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The Planning Inspectorate is looking for a strategic leader to define and drive the digital and data product vision across the Inspectorate, ensuring alignment with government-wide strategies and user needs. It requires governance of a complex service network, overseeing product lifecycle management, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement of digital services. The ideal candidate will also lead and develop high-performing teams, foster a culture of innovation and inclusivity, and ensure effective financial and resource planning across the product portfolio. Each week involves a dynamic mix of strategic oversight, stakeholder engagement, and delivery coordination across enterprise-wide digital products and services. Key activities include: Product & Service Strategy: Shaping the strategic direction of the enterprise product suite, ensuring alignment with the organisation’s service model and identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement. Stakeholder Engagement: Regularly engaging with stakeholders across services to manage expectations, gather feedback, and ensure product alignment with business needs. Delivery Management: Picking up delivery responsibilities for cross-cutting enterprise products, ensuring smooth coordination across multiple services and teams. Product Ownership & Support: Providing guidance and support to the product management function within Digital & Data, promoting best practices and helping teams develop effective product strategies in a service-oriented environment. Continuous Improvement: Spotting and exploring opportunities to enhance ways of working, foster cross-service collaboration, and leverage emerging technologies to solve business challenges. Communication & Coordination: Maintaining clear and consistent communication around product goals, progress, and changes, both within the team and across the wider organisation. Salary New entrants to the Civil Service are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band. Internal rules apply to existing Civil Servants, i.e. level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest. This role is being advertised at Grade 7 with a salary range of £59,644 - £66,120. Working hours: Standard working week is 37 hours, flexible working hours policy available. The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people’s lives, the communities where they live and the economy. We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services. For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please visit our careers page at Office Attendance This role is contractually based at Temple Quay House, Bristol which is currently out of use due to undergoing refurbishment work. In the interim, we have the use of alternative office space in very close proximity to Bristol Temple Meads railway station. We recognise and value the mutual benefits of hybrid working and have a flexible approach to in person attendance, which can vary dependent on the requirements of individual business units - the details of which can be discussed with candidates if invited to attend an interview.

Job description DBS Technical Architects support DBS with the design and transition of shared service capabilities to meet the needs of UK Defence and its stakeholders. DBS Technical Architects ensure that Defence procurement, financial and human resource capabilities are designed and delivered in line with effective standards and strategies to meet Defence shared service capability and technology modernisation goals. The roles work as an integral part of the DBS Architecture Profession team to ensure all delivered services integrate cleanly into DBS business, technology, application, and data architecture layers. DBS Technical Architects support the implementation of the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) strategy for DBS and the vision set by the Chief Technology Officer. The post holder will: Collaborate with architects across the enterprise to assess change impacts and ensure a coherent delivery approach. Providing support and advice to other architects who are undertaking the design of new business solutions Design solutions in line with MoD design and security policy and gain approvals through the DBS Technical Design Authority governance forum. Design models and reference artifacts enabling re-use of solution components supporting other architects to conform to required processes and standards. Ensure that new business capabilities are designed for clean integration with existing services. Considering service, applications, data and technology architectural layers and including through life compliance with business and technology policy and strategy Support development of governance, processes, and tooling to monitor and manage new business design, delivery and usage across the DBS enterprise Engage with MOD, industry, and government wide leaders and technical / service experts to identify and implement best architecture practice solutions to meet business needs. Support proofs of concept for technologies and services new to DBS. Support, coach and mentor colleagues in adapting to new delivery approaches as a result of architectural design changes. Ensure architectures are compliant with DBS technical principles and contribute to achievement of the DBS Digital, Data and Technology Strategy aims

About the role We are seeking an experienced, highly skilled and motivated Product Manager to drive the evolution of our core pay & HR products, augmenting our current capabilities and driving growth opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity to join the product management team at a time where Zellis group is significantly growing and increasing its market share. In this role you will support product leaders and be responsible for the entire product lifecycle from ideation, development, launch and success measurement working closely with other business unit teams, supporting sales & marketing, implementation and customer success. You will be the driving force behind the delivery of the strategic plans of this product area, enjoying market competitiveness, delighting customers and business success. This role sits within a larger product team, as such delivery projects are dictated by legislation and strategic drivers. In this role your key responsibilities will be: Product strategy: Contribute to and execute a data driven product strategy and roadmap using defined prioritisation methods backed up by quantitative data, customer and market insight and trends. Communication: Be the voice of the customer and your product set to communicate a clear product vision internally and externally to stakeholders of all levels. Key stakeholders would be within Zellis group and customer/prospect stakeholders to support commercial teams in driving usage and new business logos. Market & competitor research: Continually research and hone feedback from customers, industry peers and analysts to deliver opportunities and solve customer problems. Product development: Collaborate and act as scrum master with products and technology delivery teams, including design, engineering, testing to define and deliver agreed roadmap items using agile methodologies. Product launch and consumption: Work with product marketing and communication teams to execute go to market activities to drive adoption, sales and growth. Delivery support: Own the repeatable model process to ensure cross-functional Zellis teams are prepared for new features and products to facilitate seamless launch and support activities. Customer Success: Be an integral part of our customer success team to elicit customer feedback and insight and drive high levels on NPS for your product area Product Monitoring: Monitor success, usage and product performance using insight tools, reviewing customer support tickets and enhancement requests. In-life support: Be the go-to subject matter expert on your product set to support other business functions

About the role We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Product Manager to lead the development and delivery of solutions that enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of configuration promotion and customer onboarding automation across environments. This role is pivotal to drive value to our customers quickly by enabling a seamless and intuitive user experience (UX) that empowers internal teams to manage configuration promotion processes for large-scale enterprise applications with ease and confidence. You will also be responsible for product management of customer onboarding automation, helping to streamline and accelerate the onboarding process through innovative tooling and process improvements. You will manage the product backlog, define and deliver roadmap items, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful implementation and adoption of new capabilities. The successful candidate will enter an agile team of product and technology professionals working from home full-time with face-to-face meetings where required. Calls are used daily to facilitate development of the product using Teams and live shares. Responsibilities: Define and execute a product strategy and roadmap focused on improving configuration promotion & onboarding processes and enabling intuitive UX. Manage and prioritise the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals, technical feasibility, and user needs. Collaborate with design and engineering teams to implement a user experience that simplifies and streamlines configuration promotion tasks. Work closely with engineering, customer success, and operations teams to deliver high-impact solutions. Dive deep into the life of implementation consultants to understand onboarding and configuration promotion processes. Identify and implement repeatable models and automation opportunities to streamline configuration workflows. Act as the voice of the customer and internal teams to ensure product decisions are informed by real-world challenges and opportunities. Use analytics and feedback loops to monitor product performance, identify areas for improvement, and iterate quickly. Collaborate with customer-facing teams to gather insights, resolve pain points, and drive adoption of new capabilities.

About the role As a Product Designer, you'll run and help scale our creative design approach used to deliver our HR & Payroll products and services. Design innovation and consumer grade experiences are at the heart of what we do to ensure we keep at the cutting edge of user experience and ahead of our competitors. You'll be involved in all stages of the design process, from concepting and prototyping to working closely with Product Developers. User first principles will be high on your agenda, but we push creative boundaries whilst considering the practicalities of what can be delivered. You'll live and breathe creativity. Please note this is a 12 month fixed-term contract based in our Bristol office on a hybrid basis. Key responsibilities will include: Innovating and evolving our products user experiences by applying user-centric design and strong systems thinking to deliver a best-in-class user experience. Creating and managing a brand illustration system for Zellis covering our flagship products. Ensuring our design system meets and leads accessibility standards by applying solid understanding of accessibility criteria and best practices. Utilising creative design techniques to look beyond the obvious and provide different design options to a given problem. Collaborating with the Front-End Developers to bridge the gap between design and engineering to ensure experience-driven outcomes. Utilising other mediums (e.g. motion design, moving image and presentations) to help communicate concepts, ideas and product promotion. Creating innovative user interface designs in response to requirements that are intuitive and have considered user needs, support product innovation, technology requirements, and business needs. Working closely with our product team to ensure designs support product visions. Working at pace whilst not compromising on accuracy and quality of execution. Working closely with Front-End Developers (especially with regards to material 3) to create components ready for usage in products. Utilising the style guides, pattern libraries, component versioning, shared vocabularies, design linters, overall governance, and approvals. Evangelising our creative design throughout the organisation.