Product Owner - Marketplace at Kingfisher | Southampton, England, United Kingdom | Rezi

Product Owner - Marketplace at Kingfisher

Product Owner - Marketplace

Kingfisher · Southampton, England, United Kingdom

2 months ago

Product Owner - Marketplace

Kingfisher · Southampton, England, United Kingdom

2 months ago
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About the Role

This is a high-impact Product role central to shaping, delivering, and scaling Kingfisher’s marketplace proposition. You will take complex business and customer problems, break them down into clear, actionable insights, and communicate product ideas in a simple, compelling way. Using data to guide decisions, you will prioritize initiatives that drive the greatest customer value and partner closely with cross-functional teams to deliver against key KPIs. You will own and drive the vision and roadmap for your product workstream, aligning with Group strategy while collaborating across Kingfisher banners and external partners to define priorities and delivery plans. You will lead the execution of value-driven initiatives and continuous improvements, ensuring a robust, scalable platform that delivers against both technical and commercial objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Engages stakeholders through gaining critical input to understand priorities and dependencies
  • Creates the value stream road map and vision for business area based on business and technology requirements
  • Works collaboratively with external third parties and other Kingfisher teams to plan, determine, prioritise implementation of solutions
  • Gathers input, creates high level backlog and prioritises these in conjunction with stakeholders
  • Defines proposition/proposal behind the features - documents respective assumptions and suggests a scope for the minimal viable proposition (MVP)
  • Agrees and tracks key metrics with stakeholders to measure output and delivery results against objectives
  • Leads ongoing refinement effort to make sure each team has work prepared for the next sprint, ahead of existing sprint delivery. Adjusts scope where necessary based on sprints outputs
  • Works with teams and Engineering Squad Leads on planning product releases, ensuring key stakeholders are engaged and delivery is planned and in alignment with business priorities
  • Works closely with Solutions Architect to align product and the technical vision
  • Understands technical trade-offs made by development teams and architects with regards to the value stream
  • Ensures technical complexity is taken into account for backlog prioritisation alongside business value
  • Tracks progress towards the release of a product through detailed planning methodology and review
  • Collaborates with stakeholders in prioritising defect or bug resolution

Requirements

  • Analytical with confident technology literacy and PC skills
  • Strong influencing and facilitation skills
  • Strong networking and team working ability across all seniority levels
  • Able to build, engage, lead and deliver using robust project methodology
  • Understanding of business value related to features and functions
  • Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Able to effectively manage conflicting needs of stakeholders

Skills

  • Knowledge of agile working practices (desirable)
  • Knowledge/background of retail E-commerce and Marketplace implementation (desirable)

Work Type

  • Hybrid

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package
  • Plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career

About the Company

  • Kingfisher is a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life.
  • Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone.
  • We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality.
  • Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.

Equal Opportunity

  • Our customers come from all walks of life - and so do we. We’re committed to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.