Associate Product Owner

Rsgroup; Corby; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension/retirement

Life assurance

Healthcare plans

Holiday/paid time off

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work

Gym/healthclub discounts

Job summary

RS Group invites applications for an Associate Product Owner in Corby, a hybrid role blending remote work with office collaboration. You will support the Payments Product Owner and help drive backlog, user stories, and delivery of the Sales & Payments capabilities.

You’ll work in an Agile team, manage API standards, and coordinate with Buy, CX, SAP & Finance. Strong communication and Agile delivery experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in product management, delivery, or business analysis.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and delivery processes.
• Ability to use structured approaches to solve routine problems.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• IT literacy and business acumen.

Responsibilities

• Support backlog management, prioritisation and Agile delivery activities.
• Write clear user stories with acceptance criteria and review delivered software against business requirements.
• Act as first point of contact for routine payment-related queries and resolve routine delivery issues.
• Apply knowledge of card payment processes to support new and existing services.
• Ensure APIs follow defined standards, documentation and versioning approaches.
• Coordinate between Buy, CX, SAP & Finance teams to support the payments roadmap.
• Communicate progress and updates clearly to the wider team.
• Support monitoring of API performance and payment success rates.
• Collaborate with internal and external colleagues for incident management and operational standards.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile delivery

Communication skills

Cross-functional teamwork

Business analysis

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

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Associate Product Owner

Location: Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 5JF

Brand: RS Group

Function: Digital & Technology

Work Location: Hybrid

Location: This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our offices.

Contract Type: Permanent

The Opportunity

Reporting into the Payments Product Owner, you will support the delivery and continuous improvement of the Sales and Payments capabilities by working closely with other Product Owners, Engineering Teams, and Stakeholders to ensure well-defined, prioritised, and high-quality delivery of our services. You will work alongside the existing Digital Product Owner for Payments (part-time) sharing tasks and workload to drive through the digital change agenda. The Sales & Payments team uses the Scrum methodology to deliver software in an Agile way. Alongside the current Product Owner, you will help manage the backlog using business led prioritisation and contribute to the overall payment’s roadmap.

This new role is a rare opportunity to develop your Product Ownership skills safely within an established Agile team, working alongside experienced Product Owners.

What You Will Be Doing

• Support backlog management, prioritisation and Agile delivery activities
• Write clear user stories with acceptance criteria and review delivered software against business requirements
• Act as first point of contact for routine payment-related queries and resolve routine delivery issues
• Apply knowledge of card payment processes (authorisation, settlement/capture, refunds) to support new and existing services
• Ensure APIs follow defined standards, documentation and versioning approaches
• Work with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, support delivery of the payment’s roadmap and coordinate between Buy, CX, SAP & Finance teams
• Communicate progress and updates clearly and share knowledge with wider team members
• Support monitoring of API performance and payment success rates, identify issues and contribute to continuous improvement
• Collaborate with internal and external colleagues for incident management, issue resolution and maintaining operational standards

What You’ll Bring

• Some experience in a product management, delivery, or business analysis role
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and delivery processes
• Ability to use structured approaches to solve routine problems
• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Generally IT literate
• Good sense of business acumen
• Exposure to APIs or microservices
• Basic knowledge of payments or e-commerce
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence or similar tools
• Experience working with global, cross-regional IT teams.
• Experience working with Payment Service Providers, acquirers, or using payments tools (e.g. Cybersource, Worldpay, SAP).
• Experience working with Adobe Commerce

We Are RS

At RS, wearemaking amazing happen for a better world.

As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customersoperatemore efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five millionadditionalproducts, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.

What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technicalexpertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – we are one team,wedeliver brilliantly,wedo the right thing, and we make every day better,we'recreating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact.

Rewards

Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provideall ofour people the opportunity toparticipatein a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offeringprovide the opportunity for usto recognise,rewardand enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial -pension/retirement;lifeassurance;salaryfinance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing -medical plans;healthscreening;criticalillness;disability insurance;holiday/paidtimeoff;employeeassistanceprogramme; discountedgym/healthclub membership
• Lifestyle -transportationassistanceschemes (e.g.,cycle towork, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values