Product Manager

We're looking for a motivated and capable person to join our team as a Product Manager for MRI Housing Enterprise and Document Management System (Swordfish) At Southern Housing, we are committed to delivering innovative, customer-focused services that improve outcomes for our residents and colleagues. This role plays a vital part in supporting our Data and Digital Products Strategy and helping us achieve our strategic ambitions.

Reporting to the Head of Product Innovation, you'll be responsible for owning and delivering product improvements across our systems and service landscape, ensuring products deliver value for users and support organisational objectives. You'll work closely with Data, Transformation, Technology, Service Design, Change and operational teams to ensure product development aligns with business priorities and delivers meaningful outcomes. 

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include: 

• Defining the vision and strategy for your products

• Leading the development and delivery of product roadmaps, ensuring priorities align with organisation objectives and user needs.  

• Collaborating with Product Owners and stakeholders across the business to define requirements, prioritise backlogs and translate service design into effective product solutions. 

• Champion agile methodologies and ensure scrum practices are embedded across product teams. 

• Creating and managing user stories, product backlogs and delivery plans to support successful implementation and continuous improvement. 

• Working within multidisciplinary teams to ensure products are delivered using agile principles and best practice.  

• Monitoring product performance, managing risks and supporting the successful delivery of change programmes that improve services for residents and colleagues. 

• Manage the Product Owners and Functional Consultants / Digital officers and where relevant other resources, fostering a culture of user-centred design and agile delivery.

• Build strong relationships with product stakeholders to ensure product decisions are well-informed and supported. 

• Communicating progress to the business.

• Monitor performance and ensure products meet agreed outcomes, timelines, and budgets.

• You'll also contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, improve user experiences, embed agile ways of working and support innovation across the organisation.  

This role is based at our main office in London - Farringdon with hybrid working arrangements available and agreed with your manager. Occasional travel across Southern Housing locations may be required to support business needs. 

What you'll need

• Proven experience in product management or ownership, including engaging end users in refining and delivering backlogs in an agile environment 

• Clear understanding of how to embed digital ways of thinking and working in public service organisations 

• Experience leading or working in cross-functional teams and releasing product changes and improvements to end users at pace.

• Excellent communication, collaboration and engagement skills 

• Proficiency or understanding of JIRA or similar tools 

• Experience with MRI Housing Enterprise formally known as Orchard Housing, DMS (Swordfish), MS Dynamics 365 (CRM), B2C customer platforms (contact centre, digital apps), Housing Systems. - Desirable