M365 Senior Product Manager

Description & Requirements

On behalf of the Cabinet Office, we are looking for an M365 Senior Product Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 Month remote contract with occasional visits to London, Manchester, Bristol, York or Glasgow.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

Description

As we establish our M365 Centre of Excellence (CoE), we require a highly experienced M365 Product Manager on a temporary contract. This role will guide the strategic direction for stabilising our core M365 platform, rolling out productivity applications, and unlocking the automation potential of the Power Platform, ensuring all initiatives are grounded in user-centric design.

The M365 Product Manager will leverage deep subject matter expertise to align technical capabilities with user needs.

The core scope includes

• Core Platform & amp; Productivity Rollout: Defining the product strategy and feature implementation roadmap for the M365 core platform and the wider suite of M365 productivity applications.
• User-Centric Roadmap Planning: Collaborating extensively with the User Researcher to synthesise user feedback, create detailed user stories, and dynamically plan and adjust roadmaps based on these insights.
• M365 Platform Stabilisation: Assessing the newly deployed M365 platform and defining a phased strategy to resolve technical debt and security gaps.
• Power Platform Foundation & amp; Automation: Defining governance prerequisites and engaging with stakeholders to build an opportunity map for automating common business processes using the Power Platform.

Key Deliverables

• Holistic M365 & amp; Productivity Roadmap: A comprehensive, user-validated implementation roadmap covering M365 platform stabilisation, core platform features, and the rollout of productivity applications.
• Validated User Story Backlog: A prioritised backlog of user stories and epics, co-created with the User Researcher to ensure platform developments directly address end-user pain points and productivity goals.
• Power Platform Foundational Plan: A strategic roadmap outlining the deployment of Power Platform environments, governance, and security controls.
• Process Automation Opportunity Map: A prioritised matrix identifying business processes ripe for automation using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI.

Required Qualifications & amp; Experience

• Demonstrable M365 Expertise : Significant, proven experience managing and driving product strategy for enterprise-scale M365 deployments, core platforms, and productivity suites.
• User-Centric Product Management: Strong background working directly with User Researchers to translate qualitative and quantitative data into actionable user stories and strategic roadmaps.
• Power Platform Proficiency: Deep understanding of the Power Platform ecosystem and governance models.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, the Cabinet Office encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, the Cabinet Office welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".

General information

Posting ID

PIP12132

Type of employment

Contract

Organisation

Cabinet Office

Contract duration

6 Months

Location

UK Wide

Workplace Type

Remote