Product Owner

Avance Consulting; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Avance Consulting is seeking a Product Owner to drive the evolution of our digital landscape and deliver exceptional customer experiences. You will engage with stakeholders, lead sprint work, and articulate the product's value to senior leadership to secure funding and alignment.

The role involves shaping the product roadmap, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and refining stories for the tech team while maintaining governance and risk controls across initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience engaging with product owners and business stakeholders to discuss dependencies.
• Act as face of product to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Explain value of changes to the business and users.
• Support story elaboration for the technology team.
• Review and accept work completed in Sprint and participate in refinements.

Responsibilities

• Define strategic direction for product management and governance.
• Oversee product management initiatives and inter-team collaboration.
• Develop policies for product management and risk controls.
• Lead/guide teams to deliver features and satisfy core requirements.
• Engage with users to understand patterns, pain points and opportunities.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Agile methods

Product strategy

Risk management

Job description

Join us as a "Product Owner" where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

To be successful as a "Product Owner", you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

Engage with other Product Owner’sand Business stakeholders to discuss and negotiate dependencies.

Act as face of product to Stakeholdersespecially senior leadership.

Act as customer representative to team and explains the value of the change to the business.

Help elaborate Stories to Tech team where detail needed.

Review and accept of all work completed in Sprint.

Participate in Story Refinement sessions.

Participate in Sprint Planning to help team understand the change and ensure priority of work is correct.

Self-initiate new Ideas/ Product features / enhance existing features.

Seek funding opportunities from Stakeholders/Business Areas for new initiatives.

Experience of creating Business Case and presenting it to Senior stakeholders

Work with Projects to exploit their funding to become the vehicle to deliver new features/improve existing as well as their core requirements.

Engage with users to understand user patterns / behaviours / potential improvements / pain points.

Analysis prioritisation in collaboration withotherleads; Prioritise live issue fixes.

Explore metrics across the product, collaborate with Tech and Domain Lead to drive improvement.

Create Domain Roadmaps to detail feature delivery and timelines.

The need to drive metrics to bring to life the delivery of features and associated issues.0

Desirable skill sets/ good to have:

Knowledge of Application Programming Interface (API) will be desirable

Foundational knowledge of product management and Agile methodologies.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with Customer Experience Empathy Maps, Journey Mapping, Story Mapping, Story Boarding, Market Research, Product Management o r Business Analysis etc., as well as job-specific skillsets.

Purpose of the role

To manage product management initiatives and set the strategic direction. Provide support to the bank's senior management team, and to manage product development risk across the organization.

Accountabilities

Development of strategic direction for product management, including the implementation of up to date methodologies and processes.

Management of product management initiatives, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness. .

Relationship management of product management stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third party services.

Development and implementation of policies and procedures for product management.

Management of product management risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank’s product management and compliance functions. .

Monitoring the financial performance of the product management department, including revenue, profitability, and cost control.

Conducting thorough market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.

To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.

Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes

If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.

Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.

Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.

Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.

Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.

Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.

Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.