# Lead Product Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS England. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-product-manager/3a34b611-f121-4aaf-818e-29fea584e1be - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-product-manager/3a34b611-f121-4aaf-818e-29fea584e1be.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS England - **Location:** National - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 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:** 2026-09-06T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-17T13:00:52.233Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/LeedsLondon/NHS_England/Adminastration/Adminastration-v8214775 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8214775?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.england.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview Data and Analytics is central to delivering the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, overseeing national programmes with investment exceeding £1.5 billion. This is an exciting opportunity to join NHS England at a pivotal moment and contribute to the design and delivery of some of the most ambitious digital transformation programmes ever undertaken within the NHS. We are now recruiting a number of roles to help turn the plan into reality, including growing our Product Management community; we are looking for experienced Product Managers to drive the development of innovative products from concept to delivery, translating user needs and strategic priorities into impactful solutions that improve outcomes, deliver value and support the transformation of the NHS. These roles will help create a connected digital ecosystem that empowers patients, supports clinicians with better information, and enables more coordinated care. A flexible assignment-based model is in play but the attached Assignment Briefs provide detail on the current opportunities to support: The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) which enables organisations make better decisions through data, real-time insight and emerging AI capabilities. Transforming and Connecting Care, a landmark programme which is transforming how health and care information is shared, enabling secure, seamless access to patient records across organisational boundaries through the development of a Single Patient Record. ### Main duties of the job - 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. ### 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 and Assignment Briefs. 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 ### 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. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to master’s level or equivalent qualification/delivery experience. ## Documents - [fdp 8c assignment brief (pdf, 592.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10539634) - [tcc product assignment brief (pdf, 664.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10539633) - [occupational functional requirements (pdf, 69.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10544674) - [guide to completing your application (docx, 42.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1939) - [nhse - verification of id and rtw guide (pdf, 306.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=996) - [lead product manager job description band 8c (pdf, 568.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10539632) - [note for existing nhs employees applying for fixed term vacancies (docx, 26.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2084) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.