Digital Product Owner

**Digital Product Owner**

**Bedford, UK**

**Circa £45,000 - £55,000 DOE + Bonus + Benefits**

SPD Swiss Precision Diagnostics GmbH (SPD) is a **world leader** in the research, design and supply of advanced consumer diagnostic products. SPD was formed in 2007 as a joint venture between **Procter & Gamble (P&G)** and **Alere (now Abbott)** and our brands, such as **Clearblue**, are recognised all over the world as providing accurate home pregnancy and fertility monitoring tests.

We are recruiting for a **Digital Product Owner**with a focus on **Innovation**to join our Marketing Department based at our **Innovation Centre in Bedford, UK**. This role reports to the Marketing Director Global Fertility Innovation based in Geneva, Switzerland and works closely with the Software Team based in Bedford, UK.

**Accelerating innovation** is a critical priority at SPD, with this role central to this focus. At high velocity, this role manages the **development and delivery of consumer-centric apps** to enable consumer diagnostic products. The role bridges marketing and technical teams and requires close collaboration and influencing of **multi-functional innovation project teams.**

**Main Responsibilities**

You will be responsible for designing digital app products and will be the key liaison in delivering these products;
- Translate consumer & business requirements to technical solutions in partnership with Software team and be the vision keeper for the app
- Lead sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, emphasizing compliance and quality assurance
- Act as a liaison between stakeholders, regulatory teams, and the development team to ensure alignment on compliance issues.
- Plan and execute consumer experiments (e.g., 1Q, A/B testing, Transactional Learning Experiments, User Testing), mine usage and analytics data to uncover consumer insights, delighters, points of friction and opportunities in order to recommend iterative improvements of product/user experience/value
- Support the Brand Director in designing and refining the overall product strategy
- Contribute to future innovation development under guidance of Marketing team
- Create and manage the product roadmap with accountability for delivery timings
- Initiate, own and manage the app development Critical Path Schedule with the support of the Project Manager.
- Extensive relevant work experience as a Product Owner with broad, in-depth experience of managing the end-to-end lifecycle of digital products/apps in a wide range of products/sectors, including direct-to-consumer digital solutions (such as app & websites)
- Preferable to have some experience in healthcare or other regulated industries (ideally experience of working in a medical device company or QMS (ISO13485, ISO62304)
- Proven technical background in of the areas below:

- Programming languages
- Hosting environment (ideally Azure or AWS)
- Data modelling
- Design UX/UI process
- Proven expertise in issue and project tracking software tools (such as JIRA)
- Expertise in crafting user stories
- Experience with testing hypotheses rapidly on digital platforms (e.g. A/B testing, UserTesting, Google trends, Google Keyword Planner etc.)
- Highly organised individual with proven track-record of digital project management
- Advanced problem solver to manage through conflicting priorities.
- A positive, get-stuff-done, collaborative spirit who can flow to the work and adapt to the challenges of working within a highly regulated environment

**We can offer you**
- Competitive salary and bonus
- Hybrid Working - 3 days a week working from our Bedford site, 2 days a week working from home, with flexibility
- 25 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays
- Company pension scheme with competitive employer contribution
- Private Medical Insurance with additional Medical Cash Plan
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Company supported employee Health & Wellbeing programme
- Life assurance
- Free electrical car charging points
- Ample free parking
- Parkland setting with excellent transportation links to Cambridge, Milton Keynes Northampton and London

**You**must have the right to work in the UK. SPD are not in a position to provide sponsorship for this role.**

**We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.**

SPD Swiss Precision Diagnostics GmbH (SPD) is a world leader in the research, design and marketing of advanced consumer diagnostic products.

Our SPD research centre is at the cutting edge of innovation, and is fully engaged in the development of reliable diagnostic products to empower women on their reproductive journey. We are committed to answering the needs of our existing and future consumers, through a continuous flow of new and innovative products.