Product Owner

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy; Belfast; On-site; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee share scheme

38 days' leave including bank/public holidays

16% company contribution pension

Job summary

A leading insurance company in Belfast seeks a Senior Product Owner to drive internal product excellence. This role involves shaping product vision, managing backlogs, and working with engineering teams. Candidates should have experience in Agile environments, strong facilitation skills, and the ability to engage senior stakeholders. The position offers a competitive salary of up to £90,000, including an extensive benefits package. Join this dynamic team and contribute to meaningful organizational growth.

Qualifications

• Experience owning an application or product end-to-end.
• Proven ability to work directly with senior stakeholders, including C-suite.
• Confident in challenging and reshaping requirements.

Responsibilities

• Owning and shaping product vision and strategic roadmaps.
• Managing and prioritising multiple product backlogs.
• Leading workshops and discovery sessions to uncover true business needs.

Skills

Solid commercial experience as a Product Owner in an Agile environment

Experience managing multiple backlogs concurrently

Strong workshop facilitation skills

Basic SQL skills

Solid technical understanding

Education

Product Owner certification or similar

Job description

MCS Group are working exclusively with a leading insurance company in Belfast as they embark on an exciting period of growth. We're looking to connect with Senior Product Owners for an exciting, high-profile opportunity within their Belfast office - but with a global reach.

Looking for a Product Owner role where you're not just managing a backlog, but genuinely shaping how technology solves real business problems?

This is a brand-new position within a well-established organisation, created to strengthen the partnership between Technology and the wider business. You'll sit at the centre of that relationship, translating complex business challenges into clear, actionable product outcomes.

The Opportunity

The Senior Product Owner will report to the Director of Software Development and take ownership of one or more internal products across multiple workstreams.

This isn't a client-facing B2B product environment. It's about driving internal product excellence, working closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation to uncover real business problems, challenge assumptions, and shape the right solutions with the tech teams.

You won't "own" the business domain or the technical domain but you'll be the catalyst that brings both together.

What You'll Be Doing

• Owning and shaping product vision and strategic roadmaps
• Managing and prioritising multiple product backlogs
• Writing clear, high-quality user stories and epics
• Leading workshops and discovery sessions to uncover true business needs
• Challenging and reshaping requests to ensure the right problem is being solved
• Partnering closely with engineering teams within a pure Agile / SCRUM environment
• Managing cross-team dependencies and driving quarterly planning
• Presenting sprint demos and maintaining clear stakeholder visibility
• Using AI tools where appropriate to accelerate design and delivery
• Understanding cost, benefit and value and articulating that clearly to the business

This is a highly visible, business-facing role with genuine progression potential for someone who establishes themselves well.

What We're Looking For

• Solid commercial experience of operating as a Product Owner in a pure Agile environment.
• Experience owning an application or product end-to-end.
• Proven ability to work directly with senior stakeholders, including C-suite.
• Strong workshop facilitation and discovery skills.
• Confident in challenging, probing and reshaping requirements
• Solid technical understanding, you're not a developer, but you know what's possible (and what's not)
• Experience managing multiple backlogs concurrently
• Product Owner certification (or similar)
• Basic SQL skills
• Comfortable discussing architecture and technical dependencies

Up to £90,000 with a leading benefits package including, Employee share scheme, 38 days' leave (including bank/public holidays) and 16% company contribution pension

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity, please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Chris Busby, Associate Director - IT Recruitment, at MCS Group

Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit MCS Group to view a wide selection of our current and exclusive roles www.mcsgroup.jobs

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