Scrum Product Owner

NFU Mutual; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 17.5% of salary

Contributory pension up to 20%

25 days annual leave + bank holidays +

Family Friendly policy

Health and wellbeing plan

Life Assurance 4x salary

Employee discounts on NFU Mutual pol.

Job summary

NFU Mutual is seeking a Scrum Product Owner to own a backlog within a major insurance transformation programme. You’ll drive backlog prioritisation across pricing, technology and delivery, turning complex requirements into clear user stories and ensuring business value justifies changes.

The role is based at Tiddington Head Office near Stratford-upon-Avon with hybrid working (up to 80% from home). Full-time and part-time hours will be considered.

Qualifications

• Product ownership experience in a scrum or agile delivery environment.
• CSPO qualification — highly desirable.
• Knowledge of transformation and adoption activity, or experience delivering non-technical backlogs.
• Proven requirements analysis skills, translating complex change into clear user stories.
• Experience managing senior stakeholders and coordinating delivery across teams.
• Insurance pricing experience, knowledge of the end to end pricing process, or broader insurance experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the scrum team's backlog and prioritise effectively.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and other squads to understand dependencies and timelines.
• Provide clear backlog health updates and escalate when needed.
• Identify continuous improvements to strengthen change quality and efficiency.

Skills

Product ownership

Scrum/Agile experience

Stakeholder management

Requirements analysis

Insurance pricing familiarity

Transformation knowledge

Education

CSPO certification

Job description

Scrum Product Owner Own a scrum backlog within a significant insurance transformation programme Build product ownership experience across pricing, technology and delivery Hybrid 80% homeworking and 20% from Stratford-upon-Avon

About the role

At NFU Mutual, you’ll join the pricing workstream within our major transformation programme, helping to bring an important Scrum Product Owner capability into the business. Working across pricing, technology and delivery, you’ll take genuine ownership of your scrum team’s backlog and help ensure our pricing capability continues to work effectively as insurance products move to a new policy administration environment. You’ll shape, define and prioritise the backlog on behalf of the business, turning complex requirements into clear user stories and making sure planned changes have a strong business justification. By assessing the value and impact of features, you’ll help the team focus on the work that delivers the greatest benefit and supports effective price development and integration. Collaboration will be central to the role. You’ll work with stakeholders and other squads to understand dependencies, communicate priorities and timescales, and keep delivery moving. You’ll provide clear updates on backlog health, progress and team measures, and act as the first point of escalation when issues need to be resolved or unblocked. You’ll also identify and coordinate continuous improvements that strengthen the quality, efficiency and control of change. Where system issues arise, you’ll support their resolution and help communicate the business impact clearly and promptly. This is a permanent opportunity for an experienced or developing Product Owner to make a visible contribution within a significant transformation programme, while building broader experience across insurance pricing and technology delivery. This role is based in our Tiddington Head Office, just outside Stratford-upon-Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work up to 80% of your hours from home. Full-time and part-time hours will be considered.

About you

• Product ownership experience in a scrum or agile delivery environment (essential)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) qualification — highly desirable
• Knowledge of transformation and adoption activity, or experience delivering non-technical backlogs
• Proven requirements analysis skills, including translating complex change into clear user stories
• Experience managing senior stakeholders and coordinating delivery across teams
• Insurance pricing experience, knowledge of the end to end pricing process, or broader insurance experience combined with strong product ownership capability – highly desirable

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees. We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

• Salary £50,000 - £55,000
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan- cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering - volunteerin the community for one day each year
• Mentoring opportunities to help you grow your career
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance coverof 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at NFU MutualWe’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”. Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform. Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.