Product Owner

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

Key Accountabilities
Key Accountabilities

• You will be a key decision maker, working closely with the Head of Products 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 Head of Products with the product/service lifecycle - 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 homebased - Remote

Experience, Skills and Qualifications
Essential Skills and Attributes:

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  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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  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 centred 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:

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  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 Heads of 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
Client Innovation Products

Office
from home

Closing Date
‎26 Jul ‎2022