Product Owner

Spirax Group; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Discretionary bonus

Flexible working

27 days holiday

Volunteer leave

Private healthcare

Enhanced pension

Life assurance

Share scheme

Onsite parking

Flexible benefits

Discount portal

Inclusion Plan

Job summary

Spirax Group is seeking a Product Owner to join our Digital Platforms team in Cheltenham. You will translate strategy and BU needs into a delivery-ready backlog, balancing customer value with quality, security and governance.

You’ll work with customers, stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams to deliver increments that drive adoption and business value. You will shape outcomes, Epics, Features and Stories, prioritise backlog, and ensure items are clear ahead of planning.

Qualifications

• Experience in product ownership or management in agile software teams.
• Ability to define user stories, acceptance criteria and success measures.
• Proven backlog prioritisation using evidence and business needs.
• Experience working with stakeholders across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategy into a clear, prioritised backlog aligned to business value.
• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders and delivery teams daily.
• Refine backlog items with acceptance criteria and DoD.
• Coordinate user research, UAT and feedback across business units.
• Maintain roadmap, decisions and risks with traceability.
• Support release readiness, adoption and go-to-market activities.
• Promote consistent ways of working and continuous improvement.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile

Backlog prioritisation

User stories

Cross-functional collaboration

Jira

Confluence

Product analytics

Certification (Desirable)

Degree-level qualification

Education

Degree-level qualification

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Product analytics

Job description

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (hybrid)

The role

We are looking for a Product Owner to join our Digital Platforms team. in this role you will be accountable for translating Digital Platform strategy and Business Unit needs into a clear, prioritised and delivery-ready backlog. Working at the interface between customers, business stakeholders and multidisciplinary delivery teams, the role ensures that each increment delivers measurable user and business value while meeting agreed quality, security and governance expectations. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of digital platforms used across global business units, driving customer value, adoption and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a deep understanding of users, customers, operational processes and commercial priorities.
• Shape and maintain outcomes, Epics, Features, Stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements.
• Prioritise the backlog using value, evidence, risk, dependencies, capacity and strategic alignment.
• Ensure backlog items are sufficiently clear and ready ahead of quarterly and sprint planning.
• Work daily with engineering, UX, data, QA, architecture, cybersecurity and delivery colleagues to clarify needs and unblock decisions.
• Participate in planning, refinement and review; accept or reject completed work against agreed criteria and Definition of Done.
• Coordinate stakeholder input, user research, UAT ownership and feedback loops across Business Units.
• Keep roadmap, backlog, decisions, dependencies, risks and supporting documentation current and traceable.
• Manage dependencies and shared-platform impacts across product areas, integrations and downstream consumers.
• Support release readiness, adoption, communications, training and go-to-market activity with relevant teams; participate in post-incident reviews and ensure lessons shape the backlog and ways of working.
• Promote consistent Digital Factory ways of working and continuous improvement across product activity.
• Make appropriate use of modern productivity, analysis and collaboration tooling to accelerate discovery, refinement and documentation, while remaining accountable for the accuracy and quality of all backlog content.

Your Skills

• Proven experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, commercial operations or a comparable role.
• Experience working in agile, multidisciplinary software teams and contributing across discovery, delivery and release.
• Demonstrable experience managing and prioritising a product backlog using customer, business and technical evidence.
• Experience defining user stories, acceptance criteria, success measures and UAT approaches.
• Track record of working across business, engineering, UX, data, architecture, security, QA and operational stakeholders.
• Experience with platform products, connected devices, IoT/telemetry or data services is strongly advantageous; industrial B2B experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence and product analytics or equivalent tools.
• Product Owner, Scrum or product management certification is desirable, but equivalent practical experience is equally valued.
• Degree-level qualification or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

• competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus)
• flexible working
• 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays)
• 3 days’ paid volunteering leave
• comprehensive private healthcare
• enhanced pension plan
• life assurance
• optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan
• free onsite parking
• flexible benefits
• access to a personal discounts’ portal
• range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments .

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.