Product Owner

Wales & West Utilities Limited; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working opportunities

13 paid holidays

Pension scheme

Life Insurance

Job summary

Wales & West Utilities Limited in Newport is seeking a Product Owner to manage the full data product lifecycle, define the vision, prioritise backlog, and drive delivery and continuous improvement. You will ensure business, user and organisational needs are met through effective change delivery.

You’ll work closely with stakeholders to maximise value of data products, translate requirements into features, measure outcomes, and support strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Advanced Certified Product Owner or willingness to achieve within 6 months.
• Experience of motivating others to deliver business change
• Delivered programme-level change initiatives
• Developed strategic initiatives into Agile change programmes
• Experience of delivering business cases and tracking benefits
• Experience of engaging key stakeholders to determine current and future value
• Experience of measuring product performance and demonstrating return on investment and business outcomes

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate product vision and roadmap ensuring alignment with business priorities and organisational objectives
• Collaborate with users and stakeholders to understand challenges, identify opportunities, and shape products that address business needs.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and leverage data and analytics capabilities to improve business processes, performance, and customer outcomes.
• Prioritise backlog items based on business value, user needs and strategic objectives

Skills

Product ownership

Stakeholder leadership

Agile delivery

Data-driven decision making

ROI tracking

Education

Advanced Certified Product Owner

Willingness to achieve within 6 months

Job description

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Who are we?

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.

What we’re looking for:

The Product Owner will beresponsible for managing the full data product lifecycle, from defining product vision and prioritising backlog items through to delivery and continuous improvement.

The role ensures business, user, and organisational needs are met through effective change delivery, working closely with stakeholders to maximise the value of data products and services.

The role requires strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to translate business requirements into actionable product features and data-driven solutions that support strategic objectives, enhance decision-making, and deliver measurable business value

You’ll be relied on to:

• Define and communicate product vision and roadmap ensuring alignment with business priorities and organisational objectives

Collaborate with users and stakeholders to understand challenges, identify opportunities, and shape products that address business needs.

Identify opportunities for innovation and leverage data and analytics capabilities to improve business processes, performance, and customer outcomes.

• Prioritise backlog items based on business value, user needs and strategic objectives

You can read a full job description here .

You’ll need to have:

• Advanced Certified Product Owner or willingness to achieve within 6 months (Essential)
• Experience of motivating others to deliver business change
• Delivered programme-level change initiatives
• Developed strategic initiatives into Agile change programmes
• Experience of delivering business cases and tracking benefits
• Experience of engaging key stakeholders to determine current and future value
• Experience of measuring product performance and demonstrating return on investment and business outcomes

What you’ll get in return:

• A competitive salary starting at £53,983 rising to £61,703
• Flexible working opportunities
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays which can be tailored to celebrations that reflect your beliefs
• Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
• 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
• “Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
• Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
• Enhanced pay for parental leave
• Retail discounts and cashback scheme
• Friends & Family Discount for Three Mobile and Broadband
• Colleague recognition including Annual Celebrating Excellence Awards
• Living Wage Accredited Employer
• Award winning employer for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Workplace Health and Wellbeing’ and leading the industry in championing equality, diversity and inclusion
• Annual salary review
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Company Sick Pay
• In-house Occupational Health Team
• Employee Assistance Programme

The way we do things

Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business – from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues. Our values underpin everything we do and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.

We are focused on creating a culture where it doesn’t matter about gender, race, sexuality or disability; it’s about our colleagues’ skills, the way we do things and how we live our values.

Interested?

If you think you’d make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you!

You can also ask us about flexible working practices that may be available or tell us if you have any special requirements during the application process.