Description
- Product Owner
- Remote Work however will be expected to be in Edinburgh 203 days per week once lockdown is lifted.
- 3 month initial contract with view to extend
- £620.00 per day
- Inside of Scope
My client is looking for a Product Owner to join their team on a 3 month initial basis, this will be joining a major project that will design a brand-new service for a significant NEW client in the Pensions Market. The Product Owner role will lead on the design and delivery of a major element of the business proposition supporting the Joint Solution Team (JST) and global software engineering capability. In the JST you will work in close collaboration with a cross-functional team including CX designers, Insight Analysts, Communications Specialists, Business Analysts and Technical Experts to define the service. You will then manage the product roadmap, vision and backlog throughout development to ensure we achieve our aspirations of delivering a compelling customer experience.
Your day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Work with internal and external customers to analyse the needs and align product vision, roadmap and backlog to strategic goals.
- Own the product roadmap, develop scope and define backlog items across thousands of user stories that guide the Agile software development team.
- Solve product related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards the best business outcomes.
- Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply to make business decisions.
- Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.
- Assess value, develop cases, and work with Customer representatives to prioritise activities to ensure we deliver maximum value aligned with product strategy.
Skills we can't do without:
- Product Management experience in the public/financial sector.
- Management of senior stakeholders and their expectations.
- Deep understanding, experience and passion with Agile methods and mindset.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence decision makers and teams
- Working knowledge of Agile tools including, but not limited to, Jira, Confluence.
- Product Owner Certification.
Skills we'd like:
- Specific Experience working within Pensions Administration, ideally with experience of Master Trust pension schemes
- Specific Experience of one or more of the following Financial Services Operational areas:
- Customer registration and on boarding
- Customer Servicing
- "Money In" processing
- "Money Out (Claims)" processing
- Finance and Tax
If you are available and interested please apply today!
Lorien Plc is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.