Product Owner

As a Product Owner you will work alongside the Product Leads and Senior Product Owners, supporting the implementation and measurement of continuous change, aligned to the Product Vision and Key Results (OKR’s). These OKR’s feed into the overarching EUI Targets which align to the company strategy.

Aligned to our key objectives you will work closely with key stakeholders to gather, analyse, prioritise, record in detail, and communicate requirements for change.  Working closely with IT, you’ll help ensure quality of delivery, measure performance and communicate progress. When the change has been made available to our customers, you will monitor the performance and the impact on the objectives.

Main duties

• Coordinate and communicate the prioritisation of the squad sprint backlog. Understand & communicate the vision and value of work assigned to the Squad.
• Represent the customer.
• Ensuring the change roadmap is prioritised based on customer feedback, sound business value and data driven insight.
• Master the data - Analysis and communication of MI, using various analytics tools and internal MI data, tracking performance against targets, and identifying areas for improvement.
• Feed ideas, opportunities, challenges, and risks into the Product Lead to help shape the current and future strategy.
• Understands the Level 2 OKR’s for the ART and has the ability to create a backlog to help achieve these.
• Defines Level 3 OKR’s for the Planning Interval aligned to the Prioritisation of the ART.
• Gathering, writing, and communicating to IT, requirements for change.
• Working closely with the IT development team to ensure timely and accurate delivery of new functionality.
• Primary contact for stakeholders during build.  Communicating progress and managing expectations.  Conducting show and tells and gaining delivery approval.
• Working closely with our designers to transform new ideas from sketches to prototypes.
• An active member of the Product Community of practice.

Experience and qualifications required.

Essential skills:

• Strong customer focus.
• Excellent communication both written and verbal.
• Good interpersonal skills and effective communication to all levels.
• Ability to build good working relationship within the squad and the ART and its stakeholders.
• Understanding of our current customer journeys and how to improve these with the customer at the forefront of any change.
• Understand compliance elements that need to be considered to ensure that our customers receive good outcomes.
• Understand Agile ways of working and practices.
• Comfortable analysing and interpreting data with an ability to use this to solve problems.
• Is able to input on business cases and help to monitor the success of these post release of new change.
• Keen eye for detail.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to change.

Desirable:

• Experience of working within agile teams.
• Experience of analysing and refining processes and functions.
• Experience of working within and Agile development structure.
• Experience of using Jira to write user stories and manage sprint priorities.

Additional Information

• We will review your CV within 5 working days of application and get back to you.
• We are a hybrid working team and you will be required to come to our Cardiff office 1-2 days per week (or more if you prefer)
• We will give you everything you need to work comfortably from home.

Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.

Our Commitment to You

At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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