# Head of Product

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS England.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** NHS England
- **Location:** Any NHSE Office, National, SE1 8UG, West Yorkshire
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £94,356 - £108,814 per annum (exclusive of London weighting)
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-30T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16T15:09:56.390Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/National/NHS_England/Administration/Administration-v8287653
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8287653?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.england.nhs.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

This is an opportunity for an experienced product leader to join an established programme bringing data-driven products to bear on some of the most important and complex challenges facing the NHS. These include improving the use of data across the health and care system, driving productivity improvements, and supporting the return to constitutional standards. This is a business-critical role that supports the delivery of the FDP Core 6, which underpins NHS Board, Ministerial and 10 Year Health Plan commitments to improve how data is used across the NHS, providing productivity improvements and supporting the return to constitutional standards.

### Main duties of the job

The post holder will be Head of Product for the Federated Data Platform (FDP) programme, leading product strategy and delivery across their workstream and ensuring key stakeholder alignment throughout. You will work with senior stakeholders across NHS England, DHSC, trusts and integrated care systems to understand needs, identify priorities, and translate them into practical, deliverable products that improve outcomes for patients, clinicians, managers and care staff.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, and person specification in the attached Job Description. Please ensure your supporting statement includes demonstratable evidence and specific examples on how you meet the criteria for each of the key skills specified. This will be used in both the shortlisting and interview processes.

### Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with proven ability to influence credibly at senior and executive levels, negotiate beneficial outcomes across diverse groups, and act as an ambassador delivering key messages to large, varied and influential audiences — directly relevant to leading stakeholder alignment across the FDP workstream

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Expert knowledge of digital and IT programme and project management, with extensive practical understanding of agile and other structured project/programme management methodologies, and significant experience of user-centred service design for both public-facing and internal services.

### Experience

**Essential**

- Extensive product delivery experience, including leading multidisciplinary teams using agile methodologies, defining product vision, strategy and roadmaps, and tracking delivery performance (risks, issues, dependencies and KPIs) within complex programmes — ideally in the public sector, NHS or other health/care settings.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to master's level, or equivalent relevant working experience/qualifications, supported by evidence of continued professional development and demonstrable proficiency in product or IT project and programme management. Evidence sought: Stated qualification level or equivalent experience; CPD record; relevant product/programme management certification or equivalent.

## Documents

- [guide to completing your application (docx, 42.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1939)
- [job description & person specification (pdf, 368.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10620321)
- [nhse - verification of id and rtw guide (pdf, 306.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=996)
- [occupational functional requirements form (pdf, 69.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10620322)

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