Product Owner

JR United Kingdom; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity is seeking a Product Owner (Finance, Procurement and HR) to drive the vision and roadmap for HCM/ERP systems, primarily focusing on Workday. In this role, you will lead a squad to deliver value through stakeholder engagement, product development metrics, and by fostering a collaborative environment. Experience in healthcare and an established track record in product ownership is highly desirable.

Qualifications

• Experience in HCM/ERP/Finance technologies, specifically Workday is crucial.
• Established as a credible Product Owner.
• Experience in the Healthcare sector is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Establish a vision and collaboratively develop a roadmap for HCM/ERP products.
• Build relationships with Finance and HR stakeholders to create a shared roadmap.
• Review roadmap and product backlog with the squad to ensure readiness for delivery.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Product ownership

Technical understanding of Workday

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Competitive salary dependent on experience

37.5 x hours a week

Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes – we’ll do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.

As a Product Owner (Finance, Procurement and HR), you’ll bring demonstrable knowledge, skills and experience in the field of product ownership, Technical understanding of Workday (Finance and HCM), well-developed stakeholder management skills and first-class communication. You will be commercially savvy with the ability to plan, design and build a product roadmap that delivers significant value and return on investment.

You will lead our Finance, Procurement and HR squad – driving the squad to deliver the product vision and demonstrable value to the charity. You’ll bring your previous experience of HCM/ERP/Finance technologies (specifically Workday) as you will prioritise the squad’s initiatives into a product roadmap, built through engagement with your squad, your stakeholders and your peers across the charity.

As our Product Owner, you will:

• Establish a vision for your products (HCM/ERP) and collaboratively develop a roadmap and backlog for them, with benefits in terms of customer and business value. Track this value through the development of product related metrics, driving decisions using data.
• Establish strong relationships with your business stakeholders (Finance and HR Leaders and team), engaging them to create a shared roadmap of priorities driven by the value initiatives will deliver to the charity.
• Complete regular review sessions with your squad (that includes architecture, delivery, analysis, engineering and service expertise) to review the roadmap and prioritise the product backlog, maintaining at least three sprints worth of work that is always “ready for delivery” at the top of the backlog.
• Measure and regularly review the value provided by the squad, including return on investment for product developments and reviewing the value of suppliers are providing to the squad.
• Explain the strategic importance and specific business/customer objectives of each item on the backlog to the squad, connecting the whole squad to their purpose.
• Encourage and collaborate with the team to ensure they are self-generating ideas that deliver value for the backlog.
• Maintain strong market knowledge in Finance, Procurement and HR Technologies and Processes to influence and drive success and value from your products. This includes knowledge of Workday.

To be successful in this role, you will have established yourself as a credible Product Owner. It will be a strong advantage if you have experience of HR, Finance and Procurement Technologies – HCM/ERP – specifically Workday. Experience in the Healthcare sector would also be an advantage, but not essential.