Description
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow/Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit 2 x Product Owners for initial 6 month contracts with the potential to extend on a rate of £500-£555/day (inside of IR35). Due to the current circumstances these roles will be remote based for the foreseeable future.Responsibilities:
- Lead a multi-disciplinary team to design, develop and deliver a specific product from initial inception through to integration of the new service within the existing programme infrastructure.
- Write options appraisals, business cases and provide information that enable the programme to choose appropriate delivery options and/or procure technology and services.
- Interpret user research in order to make the correct product decisions ensuring they reflect user needs Understand the relationship between your specific products and the overall delivery of the programme, and its wider systems and processes, reflecting this within your area.
- Manage the operational process of designing and running a product/service through its entire life cycle and knows how to plan and operationalise the stage of new product/service development and works closely with operational teams.
- Use a range of product management principles and approaches and is able to coach others, understand what is most important and applicable and is able to work with a wide range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams.
- Communicate credibly with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders.
- Define and obtain stakeholder buy-in for your product and the approach to delivery, including external stakeholder groups and operational staff within the organisation.
- Create effective, prioritised product descriptions and delivery plans to meet user needs in a cost effective way
- Represent the needs of the organisation while working in conjunction with internal suppliers and other departments within Scotland and the rest of the UK.
Essential Skills:
- Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders and teams, IT providers and partner organisations, other departments and IT providers to deliver services and systems, with the aim of providing better results for end users.
- Ability to bring together views and perspectives of a broad range of internal and external stakeholders including commercial and procurement specialists to provide a strong evidence base and documentation for decisions.
- Ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team and set priorities for yourself and others in a project and/or programme, using established, recognised best practice project methodologies and using agile development methods.
- Ability to enable decision-making at the right level within your teams, removing unnecessary bureaucracy and facilitating delivery.
If you would like to hear more about these opportunities please get in touch.