Product Owner

**Who are we?**

Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes, keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing.

At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open.

**What you’ll be doing**

You’ll be an agile professional, essential to helping Thames Water achieve its ambition as the leading digital first utility company. This role is integral to the new product delivery methodology currently being pioneered within the technology department. You’ll be the key to a shift to Rapid Delivery culture across the organisation.

You’ll be solely responsible for the value of the product that you are building including the strategy and the prioritisation of the product roadmap. Additionally, you’ll 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.

You’ll be a visionary who recognises needs and opportunities and work in your delivery team to turn ideas into reality. You love technology & understand how it can solve problems for real users.

You’ll develop excellent relationships with all areas of Thames Water and be equally comfortable interacting with end users of the product and senior stakeholders. You will work transparently and be able to explain your prioritisation decisions in a way which makes sense to the stakeholders and protects the team.

**What you should bring to the role**
- Strategic thinker who can see the big picture and ask the astute questions to drive business outcomes
- Ability to structure, frame strategic issues, identify key analytics and drive to outcome
- Developed awareness of various lean, agile delivery practices and experience of working with agile development
- A strong data/reporting skill set
- 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 of building effective relationships with all levels of the business including senior stakeholders
- 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

**What’s in it for you?**

We’re proud of the positive ways of working we’ve adopted during the pandemic, creating a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we’re moving to a hybrid approach with various options across working from home, office and our sites.

Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service and a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Thames Water is a dynamic, rewarding and diverse place to work, with opportunities around every corner. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career and flexible working arrangements.

Find out more about working at Thames Water

We deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and the environment can thrive. This means, when a crisis happens, we all rally round to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an Ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and a earn bit of extra money along the way.