Digital Product Manager Apprentice
IRESS FS LIMITED
England (GL50 3SH)
Closes in 12 days (Thursday 7 August 2025)
Posted on 24 July 2025
Contents
Summary
This is a genuine, hands-on role where you will learn the craft of Digital Product Management from the ground up. You'll be part of a dynamic team, helping us improve and shape the future of a product that powers a huge part of the UK's financial services industry.
- Wage
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£22,000 a year
- Training course
- Digital product manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Our working hours are 7.5 hours per day, Monday to Friday, plus an hour for lunch. The expectation is that a minimum of 3 days per week are spent in the office (60% of working week).
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Thursday 14 August 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Become a product expert (from a user's view) - by actively using The Exchange platform to understand the goals and challenges of our users (financial advisors)
- Support user and market insight activity - by analysing customer feedback, taking notes in client meetings, and helping the team stay informed on market trends
- Contributing to product delivery - by assisting in the definition of new features (e.g. writing user stories) and performing hands-on testing to ensure high quality before release
- Ensuring clear team communication - by creating product documentation, writing release notes for new features, and helping to coordinate key meetings throughout the product lifecycle
Where you'll work
Honeybourne Place
Jessop Avenue
Cheltenham
England
GL50 3SH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
QA LIMITED
Training course
Digital product manager (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Diagnose problems by breaking problems down systematically into component parts and identify the relationships between those parts.
- Reflect critically on results/data/insights to identify improvements.
- Utilise iterative and sequential methodologies as appropriate to develop products.
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team through two or more phases of the product delivery lifecycle.
- Manage the operational running of a live product or service.
- Identify, understand, and define problems, analyse and help to identify the appropriate solution using relevant methodologies, principles and approaches.
- Support the development of artifacts for assessment.
- Translate back log and roadmap, and show how it aligns to strategy.
- Identify users, who they are, and what their needs are, based on evidence.
- Define user stories, write stories and acceptance criteria.
- Engage various stakeholders, utilise the vision, goals, KPI’s and objectives for the product or service.
- Ensure methods and techniques for structured reviews are applied, for example but not limited to peer review, formal technical review, user research and testing.
- Utilise planning and prioritisation techniques to organise and manage the product backlog to deliver value and benefits.
- Produce reports, roadmaps, plans to report progress and support governance processes and stakeholder management at various levels within the organisation.
- Use product management life cycle tools and techniques. Where appropriate automate mechanical tasks such as scheduling, resource balancing, and time recording.
- Manage, mitigate and investigate product risks and ensuring product meets the need of its users.
- Use data to inform decision making.
- Diagnose problems by breaking problems down systematically into component parts and identify the relationships between those parts.
- Reflect critically on results/data/insights to identify improvements.
- Utilise iterative and sequential methodologies as appropriate to develop products.
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team through two or more phases of the product delivery lifecycle.
- Manage the operational running of a live product or service.
- Identify, understand, and define problems, analyse and help to identify the appropriate solution using relevant methodologies, principles and approaches.
- Support the development of artifacts for assessment.
- Translate back log and roadmap, and show how it aligns to strategy.
- Identify users, who they are, and what their needs are, based on evidence.
- Define user stories, write stories and acceptance criteria.
- Engage various stakeholders, utilise the vision, goals, KPI’s and objectives for the product or service.
- Ensure methods and techniques for structured reviews are applied, for example but not limited to peer review, formal technical review, user research and testing.
- Utilise planning and prioritisation techniques to organise and manage the product backlog to deliver value and benefits.
- Produce reports, roadmaps, plans to report progress and support governance processes and stakeholder management at various levels within the organisation.
- Use product management life cycle tools and techniques. Where appropriate automate mechanical tasks such as scheduling, resource balancing, and time recording.
- Manage, mitigate and investigate product risks and ensuring product meets the need of its users.
- Use data to inform decision making.
Training schedule
The Digital Product Manager Apprenticeship is an 18-month programme that will equip learners with the skills and knowledge they need to become a successful digital product manager. They will learn how to:
- Run research and discovery to develop products that deliver value
- Understand the user experience and design process
- Develop and manage product requirements
- Work with cross-functional teams to deliver products on time and on budget
- Measure and improve the success of products
Apprentices will be able to move forward in their roles taking on more responsibility and more complex tasks related to Product Management. This programme is specifically aligned to The Institute for Apprenticeships’ Occupational Profile for Digital Product Manager Level 4.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
BTEC in:
Other in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
Other requirements
The deadline for applications is Sunday, 4th August. However, we encourage early applications, as this role may close ahead of the advertised deadline if we receive a high volume of interest. Onsite interviews for this position will be held at Iress’ Cheltenham office between the 18th and 20th of August. Please ensure you are available on one of these dates, as we will not be able to proceed with your application otherwise.
About this employer
Iress is a global company with offices in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and the UK. Businesses and people across the globe use Iress software to harness the power of technology to enable a smarter financial system that delivers more for everybody. We believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level - from the world’s most iconic financial services brands to advice firms of all sizes, banks, insurers, investment managers, traders and brokers.
Company benefits
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After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of your apprenticeship, you can look forward to transitioning into an Associate Product Manager role. In this position, you will support the wider product management and delivery teams on the products you will be responsible for, playing a key role in their ongoing success.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
QA LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333600.
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Closes in 12 days (Thursday 7 August 2025)
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