Lead Product Owner

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A market leading financial client based in Halifax require an accomplished Lead Product Owner to join them for an exciting and challenging engagement.

For this opportunity you will be an employee of ourselves working on site with the client while being rewarded with a strong salary, holidays, pension, certification opportunities and more!

Job Title: Lead Product Owner

Duration: 9 months

Location: Halifax (2 days a week onsite)

Start: Immediately

The role will report to the Work Lab lead and is responsible to oversee the release of incremental value for many product features, with the primary aim of delivering value to colleagues and stakeholders, by ensuring the team focuses on the right priorities.

Experience and skills Required:

• Delivers outcomes by supervising, guiding and leading others within the Feature Team
• Ability to define and communicate a clear product vision and roadmap.
• Accountability for prioritisation, refinement & management of team product backlog.
• Using data driven insight to effectively prioritise and breakdown the feature roadmap to improve effectiveness of team delivery whilst continuing to deliver and measure value.
• Defines user-stories at Team level to meet customer need.
• An understanding of RAID management, ability to uncover emerging issues and/or needs and identify potential causes, related issues, key collaborators and barriers.
• Experience using collaboration platforms such as Jira & Confluence
• Experience working using agile principles.
• Collaboration with key stakeholders and ability to balance competing priorities from Centres of Excellence

Responsibilities:

• Supports development of Team OKRs and provides product performance and benefits realisation data.
• Works with Customer Journey Manager to analyse user stories for customer journey improvements.
• Provides input into overall Product vision and Product roadmap
• Prioritises, refines and manages Team Product backlog.
• Accountable for Product change governance (e.g., CMIA / SPFIA) and Business Readiness activities (e.g., training and comms, testing and readiness for implementation) for their respective features, journeys or technology components. Note: PO's are accountable but activities to be delivered by the whole 'team'.
• Investigates incidents and develops contingency plans.
• Implements development frameworks for their area, coach and mentor others in the organisation.
• Works with Integrators when change is particularly large.

**Ajilon Consultant**

You will be an integral part of Ajilon (Adecco), a FTSE500 Global organisation with over 52 clients and sole supplier to the biggest organisations in the country and the world. You will be employed by ourselves as an Ajilon Consultant working onsite with our client where you will receive a regular salary, annual bonus payment, pension contributions, holiday and sick pay, plus a number of additional benefits such as medical insurance, income protection, critical illness and life insurance, access to our discounted benefits website and library of online training materials and future career and certification opportunities.

This great opportunity is being offered on a PAYE basis which means a LTD/Umbrella company cannot be used.

If you think you have the experience and you would like to become an employee of this fast growing business unit within Ajilon please apply with your CV right now for swift consideration!