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Product Owner

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services requires a Product Owner with a minimum of 3 years’ experience and 5+ years of experience in developing requirements and performing system analysis

This is a remote role, however some travel to the client’s offices (Havant or Reading) may be required.

This is a 6 month temporary contract to start ASAP.

Day rate: Competitive market rate

Key Responsibilities

• Define the vision of the product in collaboration with key stakeholders and socialise with the team
• Evolve the product roadmap based on customer, product team and business feedback, linked to business outcomes
• Determine developments to the strategic roadmap based on business strategy changes
• Work with portfolio team to set funding and investment requirements
• Oversee product priorities, resource requirements, development stages working with leadership to attain further funding as required
• Anticipating customer needs, managing the product backlog and prioritising needs based on value delivered
• Act as primary liaison for business stakeholder and maintain business engagement to educate on the product’s growth, strategic value and investment case
• Turning the product vision into an actionable backlog
• Provide business subject matter expertise and authority on product decisions
• Remove impediments to product progress and assist with work dependencies, risks and issues
• Act as the voice of the customer to the product team, constantly providing feedback on delivery
• Providing business readiness support – supports business leaders in preparation for implementation and change management in product rollout & enhancements
• Evaluating the product’s progress against defined business outcomes
• Secures investment and resource to continue Product development and growth
• Proactive sharing of knowledge to drive technology learning, understanding and appreciation across the business
• Ensure that IT/business strategy, policy and standards are adhered to, thus achieving commonality and ease of maintenance.
• Analyse problems, action, and progress issues as appropriate, ensuring follow through to resolution.
• Providing input into the governance process itself, including the methods and tools to be used
• Applying lessons learnt process and actively elicit relevant feedback

Key Skills and Experience

• 3+years’ experience in Product Owner or similar role
• 5+ years of experience in developing requirements and performing system analysis
• An ability to build and maintain strong working relationships across the organisation to help secure buy-in and support for your product vision and priorities
• Ability to negotiate and collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skillset
• Excellent communicator and strong listener to enable the departments
• A good working knowledge of GDPR and PECR principles to provide governance and standards and minimise legal and reputational risk to the organisation
• Ability to maintain a close working relationship with the other application stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment requiring multitasking, efficient time management and excellent communication skills.
• Experience in working in an Agile working environment is desirable

Candidate Specifications

• Assertive and Articulate
• Good communication skills
• Work closely with the team
• Outstanding communication
• Good team skill

Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately we cannot respond to everyone.

If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

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