Product Owner

Candour Solutions; London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Candour Solutions is seeking a Product Owner in Underwriting to oversee business applications and drive transformation in a hybrid working environment. The role requires strategic thinking, effective leadership, and the ability to manage teams and technology solutions aligned with business goals.

Qualifications

• Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills are essential.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities and effective communication skills are crucial.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Claims applications meet quality, resilience, and usability standards.
• Collaborate with Claims leadership.
• Manage and develop the team, ensuring capabilities and training.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Leadership

Communication

Programme management

Technical Capabilities

Job description

Job Description – Product Owner - Underwriting

About Hiscox:

At Hiscox, we care about our people. We hire the best people for the work and are committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We embrace hybrid-working practices, balancing remote work with in-office collaboration, supported by virtual tools and team charters. Our modern working approach has contributed to high employee engagement and enables us to deliver better solutions for our colleagues.

As an international specialist insurer, we focus on key areas of expertise, challenging conventions and seeking better ways of doing things. We insure the unique and interesting, and value talented individuals who think creatively, challenge the status quo, and seek solutions. Founded in 1901, we are ambitious, evolving, and passionate about doing things differently.

Product Owner – Underwriting – London (Hybrid)
Reporting to: Head of Core Value Streams

The Role

This role spans the Underwriting Function Value Streams and reports directly to the Head of Core Value Streams within the Group Enterprise Systems (GES) team. It includes overseeing all business applications within the Underwriting Function, such as the core PAS platform and internal analytics platform. Building on recent technology investments, the GES team aims to develop technology roadmaps, deliver solutions, and maintain critical systems, including a transformation programme to centralise services into one platform.

Key Responsibilities

1. Resilience: Ensure Claims applications meet quality, resilience, and usability standards.
2. Customer Liaison: Collaborate with Claims leadership to align applications with Group Technology goals to Simplify, Protect, and Enable the business.
3. Technical Consultant: Propose solutions, determine roadmaps, and liaise with support teams.
4. Ensure applications are robust, secure, scalable, and compliant with regulations.
5. Manage and develop the team, ensuring they have necessary capabilities and training.
6. Promote a commercially oriented support culture aligned with Hiscox’s goals.
7. Provide strategic management information to stakeholders.
8. Adopt a value-focused approach to technology leadership, managing budgets effectively.

Candidate Profile

While technical expertise is valuable, key capabilities include:

• Strategic thinking and analytical skills to support transformation programs.
• Leadership: Ability to communicate vision and deliver change.
• Communication & stakeholder management: Effectively influence at all levels.
• Programme management: Lead vendors and internal teams using agile and traditional methodologies.
• Technical Capabilities: Understanding of digital platforms, Agile principles, and value streams.