Pricing Data Product Owner

**Allianz Commercial**

A new opportunity has just become available and we’re looking for a Pricing Data Product Owner to join our team in Guildford.

**Flexible Working**

Here at Allianz we believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity and you to thrive.

Helping you achieve a good work life balance is important to us. Lots of our colleagues work flexibly including part time hours and/or job shares and we are happy to discuss these opportunities with you.

This role will involve working from home combined with time in our Guildford office one or two days per week.

**About Us**

In the UK, Allianz Insurance employs over 8,000 people up and down the country. The company’s Head Office is situated in Guildford, Surrey, plus we have additional support services with over 1,000 people based in Trivandrum, India.

We offer commercial insurance with a full range of products for sole traders, right up to large commercial organisations. We also provide a range of personal insurances including, home and motor, musical, legal expenses insurance and cover for pets and horses.

We're a global company, but from the very first day you join our team you’ll know that your contributions are valued. We offer world class learning and career development opportunities, while we celebrate an inclusive culture. Find out more about Allianz Insurance.

**Pricing Data Product Owner**

Want to play a key role in transforming pricing for one of the UK’s largest insurers? Join Allianz and be part of a Global organisation that is committed to defining new standards for Commercial pricing capability and investing heavily in tools and people to deliver it.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Pricing Data Product Owner. You will be responsible for the development and delivery of data to support the Pricing teams, acting as the primary interface between the Pricing teams and the Data teams. You will support change throughout the full development process from concept to delivery, evaluating all opportunities and prioritise what gets built and delivered.

You will support the Business Analysis/scum team with epic creation and Business Owners with solution validation, review of epics, user stories, designs and solutions. You also support the business validation testing of the developed solution and ensure alignment with the Architecture team.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Stakeholder Management**
- Work closely with the Pricing Managers to understand their plans and requirements and translate that into clearly defined user stories for the Data team to work with.
- Understand the product you are the owner for and be prepared to manage stakeholder’s understanding of its use and requirements.
- Be prepared to regularly demo Scrum team progress with support from the team to ensure the business areas are aware of change ahead of releases.
- Have strong communication skills working very closely with your Scrum Master and managing cross team changes with other Product Owners and Project Managers.

**PI Planning**
- Prepare for the Program Increment planning by reviewing and contributing to the Product vision, roadmap and content presentations.
- Actively engage with user story definition, provide clarifications to enable the Scrum team to create their story estimates and sequencing.
- Work with Scrum team to determine the team PI objectives for the upcoming PI.

**Backlog Maintenance**
- Act as the customer proxy to define and prioritise stories in the team backlog.
- Ensure the backlog is appropriately prioritised, visible, clear and refined ahead of sprint planning.
- Make decisions on behalf of the business on which user stories are accepted or rejected and in which sprint they will be developed, but being mindful of the need for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with greatest business benefit and some elements that are time driven.
- Maintain awareness of wider Portfolios to ensure the backlog accurately reflects support of wider initiatives which may require additional resource support and require priority. This will be achieved via close collaboration with both the Product Manager and other Product Owners.

**Scrum Team Engagement**
- Influence the Scrum team to actively engage with backlog refinement and user story writing and make yourself available to Scrum teams to answer their questions or find answers.
- Confirm the definition of “Done” as agreed by the Scrum team is in line with your expectations and nothing is obviously missing.
- Work closely with the Scrum Master to get early feedback on whether the team are on track to deliver to key delivery dates.
- Align with fellow Product Owners, Business Owners and Programme Leads to ensure design, build and test cycles are aligned.

**Decision Making**
- Sign off of all development work completed in the sprints, ensure quali