Product Owner

**Product Owner**

Are you a Product Owner with the ability to deliver value for our?clients? Could you be responsible for your own?product?backlog? As a Product Owner, you will work within an Agile Scrum team and get to know our clients’ roles, needs, pressures and measuresof success, to identify how creative products?can?help them to get their work done.?

If having a positive culture matter to you, as a member of the Keoghs IT department, you will engage with a great team who love new technologies. We have a fast-growing working environment, where we empower and trust our team to work independently whilstalso pulling together to achieve our objectives.?

**Key Accountabilities**

You will be a key decision maker, working closely with the senior leaders and key team members to craft and deliver stories that ultimately help us to achieve our aims and objectives.?

You will own your own backlog, agree priorities and ensure that the backlog is ordered correctly.?

You will take an active role in assisting the?senior leaders with the product/service life cycle - involved in planning, process design, deployment and benefits realization.?

You will work closely with key team members?to understand required changes, facilitate communication between the team and the other interested parties and ensure the team is directed to work on the most cost effective tasks.?

Create user stories to breakdown features and epics into end to end functionality?

Create user story acceptance criteria using the Given-When-Then Gherkin format??

Work with?the team to?develop?UI/UX?wireframes and prototypes, ensuring a user?centered?design approach?

Working Hours 35 hours per week, Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm with 1 unpaid hour for lunch. Primary location for this role is home working

**Essential Skills and Attributes**:
You will be a self-starter with a strong work ethic that can work with limited supervision.?

You should have a strong client focus and consistent track record of delivering to user needs?

You will need to be a skilled problem solver; a key requirement for this role is being able to deconstruct problems into constituent parts in order to come to the best solution.?

Good communication skills both written and verbal are also a requirement.??

Being focused and accurate, you will need to have a data driven approach to feature development?

You should have experience of user?centered?design and have a keen interest in UI design and user experience?

You will have an open and expansive approach, willing and able to interact internally and externally and at all levels within the company.?

You will show a highly committed attitude.?

**How we will support you**:
We are flexible with working hours and will generally work around your needs where we can?

This role is mostly remote working. All we ask is that you are willing to come into our office in Bolton or a location in the surrounding area on an occasional basis, possibly a handful of times a year.??

We will provide you with support from our?senior leadership team to learn and improve our working practices?

We will provide you with a coach to support you with your professional development plan??

You will find that your colleagues are down-to-earth and make for good team-mates.??

**Values**

Our culture is focussed on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our five values are at the heart of everything we do;
**Keoghs Values**

We listen, are down to earth and supportive

We work together towards a common goal

We’re friendly with a can do attitude

We care about our clients

We evolve

Bupa, 25 days holiday plus BH, Pension, Simply Health