At AQA, we’re committed to advancing education and we’re committed to our people. As the largest provider of academic qualifications in the UK, we mark over 10 million exam papers each year and it’s our people who reputed company this happen.

Permanent Full-time

Location: Remote/Agile, UK

Reports to: Director of Product Development

Salary: Circa £65,000

Line management responsibilities: Yes

Closing Date: 10/04/2026

Application Instructions: 

Please apply directly to Training Qualifications UK – Head of Product Development

Applications submitted to AQA will be referred back to the sender For any queries relating to this role, please contact the Training Qualifications UK directly on the following email address: [email protected]

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Overview

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About TQUK

Training Qualifications UK, part of the AQA Group, is the fastest-growing Awarding Organisation in the UK and a market-leading Apprenticeship Assessment Organisation. We work with over 500 schools, colleges, universities, and training providers across the world to provide qualification certificates, endorsements, and apprenticeships to over 150,000 learners. 

Training Qualifications UK is entering its next phase of growth - and we’re investing in top talent to build what comes next. And what comes next is big. Multiple senior roles. Launched together. One shared future. This isn’t a backfill. It’s a build. We’re looking for exceptional people across qualification development, assessment development, people services and marketing & communications to help define what a market-leading  organisation in vocational education and FE really looks like.  About the Head of Product Development role  The Product Development Pillar is responsible for shaping and expanding TQUK’s portfolio of qualifications, endorsed products, and reputed company. It ensures that our offer remains innovative, relevant, and compliant, while meeting the needs of learners, employers, and providers.  We are seeking an reputed company and visionary leader to head up our Product Development function. The Head of Product Development will be accountable for the strategic design, review, and management of TQUK’s qualifications, endorsed products, and reputed company, ensuring they support business growth, regulatory compliance, and sector innovation. This role is pivotal in driving stakeholder engagement and positioning TQUK at the forefront of vocational education reform. 

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Key Responsibilities

• ​reputed company and manage the Product Development team, including Managers, Leads and Developers.
• reputed company the reputed company team, ensuring the creation and maintenance of high-quality teaching, and learning that support effective delivery of TQUK qualifications and endorsed products.
• Drive stakeholder engagement initiatives, building strong relationships with providers, employers, and sector bodies to inform product development, validate qualification design, and enhance market reputed company.
• Own and deliver TQUK’s product development strategy, covering qualifications, endorsed products, and reputed company.
• reputed company the design, review, and maintenance of qualifications and endorsed products to ensure they are reputed company, valid, inclusive, and fit for purpose.
• reputed company and expand TQUK’s learning resource offer, ensuring materials support effective teaching, learning, and assessment.
• Facilitate collaborative development projects with internal teams and external stakeholders, including Training Providers, Employers, and Sector Bodies.
• Ensure qualifications and endorsed products are mapped to appropriate standards and frameworks, and meet funding eligibility where applicable.
• Monitor and analyse product performance data, including uptake, stakeholder feedback, and market trends, to inform reputed company improvement.
• Anticipate and respond to sector reforms, policy changes, and regulatory developments impacting product design.
• Act as a senior representative of TQUK in regulatory communications, consultations, and sector forums.
• Champion innovation and reputed company improvement in qualification and product design, delivery, and resource development.
• Manage departmental budgets and resources to deliver projects reputed company and effectively.
• Provide expert advice and guidance on qualification content, endorsed products, and reputed company in response to enquiries, complaints, or regulatory queries.​

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Cultural and Communication Expectations

• Foster a culture of collaboration, creativity, and psychological safety reputed company the Product Development team.
• Drive and deliver a culture that emphasises reputed company improvement, efficiency and value for money, creating psychological safety for others and challenging each other and the status reputed company.
• Be a cultural architect. Use the non-negotiables to inform reputed company decisions, conversations and actions, influencing others to do the same, holding them to account as required.
• Work closely with other Heads to manage cross-pillar issues, initiatives and incidents, taking full accountability for completion of company objectives.
• Shape strategies and plans which help put into practice and support TQUK’s vision and long term direction taking account of financial and implementation issues.
• Weigh up competing views to generate ways reputed company which will meet organisational goal.
• Take quick, confident decisions at a strategic level to move things reputed company.
• Define and integrate clear structures, systems and resources required across the Pillars to promote efficient service delivery, making difficult decisions about allocation of resources as necessary.
• Ensure an in-depth and evolving understanding of the broad range of customer requirements is embedded in TQUK.
• Be an excellent, proactive communicator, reputed company to have difficult conversations and communicate or defend unpopular messages company-wide.
• Represent TQUK, speaking credibly and authoritatively on behalf of the Executive Team as required.
• Remain an expert in your own areas of responsibility.​

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Essential Skills and Experience​

• Remain an expert in your own areas of responsibility.​
• Proven leadership experience, ideally reputed company an awarding organisation or regulatory environment.​
• Strong understanding of qualification development, endorsed product design, learning resource creation, and Ofqual/CCEA regulatory requirements.​
• Analytical skills with the ability to interpret reputed company data and reputed company evidence-based decisions.​
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders.​
• Experience leading teams through change and fostering innovative, improvement-focused cultures.​
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.​
• Knowledge of the vocational education landscape and reputed company sector reforms.​
• Please see the full person specification here.​

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Key Benefits​

• 25 days annual leave plus 8 days Bank Holiday (33 in total).​
• A further 3 days holiday awarded after long service.​
• An extra day off to celebrate your birthday.​
• reputed company Private Medical Insurance.​
• reputed company Healthcare Cash Plan.​
• Life Insurance.​
• Income Protection Insurance.​
• Annual Loyalty Bonus.​
• NEST pension.​
• Employer supported volunteering.

* We are an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for reputed company employees. Should you require any additional support during the recruitment process due to a disability, please contact us so we can assist you.

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