Product Owner- Core Branch Technology

Morson Group; Greater London, Chesterfield; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Morson Group is seeking a Product Owner to drive the Core Branch Platform strategy and roadmap within a multi‑supplier, SAP‑centric enterprise transformation. You will own lifecycle governance and ensure value delivery across reconciliation, accounting and integration capabilities.

The role requires strong product ownership skills, experience with complex systems integration, and the ability to align business, architecture and operations across several workstreams.

Qualifications

• Significant experience owning a core enterprise platform or business-critical application.
• Strong capability in defining product strategy, roadmaps, prioritisation and value delivery.
• Experience with complex systems integration across multiple products and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate the product strategy, roadmap and lifecycle for the Core Branch platform.
• Shape the evolution of the platform as part of the replacement programme.
• Oversee capabilities for reconciliation, accounting, transaction processing, integration and orchestration.
• Ensure effective integration across SAP, supplier products, APIs and other replacement systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define outcomes, prioritise work and articulate value.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmap development

Stakeholder management

APIs integration

SAP knowledge

Transformation programmes

Tools

SAP

Job description

Product Owner- Core Branch Platform

• Contract duration: 3 months
• Location: 2 days per week in Central London or Chesterfield
• Start date: ASAP
• Pay range: £600.00- £650.00 per day/ Inside IR35

We are looking for an experienced Product Owner to join our client and own the strategy, roadmap and evolution of the core enterprise platform supporting a replacement programme. This role will help move the organisation from legacy branch systems to an SAP-centred platform and architecture, bringing together reconciliation, accounting, integration and orchestration capabilities across a complex landscape.

This is not a traditional digital Product Owner role focused on agile ceremonies or day-to-day squad management. The successful candidate will take an outcome-led approach to platform ownership, ensuring the right capabilities and integrations are in place so that the organisation, suppliers and branches are paid correctly.

Key responsibilities:

• Own and communicate the product strategy, roadmap and lifecycle for the Core Branch platform.
• Shape the evolution of the platform as part of the wider replacement programme.
• Oversee capabilities for reconciliation, accounting, transaction processing, integration and orchestration.
• Ensure effective integration across SAP, supplier products, APIs and other replacement systems.
• Work with business and technology stakeholders to define the right outcomes, prioritise work and articulate the value of proposed investment.
• Help establish the right delivery approach across multiple workstreams, suppliers and technical dependencies.
• Support solution discovery and design, ensuring the target architecture enables successful replacement of legacy branch systems.
• Drive value realisation and lifecycle management for a strategically important enterprise platform.
• Challenge suppliers and internal teams constructively where proposed solutions do not deliver the required outcome.
• Build strong working relationships with finance directors, architects, retail operations teams, business teams and delivery partners.

Essential experience and knowledge:

• Significant experience owning a core enterprise platform, processing platform or business-critical enterprise application.
• Strong Product Owner capability, including product strategy, roadmap development, prioritisation, value definition and outcome ownership.
• Experience of complex systems integration across multiple products, platforms and third-party suppliers.
• Knowledge of financial transaction processing, such as payment flows, settlement, reconciliation, card payments, cash management or settlement engines.
• Experience working on a large transformation programme or legacy-system replacement.
• Ability to operate across business, architecture, operations and supplier teams in a complex delivery environment.
• Experience using APIs and integration services to support third-party products and end-to-end customer and payment journeys.
• Strong stakeholder management and the confidence to question assumptions, challenge decisions and influence senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on, proactive and willing to get into the detail.
• Curious and unafraid to ask questions or challenge established thinking.
• Outcome-led, with a clear focus on business value rather than outputs alone.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and coordinating across multiple workstreams and moving parts.
• A credible communicator who can connect technical, operational and commercial perspectives.
• Able to hit the ground running and establish direction quickly in a fast-moving transformation environment.

Desirable experience

• Experience of SAP within an enterprise platform or integration environment.
• Knowledge of SAP Business Technology Platform and its integration capabilities.
• SAP S/4HANA knowledge or experience, particularly in an organisation moving from ECC to S/4HANA.
• Experience in retail or another environment involving complex supplier products and transaction flows.
• Familiarity with SAP-centred architecture and platform modernisation.