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Product Owner - Employee Devices

Product Owner - Employee Devices

Posted 11 July by eFinancialCareers
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Competitive salary
Hove , East Sussex
Permanent, full-time
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Company Description

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind the scenes. It's up to us inL&G Group functions- which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Affairs - to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we're helping to improve our customers' lives and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

Legal and General's Group Digital Workplace team are looking to hire a Product Owner to take accountability for the Employee Devices consisting of laptops, desktops, peripherals, tablets, and mobile phones to name but a few. The role will see you own the lifecycle management around these products, working with vendors to make informed selection decisions, optimising our client hardware, and managing our asset information.

You will also be responsible for creating the vision and goals to ensure the success of the products, taking ownership over the prioritisation of the workload, requirement gathering from stakeholders to understand user needs, evaluating the performance of current tools, and identifying and implementing tools where necessary, while gaining buy in from the business through showcasing progress made. What you'll be doing:
  • Taking responsibility for communicating the product vision, roadmap and goal in a way that is consumable by stakeholders and development teams
  • Creating, managing, and prioritising the Product backlog and proposed roadmap with value metrics that allow the product to launch, improving or evolving in alignment with the business objectives or customer needs and product goal and vision
  • Defining and refining requirements of the Product to ensure continual operational excellence for the Product, including ensuring the requirements are clear and deliverable by the development team, owning and managing budget, prioritising based on value and progress against the roadmap, and the ongoing evolution and improvement of the Product to achieve continued operational excellence
  • Taking responsibility for stakeholder collaboration by actively engaging with stakeholders, acting as the storyteller of the Product gathering, feedback, insights and ensuring the Product meets both business and user requirements. This includes representing the needs and interests of the users of the Product through feedback analysis, identification of user problems and preferences and validation of the product
  • Making timely and informed decisions regarding feature prioritisation, trade-offs, and adjustments to the Product roadmap to maximise value delivery, including managing conflicts and issues during the product lifecycle to deliver the maximum value for the Product and vision
  • Working closely with the development team, leading, coaching, and providing guidance across the team where applicable, to foster a collaborative environment to enhance productivity and achievement of goals
Qualifications

Who we're looking for:
  • Product Ownership, (Scrum or Safe would be desirable) experience
  • A deep level understanding of client device technologies and the architecture that underpins them
  • An understanding of the variety of Agile Frameworks, that can be used and adapted to assist delivery
  • Demonstrated experience of product management
  • Experience of story mapping for customer/system/process journeys
  • Experience of supporting and owning budgets
  • A deep understanding of metric creation to track value and learnings
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
  • The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
  • Generous pension contribution
  • Life assurance
  • Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
  • At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday
  • Competitive family leave
  • Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
  • There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
  • In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart
Additional Information

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain's Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers' money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you're open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.
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