Lead Product Manager
NHS England
Leeds/London, SE1 8UG
Salary
£79,504 to £91,609
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
6 September 2026
6 days left
Job description
Data and Analytics is central to delivering the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, overseeing national programmes with investment exceeding £1.5 billion. This i...
- Work with NHS provider organisations, clinical teams, operational leaders and incubator sites to identify unmet needs, understand frontline challenges and translate these into clear product visions, requirements and roadmaps.
- Lead products from ideation and incubation through pilot, evaluation, adoption and scale, ensuring solutions are user-centred, evidence-based and deliver measurable operational and clinical benefits.
- Act as the senior product lead for assigned products, presenting opportunities, progress and recommendations to Product Boards and ensuring products meet governance, assurance and stage-gate requirements.
- Bring together supplier partners, technical specialists, clinicians, operational experts and programme teams to design, develop and continuously improve products that solve real-world NHS challenges.
- Champion benefits realisation, adoption, clinical safety, information governance and alignment with NHS strategic priorities, including the 10 Year Health Plan, to ensure products deliver sustainable value across the NHS.
Please see attached Assignment Briefs for more information.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master's level or equivalent qualification/delivery experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- Expert level knowledge of the product lifecycle and how products in different stages of it benefit from different design and development approaches.
- Practitioner level knowledge of emerging trends and advances in the wider digital technology landscape and modern engineering practice. Understands the range of technology and development choices available and is able to lead informed conversations and decisions based on user needs, product integrity and value for money.
Experience
Essential
- Expert level skills and experience in defining and communicating outcomes to be met by a product portfolio area and its services and/or teams - whether these are user needs, technical requirements or business-related outcomes.
- Practitioner level experience of advocating for and implementing changes that foster a culture of continuous improvement across the organisation.
- Practitioner level skills and experience in developing ambitious, outcome-focussed strategies and product visions for digital services which foster shared purpose and obtain buy-in from the team, the organisation, commissioners and delivery partners.
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
17 August 2026
Last checked
19 August 2026
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