Our client, a global Insurance company, are currently looking to hire a Product Owner with experience in the London Markets Insurance sector to join the team on an Outside IR35 contract basis. This would be a hybrid working role, with the client site based in London.

As a Product Owner for our clients digital trading capabilities, you will be responsible for gathering, clarifying, and documenting requirements from various stakeholders, including business users, technology teams, and external partners. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into product deliveries, ensuring that the product meets the needs of our users and the business.

Key Accountabilities:

• Work with internal and insurer stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into product requirements
• Break requirements down in the backlog as user stories and acceptance criteria
• Prioritise the product backlog based on business value and other factors, such as cost, technical feasibility and resource availability
• Work with the engineering team to estimate the effort/cost of requirements in support of client business case development
• Refine the backlog collaboratively with the engineering team to ensure requirements are understood and uncover any gaps that need to be addressed to achieve the 'Definition of Ready'
• Ensure sufficient requirements are refined prior to sprint planning to ensure engineering capacity is being used effectively
• Build trusted relationships and communicate regularly with key clients and stakeholders
• Conduct user acceptance testing to ensure that the product meets the requirements and expectations of our customers

Knowledge & Experience:

• Proven experience of working as a Business Analyst or Product Owner through the whole life cycle of projects from initiation to benefits realisation
• Experience of working in an Agile project environment
• Experience with Agile tools such as Confluence, Azure DevOps etc.
• Experience of planning and facilitating workshops and managing discussions with confidence and leadership
• Previous experience of working in the insurance industry is advantageous, particularly in the London Market

Skills:

• Strong leadership qualities to bring clarity and guidance to the development team in a fast-moving environment
• Ability to perform detailed analysis and apply creative problem solving to deliver efficient and effective solutions
• Demonstrate the ability to elicit and articulate complex user and workflow requirements in a variety of ways to enable shared understanding across the development team
• Ability to build productive working relationships across the team and with key stakeholders

If this role would be a good fit for your skills and experience, please apply!

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age