Senior Product Manager
| Job Type | Contract |
| Location | National |
| Area | Uk-wide, UK |
| Sector | Central Government |
| Salary | £740 Per Day |
| Start Date | September 23rd, 2026 |
| Advertiser | Ashley Price |
| Job Ref | 7716 - PSR1JP00105695 |
| IR35 | Inside |
| Security Clearance | DBS/DS |
- Description
- The Client:
A government client is looking for a Senior Product Manager to join them on a 9 month contract. The role offers hybrid working and can be based anywhere within the UK.
Job Summary:
We require a Senior Product Manager to provide urgent product leadership for Safety Transformation across Prisons Digital. This is not a single, narrowly defined product. The role will support transformation of how safety is managed across prisons, which may include multiple services, products, policy changes, operational practice improvements and digital capabilities across the wider safety landscape.
The Safety Transformation vision is to improve safety through better identification, understanding and response to vulnerability, risk and harmful behaviour, enabled by improvements to operational practice, service design and digital capability. The work will focus on how safety-related risk is identified, understood, recorded, shared and acted upon across prison environments, including areas such as ACCT, CSIP, segregation, vulnerability, harmful behaviour and wider safety management processes.
The Senior Product Manager will work with prison officers, Safer Custody teams, Governors, prisoners’ representatives/insight, Safety policy leads, service owners, operational stakeholders, managed service teams and Prisons Digital leadership. The role will ensure that work is grounded in operational reality and supports the needs of frontline staff, operational leaders and prisoners.
The post holder will be expected to:
- Shape the product vision, strategy and roadmap for Safety Transformation across multiple strands of discovery, experimentation and delivery;
- Define and prioritise MVP options for improving safety in prisons, recognising that the solution may include digital, service, operational and policy interventions;
- Lead prioritisation of the managed service team backlog to ensure effort is focused on the highest-value safety problems;
- Align product direction with policy owners, service owners, Safety stakeholders, operational leaders and prison users;
- Ensure work meets client/GDS standards and is evidence-led, human-centred, safe and operationally viable;
- Support discovery, alpha and beta activity across multiple strands of experimentation;
- Improve understanding of data and information flows across NOMIS, DPS and other relevant systems;
- Support safe testing, prioritisation and evaluation of new capabilities or service changes;
- Prepare the work for transition to permanent product ownership, including documented roadmaps, backlog, decisions, evidence, risks and stakeholder relationships.
This role supports a core HMPPS business strategy priority and the ABR-funded commitment to address safety management across the prison estate. It will help build the evidence base for future investment decisions and reduce the risk of underspend or poorly allocated spend across the three-year funding period.
Skills & experience required bullet points:
- Strong experience setting product vision, strategy and roadmaps for complex or high-risk services.
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and prioritise work using user insight, data and organisational outcomes.
- Demonstrable experience coaching and mentoring Product Managers, improving capability and strengthening product practice.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including influencing senior leaders and building agreement across organisational boundaries.
- Experience leading products through discovery, alpha, beta and live service using Agile and Lean approaches.
- Ability to manage risks, dependencies and investment to deliver measurable value for money.
Our Company:
Malikshaw Interim & Executive is a specialist provider of talent management solutions helping our clients transform the delivery of our public services. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we combine providing the best talent with delivering diverse, inclusive workforces and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people, and women.
How to Apply:
Please apply through the link provided to send your application directly to the Recruiter managing this assignment.
Disability Confident:
As a member of the disability confident scheme, the Client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Armed Forces Covenant:
As a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, the Client guarantees to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify for any of the above, please notify us on your covering letter and your recruiter will confirm if the client is a member. We will then be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
- Shape the product vision, strategy and roadmap for Safety Transformation across multiple strands of discovery, experimentation and delivery;
