Product Manager

Data Product Manager

£57,000 per annum

Bedford

Permanent

Hybrid Working

Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Data Product Manager. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact by shaping, delivering and continuously improving data products that support the National Pensions Connection Service, the Pensions Dashboard and MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard programmes. You will be responsible for helping turn complex service, reporting, analytics and performance needs into trusted data products that enable informed decision-making across the pensions dashboards ecosystem, delivering value for internal users and key external stakeholders including senior leaders, regulators, government departments, delivery partners and dashboard providers.

You will lead the product direction for data products that provide a single, trusted and authoritative view of service performance. Working closely with Data Engineering, BI, Product, Operations and external suppliers, you will define user needs, shape roadmaps and backlogs, prioritise delivery, and ensure reporting, analytics and monitoring capabilities are robust, scalable and aligned to organisational and regulatory requirements. A key aspect of the role will be applying strong product management discipline to data and insight capabilities: ensuring products are evidence-led, user-centred, governed appropriately and designed to support service performance, continuous improvement, regulatory reporting and benefits realisation across a piece of national digital infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

Role Overview

The Data Product Manager will report directly to the Lead Data Product Manager within the Technology & Change directorate within the Data and Analytics team. In this role, you will be responsible for:

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Development: Lead iterative development of data products aligned with user needs and organisational goals.
• Collaboration: Work closely with BI analysts, UI/UX designers, delivery managers, and engineers to enhance usability and accessibility.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, including those with varying levels of technical understanding.
• Adaptability: Be comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving requirements in a fast-paced environment.
• Governance & Compliance: Address legal, privacy, and governance issues early in the product lifecycle.
• Evidence-Based Decisions: Use product usage data and evidence to guide prioritisation and lifecycle decisions.
• External Value: Ensure products are accessible and valuable to external bodies including government and regulators.
• Product Management: Maintain roadmaps and backlogs; translate user needs into product outcomes.
• Community Contribution: Actively contribute to the wider product community at MaPS.

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

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Recruitment Process:

• Initial Review: Our recruiter will review your CV. If it looks like a good fit, they'll reach out to arrange a call.
• Hiring Manager Review: If the recruiter thinks you're suitable, your CV will be passed to the hiring manager, who will decide whether to invite you for an interview.
• Interview: If selected, you'll participate in a virtual interview. This single-stage process allows you to demonstrate your skills and experience through competency-based questions. This will also require you to deliver a short presentation.

Career Development

In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.

Reserve List

If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.

Application Process

The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: recruitment@maps.org.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.

Job Reference: MaPS01353

Close Date: 13/10/2026

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