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Their fully integrated workforce management solution helps optimise outcomes for organisations, managers, staff and patients alike. Built by a team of dedicated healthcare veterans, and co-created with the NHS, their technology and services have been embraced by over 100 healthcare sites to date.\nPatchwork offers a range of different solutions, including temporary staff banks, which enable organisations to source temporary staff from their own pool of approved workers; ‘collaborative staff banks’, which help healthcare organisations team up with others in the same region to widen and share their temporary staffing pools; an innovative new rostering solution which enables more flexible, sustainable staffing for permanent healthcare staff; and an Agency Manager which makes it easier for managers to select appropriate temporary staff from external agencies when necessary. Patchwork Insights also provides managers with comprehensive data oversight, to monitor staffing trends, shift fill rates and pay rate escalations, and reliably plan ahead to prevent staffing gaps.\nPatchwork Health has been recognised as HSJ’s 2022 Staffing Solution of the Year, and have recently received the prestigious HSJ Partnership Award and the Spectator’s Economic Innovator of the Year Award.\nThe Role\nAs a Product Manager joining us on a six-month fixed-term contract, you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering our workforce management solutions, building products that solve meaningful problems for NHS staff and healthcare organisations across the UK.\nYou'll join a collaborative Product Team made up of Product Managers and Product Designers, working closely with Engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to drive product strategy, deliver intuitive user experiences and bring impactful solutions to market. Together, we take complex healthcare challenges and turn them into simple, scalable products that create real value for our customers and support Patchwork's continued growth.\nYou'll quickly build an understanding of our products and customers, and take ownership of meaningful product outcomes from the outset. You'll have the autonomy to tackle high-impact problems, make informed decisions using data and customer insights, and drive delivery within a fast-paced, collaborative environment.\nThis is a hands-on opportunity to make a genuine impact within six months, working closely with internal teams and directly with our NHS customers, including visits to customer sites to understand their challenges and help shape solutions that make a difference to their day-to-day working lives.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnical Leadership\nProvide guidance and mentorship to fellow Product Managers, helping to shape product strategy, embed best practices and share new ideas across the Product Team.\nChampion agile ways of working by leading high-quality product discovery, backlog management, user story creation and squad refinement sessions.\nQuickly build credibility with cross-functional stakeholders, influencing product direction, aligning priorities and driving successful outcomes without relying on 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including CARR, customer retention and product adoption, proactively identifying risks and opportunities.\nBalance commercial priorities with long-term product strategy, using customer, sales and commercial insights to inform roadmap decisions.\nCollaboration\nBuild trusted relationships with customers, actively participating in client meetings and on-site visits to understand their challenges, gather insights and communicate product direction.\nCollaborate closely with stakeholders across the business to gather requirements, explain product decisions and align teams around shared outcomes.\nFoster strong working relationships with Engineering, Design and your agile squad to deliver high-quality products.\nPartner with Revenue teams to support customer conversations, demonstrate product value and communicate future product direction.\nProactively identify dependencies across products and squads, helping to manage risks and ensure a cohesive product experience.\nDocumentation\nCreate and maintain clear product documentation, including product one-pagers, product requirement documents and other key artefacts that support successful delivery.\nResearch & Innovation\nStay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies and Product Management best practice, bringing new ideas back to the team.\nEvaluate new tools, technologies and ways of working that can improve how we build and deliver products.\nAI\nUse AI throughout the Product Management lifecycle, from discovery and prioritisation through to delivery and communication, building reusable workflows and encouraging adoption across the team.\nEvaluate AI opportunities with a customer-first mindset, considering user needs, appropriate solutions, potential risks and trust, while using competitive insights to help shape roadmap decisions.\nRequirements\nEssential\nStrong, demonstrable experience working as a Product Manager within an agile product development environment.\nSignificant experience managing SaaS 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If you have not heard from us within two weeks, you have not been selected for an interview. We pledge to always provide feedback to applicants who interview with us.\nPatchwork is an inclusive employer, and is committed to not only meeting legal requirements and standards, but our own diversity, equality, and inclusivity policies and pledges throughout all stages of the employee lifecycle. 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