**INSIDE IR35** **HYBRID WORKING**
Product Management, Managing and developing products or services through their full life cycle from inception, growth, maturity, decline to retirement.
* Manages the full product lifecycle to ensure that, over time, the needs of customers/users continue to be met and that financial and other benefits are achieved.
* Acts as owner/champion for one or more products or services.
* Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate product development methods, tools, and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
* Analyses market and/or user research, feedback, expert opinion, and usage data to understand needs and opportunities.
* Develops product propositions and determines product positioning and variants for different customer and user segments. Prioritises product requirements and owns the product backlog.
* Coordinates trials and product launches and supports communications and training.
* Anticipates changes in customer/user needs; adapts products and creates product retirement and transitioning plans.
Financial Management, Supporting the effective use and control of financial resources.
* Advises on financial planning, budgeting, costing, accounting, and charging using recognised accounting practices and standards.
* Develops financial plans and forecasts. Monitors and manages expenditure and examines areas where budgets and expenditure exceed agreed tolerances.
* Contributes to the definition and operation of effective financial control and decision-making.
* Analyses actual expenditure, examines variances, and advises on options in the use of available budget.
Stakeholder and Relationship Management, Influencing stakeholder attitudes, decisions, and actions for mutual benefit.
* Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups
* Translates communications/ stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables
* Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining, and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans
* Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding
* Facilitates business decision-making processes
Organisational Change Management, planning, designing, and implementing activities to transition the organisation and people to the required future state.
* Develops the change management approach and a change management plan in collaboration with sponsors, users, and project teams.
* Creates and implements action plans to ensure everything is ready for the change before going live.
* Acquires change management resources and develops their capabilities to deliver the required changes.
* Gathers feedback to allow timely improvements to the change management plan and approach.
* Assesses risks and takes preventative action.
* Develops and communicates tailored change management plans for senior stakeholder groups.
* Provides guidance and makes suggestions to support change sponsors.
Requirements definition and Management Managing, requirements through the entire delivery and operational life cycle.
* Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives.
* Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management
methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
* Obtains input from, and formal agreement to, requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders. Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.
* Establishes requirements baselines and ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.
* Contributes to the development of organisational methods and standards
Methods and tools, ensuring methods and tools are adopted and used effectively throughout the organisation.
* Provides advice, guidance, and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
* Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team level including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards.
* Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools.
* Identifies and recommends improvements. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools.
Captures and disseminates technical and business information
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
Influential and persuasive, you champion creativity and innovation. You are good at making decisions, even when you have incomplete information and time. You are highly self-motivated and able to work without a lot of direction.
Your business knowledge is broad and deep. You have strong verbal and written communication skills, underpinned by the understanding that effective communication usually involves listening more than speaking. You are good at identifying what colleagues are actually asking for. Crucially, you know how to translate information about Digital & IT into language everyone can understand.
A good understanding of current and emerging product methods, agile methodologies, and trends. You have significant experience of delivering digital products in a fast-paced environment, and experience within an agile delivery environment.
Experience of working within a heavily matrixed organisation, with the ability to drive for results.
Experience of strategic, investment and product planning ensuring alignment with business strategy and priorities, plus a good understanding of financial management, benefits management and realisation linked to business results.
LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.
Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.
