shortlist

Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on: -

  • Lifecycle Perspective: understands the different phases of product delivery and is able to contribute to, plan or run these.

Desirable criteria: The following which from the JDmay be used in the event of a large number of applications / large amount of successful candidates

  • Previous experience of Government digital and Digital Service Standards.

Healthjobs UK has a word limit of 1500, but your statement of suitability must be no more than 750.Please do not exceed words, we will not consider any words over and above this number. Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview & assessment

Stage 2: Interview

Success Profiles

You will be invited to a single remote interview.

Behaviours,experience and ability will be tested at interview.

There will be a 5-10, minute a Presentation.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:-

  • Changing and improving
  • Making effective decisions (lead behaviour)
  • Working together
  • Working at pace

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.

Eligibility Criteria

ExternalOpen to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Location

Hybrid any Core HQ

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce.

As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London).

Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard

Person Specification

Application form & Statement of Suitablity

Essential

  • Application form & Statement of Suitablity

Behaviours

Essential

  • Changing and improving
  • Making effective decision
  • Working together
  • Working at pace
Person Specification

Application form & Statement of Suitablity

Essential

  • Application form & Statement of Suitablity

Behaviours

Essential

  • Changing and improving
  • Making effective decision
  • Working together
  • Working at pace

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Any Core HQ

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)

E14 4PU


Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Any Core HQ

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)

E14 4PU


Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Resource Support

Chris Williams

Recruitment@ukhsa.gov.uk

Details

Date posted

16 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£40,661 to £50,472 a year Per Annum/Pro Rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

919-CW-308367-EXT

Job locations

Any Core HQ

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)

E14 4PU


Supporting documents

Privacy notice

UK Health Security Agency's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)