Overview
As a Product Owner in Howden’s London or Amersham offices, you will bridge business needs with engineering delivery for internal systems that support time recording, billing, file exchange, contacts management and documents management. You will define and prioritise work, maintain roadmaps, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver value while upholding Howden standards. You will drive requirement analysis, stakeholder alignment and delivery planning, balancing complex priorities with agile practices. This role offers exposure to a broad internal product portfolio and opportunities to influence process improvements and technical excellence. You will work in a dynamic, cross-site
Pay / Benefits
- competitive discretionary annual bonus
- life assurance of four times salary
- income protection of 75% of salary for up to five years
- single private medical insurance
- pension scheme with 5% employee + 10% employer contributions
- 25 days’ annual leave (27 after five years)
Responsibilities
- Act as primary interface to capture and analyse business and technical requirements and communicate approved pathways
- Maintain standards and policies, ensuring maturity and reportability with Engineering Managers and senior management
- Analyse queries, manage workload/tickets by complexity and priority, and document solutions for complex issues
- Create, assign and raise tickets in ADO; maintain roadmaps using Product Plan
- Oversee design, development, testing and release of software, coordinating with other managers
- Collaborate with Product Owners and delivery leads to build team roadmaps
- Lead key business project developments and process improvements
- Drive design and planning by removing ambiguities and providing engineering estimates
Key requirements
- Experience in a similar Product Owner role with back-end product focus
- Proficiency with a Microsoft tech stack and Azure DevOps (ADO)
- Strong written and oral communication for clarity and transparency
- Ability to build relationships with engineering teams and stakeholders
- Capacity to manage complex requirements with multiple internal stakeholders
- Positive challenging and influencing mindset
- Good organisational skills and adaptability to change
- Interest in growing Agile understanding within the managed product set
- excellent communication
- stakeholder management
- relationship building
- Microsoft tech stack
- Azure DevOps (ADO)
- back-end product experience
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