Senior Product Owner

British Heart Foundation; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading organization in the healthcare sector as a Senior Product Owner. You will spearhead the development of a transformative data platform aimed at improving healthcare outcomes. Your role will encompass managing agile teams, driving decisions with data, and ensuring effective product delivery in collaboration with diverse stakeholders. This position supports a blend of remote and office work and is a fixed-term contract for one year.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product management, especially in digital/data-driven environments.
• Proven ability to manage product backlogs and align delivery with strategic goals.
• Excellent planning and organizing skills to prioritize and track work.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of the Azure Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
• Shape product vision and roadmap aligning with strategic goals.
• Enhance collaboration across teams fostering a culture of transparency.

Skills

Product Management

Agile Leadership

Communication

Data-Informed Mindset

Strategic Thinking

Job description

As our Senior Product Owner, supporting work in our Medical team, you ll lead the development and management of our cutting-edge new Azure Databricks Data Intelligence Platform in partnership with the Health Insights team.

This platform will play a crucial role in advancing our analytics capabilities, helping measure, evaluate and share the impact of the research we fund and the health and care projects we deliver, as well as ultimately improving patient outcomes through data-driven insights.

What you ll be doing:
• Shape the product vision and roadmap for the Data Intelligence Platform, aligning with strategic goals of the Medical Directorate and wider British Heart Foundation (BHF).
• Lead agile delivery across a cross-functional team, evolving agile practices to suit varying levels of experience and maturity.
• Bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders, tailoring your communication to ensure clarity, alignment, and shared understanding.
• Foster collaboration across teams, encouraging a culture of transparency, continuous improvement, and shared ownership.
• Use data to drive decisions, leveraging key metrics to prioritise features, track progress, and measure impact.
• Contribute to the Product Chapter, helping shape product standards and best practices across the organisation.

About you

You ll be an experienced product leader who thrives in complex environments and knows how to bring people together to deliver impactful digital products. You ll bring:
• Extensive experience in product management, particularly in digital and data-driven environments.
• Significant experience of leading and line managing a team.
• A strong track record of agile leadership, including introducing or evolving agile practices in teams with mixed levels of experience.
• Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences and simplify complex problems into component parts for short, medium and long-term delivery.
• Proven ability to manage product backlogs, define and prioritise features, and align delivery with strategic goals.
• In-depth experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams to gather requirements and steer them through discovery, refinement and delivery.
• A data-informed mindset, with experience of measuring products against KPIs such as reach, conversion, and user satisfaction to guide product decisions.
• Strategic thinking and commercial awareness, able to balance user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility to make effective product decisions to prioritise development.
• Excellent planning and organising skills, effective at prioritising, scheduling and tracking work across dependencies taking account of deadlines, staffing and resource requirements.

Working arrangements

Please note this is a 12-month fixed term contract.

This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our London office.

At BHF we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

About us

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.

We value and respect every individual s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.

Interview process

First stage interviews will be a short one-way video interview. Interviews will then be held via MS teams and in person, at our London offices.

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