Product Owner

2 days ago


Reading, United Kingdom Thames Water Utilites Full time

**Who are we?**

We're the UK's largest water provider, with over 15 million customers to serve every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open. We make a difference daily to millions of customers by supplying 2.7 billion litres of water to around 10 million homes. Our main role is to ensure customers can turn on the tap and get world-class drinking water 24/7. We also safely transport and treat waste, returning it back to the environment.

We’re an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic, and we need you to help us to deliver excellent service so we can continue to be there for our customers.

**About the role**

The Product Owner is an agile professional, essential to helping Thames Water achieve its ambition as the leading digital-first utility company.

The role is integral to the new product delivery methodology currently being pioneered within the technology department. Product Owners are the key to a shift to a Rapid Delivery culture across the organisation.

The Product Owner is solely responsible for the value of the product that they are building including the strategy and the prioritisation of the product roadmap. Additionally, they act as the conduit for requests between the business and the development team, translating the organisation’s needs into tangible valuable outcomes to create products that will transform the business.

They are visionaries who recognise needs and opportunities and work in their delivery team to turn ideas into reality. The Product Owner loves technology & understands how it can solve problems for real users.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Strategic thinker who can see the big picture and ask astute questions to drive business outcomes
- Ability to structure, frame strategic issues, identify key analytics and drive to an outcome
- Developed awareness of various lean, agile delivery practices and experience of working with agile development tools
- Experience of continuous delivery and experience in delivering in cross-functional teams
- Ability to rapidly understand the business needs and environments, future trends, opportunities, and constraints in any business domain.
- Experience in building effective relationships with all levels of the business including senior stakeholder’s
- Excellent leadership skills - demonstrating an ability to collaborate with and motivate the product development team
- Exceptional listening, communication, and interpersonal skills to support teams in working towards a high functioning delivery culture
- Excellent organisation and planning skills
- Good presentation skills

**What’s in it for you**

The role is varied, giving you the opportunity to take responsibility and ownership, to think outside the box and to have thoughts and ideas used to create and improve processes. This is a great opportunity to contribute to making improvements - our team thrive on being challenged and ensuring that we deliver the best outcomes for our customers and our business.

Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme.

We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we’re moving to a hybrid approach where we’ll provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability.

Confident Leader and we’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.

Click here to find out more about working at Thames Water


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