Product Owner
Found in: Talent UK C2 - 3 weeks ago
Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: 6 - 12 month contract
Location: Gloucester
Benefact Group, are seeking a highly experienced Product Owner to join us as we embark on a critical technology programme to replace the existing platform for our General Insurance business. The new ecosystem consists of multiple platforms with each platform aligned to its own dedicated delivery team.
Fully empowered, the Product Owner in partnership with dedicated Business Analysts, supported by Subject Matter Experts on the ‘Client Side’ and with Scrum Master support to lean on will take responsibility for the delivery of the Digital Front End platform.
Working with a newly formed and enthusiastic team currently in the process of transitioning from Kanban to Scrum; the new Product Owner joins us at an exciting time. With a passion for Agility, courage to challenge the status quo, humility and a love of teamwork and empowerment… the Product Owner will be instrumental in helping to create a strong and high performing product delivery Scrum Team.
- Delivery of the Programme Vision and Objectives leveraging the Scrum Framework (plus supporting best practice) through a sustainable, predictable, and high-quality delivery engine.
- Creation, prioritisation, and maintenance of a healthy Product Backlog
- Strong partnership, involvement and immersion with the Scrum Team culminating in the production and accountability for well defined, well understood, high quality, unambiguous and consistent User Stories as the transactional basis for delivery of output value from the Team
- Awareness and demonstrable ability to use best practice / effective techniques and processes from both inside and outside of the Scrum Framework to maximise performance, sustainability, forecast predictability and enjoyment (Burnout Prevention)
- Represent and balance the needs of the customer and key stakeholders - collaborating, facilitating and driving decisions and agreement to support the product roadmap, vision, and product backlog
- Promote, advertise, communicate, engage with Business Stakeholders and Customers the value delivered by the Team: - helping to improve and maintain the profile of the delivery team/s, effectiveness of the Agile Framework and stakeholder Buy-In and Confidence across the Group
- Work with the Scrum Team to agree what and when to release features, as well as utilise feedback to enable the right final decision to be reached on the release plan.
- Serve as product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions
- Through effective collaboration, help to define and deliver improvements in delivery of product to maximise the value from the teams and the product
- Coach / mentor existing Agile Business Analysts in the Delivery Team on Product Ownership
Knowledge, skills and experience
- Proven experience as a Product Owner including digital front-end platforms
- Insurance Industry knowledge (can be via a different role)
- Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to effectively manage conflicting needs of stakeholders
Preferential
- Certified Product Owner
- ‘Supplier side’ product ownership
- Proficiency with the Atlassian Suite of products, Jira, Confluence
- Coaching experience
Benefact Group is a unique international financial services group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and currently the 3rd largest corporate donor in the country, having given away £200 million since 2016. We have an ambitious plan to become the number one corporate donor with strategic objectives in place to double the groups size over the next five years.
We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people offer career opportunities and personal development through a fantastic learning and career framework. Luckily for us, the nature of who we are – our giving ethos, our 135 year history and the diversity of what we do – has built a culture of kindness, of great ambition, of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
At Benefact Group, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences. We understand that the perfect candidate for this role may not necessarily meet every requirement listed in this advert, and we encourage you to apply even if you feel that you don't fulfil every single qualification. Your unique perspective and potential are valuable to us, and we invite you to submit an application if this opportunity resonates with you.
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