Senior Product Manager

This a key position within the CMA's Digital Products and Application Support team in which you will own the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for enterprise products, ensuring alignment to CMA priorities and user needs.

You will work alongside key stakeholders to support the delivery of a product-led operating model while understanding needs, shaping solutions and ensuring adoption and value realisation.

About the CMA

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is the UK’s principal competition and consumer protection authority. We promote competition and protect consumers with a clear end goal in mind: to drive economic growth and improve household prosperity. The CMA has a range of powers, which it uses to undertake a wide variety of cutting-edge, high profile and complex work, spanning merger and market inquiries, competition and consumer law enforcement, our role in the digital markets competition regime, subsidy advice, and internal market advice.

You can read more about working at the CMA in our candidate pack

This role is key to embedding a product-led operating model within the CMA's Digital Products and Application Support team, ensuring clear ownership, effective prioritisation, and delivery of measurable value across assigned products and services. Working closely with the Head of Products and Applications, stakeholders across the CMA, and external suppliers, the Senior Product Manager will act as the accountable owner for enterprise products, balancing business needs, technical considerations, and service performance.

You will be responsible for managing the end-to-end product lifecycle, covering delivery, live service, and continuous improvement. This includes ensuring services remain reliable, secure, and aligned to user needs, while supporting the introduction of new capabilities including the adoption and enablement of AI to improve efficiency, insight, and service outcomes.

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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This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Application and sift stage

• As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV, personal statement and an online application form. Further details about application requirements are listed on the application form.
• The selection process will comprise of the sift (CV & personal statement review), a first stage technical interview and a second stage panel interview. Arrangements for the interviews will be enclosed in the invitation.
• Please note that it is essential that your personal statement is aligned to provide evidence that you have the knowledge and experience for each of the essential criteria (as included on the role profile attached and listed above under 'Person Specification') in your application. Your personal statement should be no more than 1250 words.
• Candidates will initially be sifted on the first two criteria points (Lead Criteria). If your application progresses to a full sift, all elements of the essential criteria listed under Person Specification will then be considered.
• We may raise the score required at sift stage to progress to interview if we receive a high number of applications and take through the highest performing candidates to the interview stage.
• Successful candidates at sift will be invited to an interview which will be conducted either in person or via Teams.

Interview stage

• At the CMA we apply a blended interview technique, allowing us to find out more about you and we use the Success Profiles framework assessing the Behaviours, Experience (essential criteria) and Technical skills listed in the advert and attached role profile.
• A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles.

There will be two interview stages. The first interview will be a 30 minute Technical interview in which you will be asked questions aligned to the required technical skills.

Candidates that are successful at the first interview will be invited to a second 45-60 minute interview in which you will be asked Technical, Behaviour and Experience questions.

Timeline (the dates outlined below are indicative and may be subject to change)

• The advert closing date is 11th September 2026 (23:55pm). We are not able to accept late applications.
• The sift is scheduled to take place from 14th September 2026
• First stage technical interviews will be held from the week commencing 5th October 2026
• Second stage interviews will be held from the week commencing 19th October 2026

Reasonable adjustments

Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments to provide you with the opportunity and support to bring your best self to the recruitment process. This could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments, or receiving interview questions in advance. We will be happy to discuss any person-centred adjustments you’d like us to make to the process and you can contact us by emailing our dedicated mailbox at adjustments@cma.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.