Product Owner

**Product Owner**

**High Wycombe HP11 2EE**

**Hybrid working - 3 days office based**

IPC EMEA, the purchasing and supply chain organisation for Subway Franchisees in Europe, has an excellent opportunity for a Product Owner to join our Enterprise Systems team.

**The role **

The Product Owner will be responsible for developing & maintaining our technology products. Working with internal stakeholders to drive our technology roadmap to achieve our business goals.

This is an internal customer facing role, requiring collaboration and a desire to manage best in class technology products.

**Accountable for **
- Evolving product roadmaps in order that the tech products continue to drive the required business outcomes and priorities for given domains
- Undertake facilitation to establish customer needs and then distil these into product strategies, roadmaps and prioritised product backlogs
- Understand the rationale behind competitors strategies through market analysis identifying the key differentiators to ensure IPC is heading towards world class service delivery
- Partnering with the business functions to leverage technology to advance business performance, and to develop innovative technology solutions to solve meaningful customer problems
- Support Development Managers craft business cases when required, that include costs and business/user benefit to ensure the right product development is prioritised
- Prioritising product features & stories to maximise business value to drive the success of the product, ensuring solutions are valuable, viable, and usable for the customer
- Within Transformation & Technology being the voice of the customer for both product design and technology delivery
- Direct internal and 3rd party development, ensuring solutions are developed which meet the needs of the customer
- Be the ultimate point of acceptance, on behalf of the customer
- Supporting the Enterprise Business Analyst in the shaping of required To-Be business processes, which will maximise product effectiveness
- Working with the COE/change management practitioners, ensuring products are launched correctly with the appropriate stakeholder management and communications in place, and which maximise solution/product adoption
- Tracking product success measurement, which balances short term goals with longer term objectives, and thus drive decision-making for when to adjust, refine or pivot the product roadmap

**What is important to us **

Our culture and values are at the heart of everything we do and are an important part of our hiring process.

Our three values are:

- **We are empowered** - we have the freedom to make a difference together.
- ** We collaborate** - we trust and depend on each other. We contribute. We succeed together.
- **We deliver on our commitments** - we deliver on our commitments together, individually, today and tomorrow.

**How we support our employees **

Joining a new company can be daunting; we support everyone who has chosen IPC EMEA to develop their career with:

- A structured onboarding programme.
- Time with the senior leadership team, as well as your colleagues and our Culture Champions.
- Training programmes to develop your skills and ways of working, focusing on feedback and management of work.
- Flexible working between the hours 8am - 6.30pm. We appreciate the juggle of life and home can be challenging and provide opportunities to flex your start and leave times.
- Excellent benefits package including enhanced pension contribution, healthcare, 25 days holiday, salary sacrifice schemes. Plus, we also provide breakfast and lunch items in the office
- On-site parking
- A chance to volunteer at our nominated charities. In addition, you will get one volunteer day a year to work with your chosen charity.
- Recognition award schemes and a Summer and Winter event each year

We actively support diversity, equity and inclusion and make sure that our employees are valued and treated with dignity and respect. We encourage everyone in our business to reach their potential.

**About us**

Subway® is one of the fastest growing Franchise networks in the world and the largest submarine sandwich chain, with more than 41,500 stores more than 4,800 of which are in Europe.

IPC EMEA, (formally IPC Europe), is a non-profit making organisation owned by Subway Franchisees in Europe. The organisation was established in 2001 to enable Subway Franchisees to benefit from the discounts that come from purchasing and supplying products in large volumes. Over time, the breadth of the services we provide, and our geographic reach has grown.

Our scope now goes beyond purchasing and supply chain management as we seek to have a positive impact on every Franchisees P&L, wherever possible. We work with service providers to offer Franchisees a range of optional services such as Wi-Fi, energy, pest control and card payments. Our aim is to ensure we select the best providers, offering the best quality services at co