Product Owner - FTC

Job Description

Product Owner - FTCJob PurposeAre you a Product Owner with the ability to deliver value for our clients Could you be responsible for your own product backlog As a Product Owner, you will work within an Agile Scrum team and get to know our clients’ roles, needs, pressures and measuresof success, to identify how creative products can help them to get their work done.If having a positive culture matters to you, as a member of the Keoghs IT department, you will engage with a great team who love innovative technologies. We have a fast-growing working environment, where we empower and trust our team to work independentlywhilst also pulling together to achieve our objectives.Key Accountabilities

• You will be a key decision maker, working closely with the senior leaders and key team members to craft and deliver stories that help us to achieve our aims and objectives.
• You will own your own backlog, agree priorities, and ensure that the backlog is ordered correctly.
• You will take an active role in assisting the senior leaders with the product/service life cycle - involved in planning, process design, deployment, and benefits realization.
• You will work closely with key team members to understand required changes, facilitate communication between the team and the other interested parties and ensure the team is directed to work on the most cost-effective tasks.
• Create user stories to breakdown features and epics into end-to-end functionality
• Create user story acceptance criteria using the Given-When-Then Gherkin format
• Work with the team to develop UI/UX wireframes and prototypes, ensuring a user centered design approach

Working Hours35 hours per week Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm with 1 unpaid hour for lunch. Primary location for this role is home workingExperience, Skills and QualificationsEssential Skills and Attributes:

• You will be a self-starter with a strong work ethic that can work with limited supervision.
• You should have a strong client focus and consistent track record of delivering to user needs
• You will need to be a skilled problem solver; a key requirement for this role is being able to deconstruct problems into constituent parts to come to the best solution.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal are also a requirement.
• Being focused and accurate, you will need to have a data driven approach to feature development
• You should have experience of user centered design and have a keen interest in UI design and user experience
• You will have an open and expansive approach, willing and able to interact internally and externally and at all levels within the company.
• You will show a highly committed attitude.

How we will support you:

• We are flexible with working hours and will work around your needs where we can
• This role is mostly remote working. All we ask is that you are willing to come into our office in Bolton or a location in the surrounding area on an occasional basis, a handful of times a year.
• We will provide you with support from our senior leadership team to learn and improve our working practices
• We will provide you with a coach to support you with your professional development plan
• You will find that your colleagues are down-to-earth and make for good team-mates.

What you can expect from us:

• A learning culture with employee development at the heart of the people development pathway
• Excellent flexible benefits including Annual leave entitlement and Healthcare Cash Plan as standard
• Cash care Plan
• Death In Service - after 1 year
• Pension Contribution
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays.

ValuesOur culture is focused on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our five values are at the heart of everything we do;Keoghs values

• We listen, are down to earth and supportive
• We work together towards a common goal
• We’re friendly with a can-do attitude
• We care about our clients
• We evolve