Product Owner

Orbit is a fantastic business and one that’s really going places.

Orbit was formed in 1967 with the aim of providing good-quality housing for people who would otherwise not be able to afford to buy their own home.

Over 50 years later, we’re one of the leading housing providers in the UK. Our services have diversified, our housing portfolio has expanded, and our reputation as an innovator within our sector has grown. But one thing that has never changed. Our belief in people and what they can achieve.

**Your role at Orbit.**

Orbit are delighted to announce that we are looking to recruit into the brand new position of Product Owner. This role will be leading on exciting large scale projects and be responsible for the creating and maintaining the solution backlog for Dynamics365 CE products. You will lead internal and external teams to deploy new capabilities against business priority. This role is instrumental in supporting the Product Manager and business leaders to establish the solution roadmap of the products.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

- Manage and coach a small team of Product Specialists and Analysts, ensuring necessary skills are maintained
- Lead internal and external teams to deliver, enhance and maintain Dynamics CE based solutions
- Leading the change process, owning and maintaining the product backlog, developing user stories and continually prioritising product direction
- Lead Agile ceremonies and provide training
- Support Product Manager to define, maintain and communicate the roadmap to clients and stakeholders
- Undertake and oversee technical support/maintenance/routine business process activities on IT managed systems
- Proactive engagement with the business stakeholders to identify continuous improvement actions
- Day to Day management of third party contracts and suppliers
- Establish and improve service delivery levels for current and future products

**What will help you make a difference.**

To be successful in this role of Product Owner it is essential that you have proven Dynamics 365 functional and administration experience specifically within D365 CE. You will need to have experience managing a diverse team in supporting and administering IT managed systems for internal and external customers.

It is also essential that you have:

- Strong experience of working with Independent Solution Vendors and external managed service teams
- Management of the D365 Wave update process
- Management of the incidents in the production environments
- Experience working with agile or scrum teams
- Excellent communication skills with with the ability to convey complex technology concepts to the business and IT stakeholders
- Customer centricity
- Proactive engagement with stakeholders and system owners
- Demonstrable ability to take ownership and make effective decisions

**Why Orbit?**

**Rewarding your contribution.**

For those who want or need more of a work life balance** **our view is that this role is suitable for WorkSmart. This means we would consider a more flexible working arrangement, where your hours and work location are managed according to business, customer and personal needs. Agile working arrangements will be discussed during the interview process.

Some of our core benefits include:

- Group bonus potential up to 15% of salary
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays and the “Orbit day”
- Private medical insurance
- Excellent contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance
- A great pick and mix of flexible benefits including the option to buy and sell holiday and much more

**Our culture and purpose.**

We know that great people are central to achieving our ambitions and as such we want everyone to have a voice and make a positive difference. We are proud to be a Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to work for, this demonstrates we place people at the heart of everything we do. We continue to create a culture that celebrates diversity and an environment where everyone feels able to contribute towards achieving together.

We support our colleagues to be at their best through our wellbeing programme #ThisIsMe, our corporate learning programme, opportunities for professional development, our innovative approaches to making the world and our homes a greener place and our leading reward and recognition package. Because of this our people tell us Orbit is a great place to work for.

At Orbit, our people are enthusiastic and passionate about making a real difference to our customers and communities. We are one team where everyone is connected and encouraged to have the freedom to think differently.

Each year we build many new affordable homes and manage a total portfolio of around 45,000 properties. Over 100,000 people live in an Orbit home and our innovative approach empowers every one of them to grow and thrive. We are commercially driven. The more profit we make, the more we invest into the communities that we work for, improving services and playing a key role