Digital Product Owner

Digital Product Owner– Conversion

 

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £70,000-£80,000 (flexible) + bonus & strong package

Location: Reading – Very Flexible

Consultant: Mags Rendle

 

 

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Move your career forward and embark on a career within this high-profile brand. DRC are working with a highly successful business who are expanding their Digital marketing team and you will have the opportunity to be a part of this inspiring and talented new team whilst working in a brand-new role.

 

 

The Role:

 

Our client has embarked on a transformation journey to support their business strategy which includes modernising their operating model as well as their technology architecture.

 

As the Product Owner, you will have the responsibility for a product area within the larger digital domain, driving product strategy, roadmap and execution for that by leading a team of business analysts and working closely with the technology shared services’ team (architecture, engineering etc.) to help ensure quality of delivery, measure performance and communicate progress to stakeholders. As a Product Owner you will be supporting the implementation and measurement of continuous change across the digital platforms. The Digital Experience team will define and manage customer experience through 3 product areas; Customer Engagement, Conversion and Content & Product, all reporting directly to the Digital Experience Product Manager. The Conversion PO will focus on maximising the customer experience through improved customer journeys, optimised search and merchandising. The PO will help ensure that onsite visits convert to store visits in order to maximise sales

 

 

 

Your Responsibilities:

 

 

Working with Business stakeholders, set vision for your products using industry knowledge, functional expertise and your understanding of the business context. Support the business owner in defining objectives that will influence the product vision

Leading the development team in delivering value to the user

Managing live products to ensure value is being delivered to end users. Ensuring BAU operations are achieved, and system availability is maintained

Accountable for maximising the value of the product resulting from work of the development team and through its end-to-end lifecycle

Responsible for the product development and operations, participating in planning (Sprint and Product increment) and providing a refined and precisely prioritised product backlog for the development team

Understanding user needs, how the business works and driving the development of the product through clear prioritisation. Envisaging and understand the final product and convey the value it creates and what problems it solves

Understand Agile estimation approaches and support the delivery team in being self-managing

Combine awareness of the relevant business area, the retail market and their customers to ensure products satisfy all three

Identify trends and keep up to date of new technical developments which could improve or redefine the product and customer experience

Support the operationalisation of the product into the wider organisation and ensure adoption of products across the organisation

Support the delivery of products from product launch to measuring engagement, working closely with the engineering team

Support their transformation by proactively educating colleagues within technology and wider about agile methodologies and product management

 

 

Skills & Experiences

 

 

Over 3 years’ experience in business relationship management in a digital environment

Industry or functional expertise validated through experience working for a Retailer

Able to clearly articulate the evolution of products through design thinking and user story mapping

An appropriate degree, equivalent qualification or experience

Preferably a certification in Agile Product Ownership, Scaled Agile or equivalent

 

 

The Successful candidate will have

 

 

Be a passionate and visionary technologist able to inspire others to challenge and disrupt the current reality to co-create a compelling technology-orientated future business by:

Being able to scan potential technologies (established, emerging and emergent)

Finding ways to translate that into business opportunities

Be able to take people along with you, empowering new ways of working and successfully executing on those opportunities

Possess proven experience in establishing and growing products

Have excellent knowledge of relevant business portfolio and functional expertise

Consistent record of driving service and delivery improvement

Commercial management experience and financial literacy

Excellent communication skills – relatability to non-technical business users and technical resources

Excellent people leadership skills

 

 

What next

 

Curious to know more and discuss the company opportunity, and their benefits further? Apply below and Mags Rendle will be in touch to answer all your questions.

 

 

The Digital Recruitment Company is an Employment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.

 

To apply for this role please contact us at:

 

Mags Rendle

 

0203 640 2133

 

mags@digitalrecruitmentcompany.com

 

www.digitalrecruitmentcompany.com