Product Owner - Distribution and Quote
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Job description
We're seeking a Product Owner to lead the evolution of our Distribution and Quote software products. This key suite manages quote requests and responses across various channels, including brokers, introducers, and Policy Admin systems. Your role will be central to our Pricing Transformation, ensuring our quote and distribution capabilities are innovative, reliable, and aligned with business goals. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver value and enhance customer experience.
At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Support defining and communicating the product vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with broader business objectives.
- Ensure the product delivers tangible customer and business benefits, improving usability and efficiency.
- Lead system enhancements, consolidations, and ongoing support activities to optimise capabilities.
- Collaborate with engineering, data, pricing, underwriting, and customer experience teams to deliver outcomes on schedule, within budget, and to quality standards.
- Manage and prioritise the product backlog based on current business needs and customer priorities.
- Define clear acceptance criteria, review deliverables, and approve features to meet requirements and deliver value.
- Maintain high standards for product releases, ensuring features are reliable, robust, and meet quality expectations.
- Drive continuous improvement in data quality, privacy, compliance, and product resilience.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Warehouse experience?, * Proven experience in Product Ownership or Management within digital, tech-enabled insurance, financial services, or complex data-driven domains.
- Demonstrated expertise in managing quote management, distribution channels, and pricing/rating processes.
- Hands-on experience working with data models, data governance, and privacy considerations.
- Successful track record delivering digital products end-to-end in Agile (Scrum/SAFe) environments, including backlog management and stakeholder engagement.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), data stores (SQL/NoSQL), and data lake/warehouse concepts.
- Experience working with external vendors, managing contracts, SLAs, and data integrations.
- Knowledge of insurance distribution channels and regulatory requirements related to quoting and pricing transparency.
- Ability to translate business rules into technical specifications, especially for rating engines and pricing components.
Benefits & conditions
- Competitive annual salary
- Discretionary company & performance-based bonus
- Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
- Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
- Private medical cover
- 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
- Wellbeing services & resources
- AXA employee discounts
