Product Owner (data focus)

Are 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 measures of success, to identify how creative products
can help them to get their work done.

If having a positive culture matter to you, as a member of the Keoghs IT
department, you will engage with a great team who love new technologies. We
have a fast-growing working environment, where we empower and trust our team
to work independently whilst also pulling together to achieve our objectives.

We are a diverse team and are an equal opportunity employer
We are looking for someone to take the role of Product Owner of our new data
platform which is revising our whole approach to data, the way it is stored
and the way it is consumed, applying a "data centric" approach to application
development. We are starting from the ground up so this is an opportunity to
be involved from the outset and have influence in the way we create this
platform, and products which consume data. If you have a keen interest in the
importance of data and how it is used in applications, then this could be the
role for you!

Key Accountabilities
Key Accountabilities
* You will be a key decision maker, working closely with the relevant lead and key team members to craft and deliver stories that ultimately help us to achieve our aims and objectives.

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  You will own your own backlog, agree priorities and ensure that the backlog is ordered correctly.

  
  


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  You will take an active role in assisting the relevant lead with the product/service life cycle - involved in planning, process design, deployment and benefits realization.

  
  


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  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.

  
  


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  Create user stories to breakdown features and epics into end to end functionality

  
  


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  Create user story acceptance criteria using the Given-When-Then Gherkin format

  
  


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  Work with the team to develop UI/UX wireframes and prototypes, ensuring a user centred design approach

  
  

Working Hours
‎35 hours per week
Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm with ‎1 unpaid hour for lunch.
Primary location for this role is home - Remote

Experience, Skills and Qualifications
Essential Skills and Attributes:
* You will be a self-starter with a strong work ethic that can work with limited supervision.

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  You should have a strong client focus and consistent track record of delivering to user needs

  
  


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  Demonstrate a strong knowledge in the domain of insurance and claims

  
  


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  You will have some experience in working with data and will understand the importance of data, both how it is stored and how it is consumed.

  
  


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  You will need to be a skilled problem solver; a key requirement for this role is being able to deconstruct problems into constituent parts in order to come to the best solution.

  
  


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  Good communication skills both written and verbal are also a requirement.

  
  


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  Being focused and accurate, you will need to have a data driven approach to feature development

  
  


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  You should have experience of user centered design and have a keen interest in UI design and user experience

  
  


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  You will have an open and expansive approach, willing and able to interact internally and externally and at all levels within the company.

  
  


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  You will show a highly committed attitude.

  
  

How we will support you: .
* We are flexible with working hours and will generally work around your needs where we can

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  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, possibly a handful of times a year.

  
  


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  We will provide you with support from our Head of Operational Products, our Head of Solutions Architecture and our Head of Value Enablement to learn and improve our working practices

  
  


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  We will provide you with a coach to support you with your professional development plan

  
  


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  You will find that your colleagues are down-to-earth and make for good team-mates.

  
  

Values
Our culture is focussed 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

Contract Type
Permanent

Area
IT

Sub Area
Operational Products

Office
from home

Closing Date
‎26 Jul ‎2022