Product Owner, People Management

6 months ago

Reading, United Kingdom Primark Full time

Our mission in product is to solve problems with technology, in ways that our customer’s love, and that also work for our business. As the Product Owner, you will have responsibility for a product area within the larger Enterprise domain, driving product strategy and roadmap. You will work closely with a team of business analysts and the technology shared services’ team (architecture, engineering etc.) to drive business value, manage business viability risk, measure performance and communicate progress to stakeholders.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Working with Business stakeholders, set vision for your products using industry knowledge, functional expertise and your understanding of the Primark business context. Support the business owner in defining objectives that will influence the product vision
- Leading the development team in delivering value to the user
- Managing live products to ensure value is being delivered to end users. Ensuring BAU operations are achieved, and system availability is maintained
- Accountable for the release plan and strategy & cross portfolio alignment on relative priorities for the suite of products which may be identified to solve business and customer problems.
- Accountable for maximising the value of the product resulting from work of the development team and through its end-to-end lifecycle
- Responsible for the product development and operations, participating in planning (Sprint and Product increment) and providing a refined and precisely prioritised product backlog for the development team
- Understanding user needs, how the business works and driving the development of the product through clear prioritisation. Envisaging and understand the final product and convey the value it creates and what problems it solves
- Initiate and translate the product road map into a manageable product backlog and prioritise delivery based on value, risk and service considerations
- Support the articulation of sprint goals by providing product vision
- Work with the Product Manager to define, prioritise and break the feature backlog into stories, including clarification and acceptance criteria
- Collaborate closely with key team members and delivery partner to ensure the acceptance criteria of stories is met and support the release planning and sprint planning exercises
- Understand Agile estimation approaches and support the delivery team in being self-managing
- Combine awareness of the relevant business area, the retail market, our customers and other consuming technology product teams to ensure products satisfy all three
- Keep abreast of new technical developments which could improve or redefine the product and customer experience
- Support the operationalisation of the product into the mainstream organisation and ensure adoption of products across the organisation
- Support the delivery of products from wireframes to product launch to measuring engagement, working closely with the engineering team

**Knowledge & Experience Required**:

- Over 3 years’ experience in business relationship management in an IT environment
- Industry or functional expertise validated through experience working for a Retailer
- Able to clearly articulate the evolution of products through design thinking and user story mapping
- An appropriate degree, equivalent qualification or experience
- Preferably a certification in Agile Product Ownership, Scaled Agile or equivalent
- Be a passionate and visionary technologist able to inspire others to challenge and disrupt the current reality to co-create a compelling technology-orientated future business by:

- Being able to scan potential technologies (established, emerging and emergent)
- Finding ways to translate that into business opportunities
- Be able to take people along with you, empowering new ways of working and successfully executing on those opportunities
- Possess proven experience in establishing and growing products
- Have excellent knowledge of relevant business portfolio and functional expertise
- Possess excellent Business partner and supplier leadership skills
- Consistent track record of strategic and innovative thinking

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