Product Owner (12-month FTC)

People's Postcode Lottery
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 65K

Job location

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Scrum
Salesforce
Data Streaming

Job description

You'll be accountable for defining product vision, prioritising work based on value, and ensuring the delivery of scalable, reliable and customer centric solutions. You'll bridge the gap between business needs and technical delivery, ensuring that what we build today can evolve and grow with the organisation as future proof solutions. You'll bridge the gap between business needs and technical delivery, ensuring that what we build today can evolve and grow with the organisation tomorrow. You'll bridge the gap between business needs and technical delivery, ensuring that what we build today can evolve and grow with the organisation tomorrow.

If you thrive in an agile environment, enjoy turning complex challenges into clear product direction, and are motivated by delivering tangible outcomes as part of a transformation programme, we'd love to hear from you.

This is what you will do:

  • Define product vision, and growth opportunities with the team.
  • Create a roadmap balancing business value, vision and technical requirements.
  • Define and create clear MVP products with your product team.
  • Lead sessions around epic sizing, refinements or other ways to help prioritize and create a high standard of output.
  • Ensure clear and timely communication with all stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with internal and external contacts to analyse needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.
  • Work closely with value stream product managers and stakeholders to create and maintain product backlog according to business value.
  • Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities within your value stream
  • Enable the team to have focussed and productive sprints, for example by having prepared and prioritized tasks ready to be picked up and working with clear sprint goals.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Scrum?, Do you have a Master's degree?, We're particularly interested in Product Owners with strong experience in:

  • CRM product development and optimisation
  • Large-scale enterprise CRM implementations, ideally in complex, multi-market environments
  • Driving end-to-end CRM capability improvements, including customer journeys, segmentation, automation and personalisation
  • Working closely with technical teams to deliver CRM integrations, data flows and platform enhancements
  • Salesforce experience would be a strong advantage, * Master's degree in business and/or technical sciences
  • Significant experience with product and/or project management
  • Experience working with / and managing Agile / Scrum projects
  • Excellent organisational and communication skills
  • Understanding how requirements translate to technical solutions and product design
  • Prior experience delivering high profile software, web or eCommerce projects in international teams.
  • You get stuff done. You live and breathe an entrepreneurial attitude. You preferably set up, executed and successfully delivered end-to-end projects from scratch within an organization, or had experience running your own company

Benefits & conditions

You will receive a competitive salary, up to £65,000 per annum, join an excellent pension scheme and benefit from private medical care.

We have a strong culture of learning and development. Our Lottery Academy offers an extensive range of training programmes and courses. There are many career opportunities in the UK and abroad.

We enjoy working with one another. We regularly arrange social activities and organise our Christmas breakfast at the end of the year, a date that everyone looks forward to, where we look back proudly at what we've achieved together.

Your wellbeing is important to us. That's why we offer a variety of options including an inhouse gym, with an optional monthly massage, and access to mental health support services.

You're regularly involved in the work carried out by the charities thanks to the funds we raise for them. This includes volunteering, project visits, presentations in our seminar space, and the opportunity to be nominated for a Reward trip to visit some of the organisations we support.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary Contract length: 12 months

Pay: Up to £65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Casual dress
  • Company events
  • Company pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee discount
  • Enhanced maternity leave
  • Enhanced paternity leave
  • Flexitime
  • Free flu jabs
  • Free or subsidised travel
  • Gym membership
  • Health & wellbeing programme
  • Life insurance
  • On-site gym
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Private dental insurance
  • Private medical insurance
  • Sick pay

About the company

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of our transformation, solving complex problems and delivering products that reach millions of players across the Postcode Lottery Group.

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