Product Owner

Recruiter
Anonymous
Location
North Lanarkshire
Salary
Competitive
Posted
23 May 2019
Closes
20 Jun 2019
Contract Type
Temporary
Hours
Full Time
We are working on behalf of our highly regarded public sector client who require a Product Owner who will be responsible for the development and delivery of a particular product including supporting technologies and processes.

This role attracts a Daily Rate of GBP180.34, and is based in Glasgow city centre, with occasional travel required between offices in Edinburgh and Dundee .

Working to a Service Manager, Product Owners will be responsible for bringing together and managing a multi-disciplinary team, which includes specialist resources from policy development, analysts, user research and service design, technical staff, specialist advisors and others; managing their work within an agile project delivery framework.

This requirement has been categorised as inside IR35.

Main Duties

- Lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop and deliver a specific product to meet the needs of users. These users will include applicants and recipients of advice and financial support; partner organisations, and administrative staff.
- Define and obtain stakeholder buy-in for your product and the approach to delivery.
- Create effective, prioritised product descriptions and delivery plans to meet user needs in a cost effective way
- Interpret user research in order to make the correct product decisions ensuring they reflect user needs
- Understand the relationship between your specific products and the overall delivery of the new organisation, and its wider systems and processes, reflecting this within your area.
- Write options appraisals, business cases and provide information that enable the programme to choose appropriate delivery options and/or procure technology and services.
- Communicate credibly with a broad range of stakeholders, within the wider organisation and Partner organisations

Essential Skills and Experience

- Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders, internal teams , IT providers and partner organisations to deliver services and systems, with the aim of providing better results for citizens.
- Ability to bring together views and perspectives of a broad range of internal and external stakeholders including commercial and procurement specialists to provide a strong evidence base and documentation for decisions.
- Ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team and set priorities for yourself and others in a project and/or programme, using established, recognised best practice project methodologies
- Ability to enable decision-making at the right level within your teams, removing unnecessary bureaucracy and facilitating delivery