Product Owner

Vacancy
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Job Responsibilities

Full job description

Plagats Consulting is a global consulting consortium specializing in operations strategy and performance enhancement. Collaborating closely with our clients, we expedite their journey toward resilient operations for the future.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Product Owner / Project Manager to join our digital team. We are a leading, fast-growing digital agency based in East Lancashire. If you have the passion for web development, to learn and prove yourself then don’t be afraid to apply or at least give us a shout.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage your product from inception to delivery while aligned with the product roadmap.
  • Communicate effectively with stakeholders to define and prioritise the product backlog.
  • Collaborate with the QA team to ensure the product quality.
  • Work closely with delivery teams so they understand new features/user stories.
  • Use data analysis to understand current customer needs.
  • Have ownership and accountability of your product.

The Ideal Candidate

  • Will have been a Product Owner / Project Manager in a past or current role
  • Will have previous experience of delivering quality products
  • Will have the ability to build a strategy to build ground-breaking products
  • Will have a full understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
  • Will have experience using Confluence and Jira
  • Will be able to work semi-autonomously
  • Will be able to write user stories
  • Will be able to communicate well with internal and external stakeholders as well as managing time effectively

If you don’t have all of the above then don’t worry, we are hiring across the levels for Product Owners / Project Managers.

This role is a hybrid role of office (3 days) and home working.

Employment Status
Permanent
Educational Requirements
  • Product management: 2 years (required)
Experience Requirements

Knowledge and skills

  • Well experienced digital product owner 
  • Stakeholder management and facilitation of decisions of all sizes
  • Technical resource management
  • Project Manager collaboration
  • Management of Product Backlog
  • Development of User Stories
  • Sprint planning and tracking
  • Senior presentation skills (c-suite)
  • Risk and issue management
  • Agile project estimation using story pointing and velocity reporting
  • Project financial modelling

Requirements

  • Demonstrable experience of having delivered brilliant digital products and services
  • Strong Jira experience including story pointing and velocity tracking
  • Attention to detail, methodical approach
  • First-rate written and verbal communication
  • Proven personal development, self-management and a desire to be brilliant
  • Clear and concise relaying of ideas and concepts
  • Passionate about UX and previous involvement in creative UX builds
  • strong user story writing experience using, gherkin/cucumber format and providing acceptance criteria
  • Experience & confidence in public speaking

Advantageous

  • Digital agency experience
  • Atlassian ‘Confluence’ tool experience
  • Experience of working with both front-end and backend tech teams to deliver projects
  • Knowledge of sustainability issues and a passion to fix them using technology
  • Product Owner (certified)
  • Recent experience in the Ecommerce industry
Additional Requirements

We have vacancy for a product owner to pair up with one of delivery teams and support the optimisation of one of our platforms.

The success of our entire business relies on digital channels and a self-service first model. The energy industry is complex though and many systems and services must be integrated to create journeys that support our customers’ needs. We’re building these journeys that also allow our contact centre agents to fully support our customers and plug the gaps where self-service isn’t possible.

Responsibilities

  • Managing the build and continuous delivery of awesome software experiences that improve performance of our platforms
  • Managing stakeholders through steering, agile ceremonies, stand-ups and workshops
  • Run requirement gathering workshops with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Continuous monitoring of product-related technical debt, working alongside the developers to ensure that sprints have an appropriate mix of new functionality, fixes and on demands changes
  • Management of Product Backlog and prioritising requirements based on the business goals
  • Development of User Stories, Acceptance Criteria and Epics
  • Strong business case and cost benefit analysis skills

Key Relationships

  • Senior Business Stakeholders.
  • UX Team
  • Development teams
  • QA Team
Job Location
Various
Salary


Compensation & Other Benefits

Benefits

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including gym, shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

  • Additional leave
  • Casual dress
  • Company events
  • Company pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee discount
  • Enhanced maternity leave
  • Enhanced paternity leave
  • Free parking
  • Gym membership
  • Health & wellbeing programme
  • Life insurance
  • On-site parking
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Referral programme
  • Sick pay
  • Store discount
Read Before Apply
  • Product management: 2 years (required)
Email
Send your CV to info@plagats.com.