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About the Role

This role is for a Senior Product Owner to join the team and shape the future of the product landscape. You will bring previous product ownership or management experience, energy, and a strategic mindset to drive engaging user experiences, strong product ownership, and a clear platform focus supporting AZP’s vision and objectives. You will own the overall roadmap for your product journeys or platforms, driving the business change agenda to deliver accountable outcomes. You will also provide line management and thought leadership to Product Owners, ensuring Scrum teams align on business outcomes and roadmap priorities. You will be a clear thinker with vision, passion, energy, and attention to detail, with a drive to keep learning, improve ways of working, and support others to succeed, while being a genuine team player.

Responsibilities

Own, develop and communicate the capability roadmap and vision, maintaining the high-level plan and feature catalogue.
Continuously communicate the product vision to technical teams and business stakeholders, balancing short-term business outcomes with long-term strategy.
Maintain a clear view of platform upgrades and feature benefits, aligning them to business requirements and change priorities.
Make business priority decisions based on objectives, relative cost and effort, and ensure effective sequencing of delivery across the roadmap.
Work closely with Heads of Change and project leads so feature requests are understood and supported through effective communication and reporting.
Ensure capability resource requirements are aligned across the platform for both project delivery and business-as-usual activity, coordinating dependencies through the right governance.
Collaborate with technical teams to define non-functional requirements and support a consistent set of standards across the platform.
Clearly articulate release definitions, including new features, architecture considerations and, where appropriate, technical debt.
Maintain oversight of technical enablers and infrastructure sequencing, ensuring the required technical capability is understood, prioritised and supported in the backlog.
Ensure the platform or product supports overall business strategy as well as business-as-usual change activity.
Make sure initiatives have defined business cases and that outputs are aligned to deliver the required change and business outcomes.
Measure whether delivered changes achieve the intended outcomes and use these insights to refine future backlog development.
Proactively manage issues, risks and dependencies across the platform, taking action and escalating clearly where needed.
Secure funding and resources as appropriate, and present the vision and proposed features at each Program Increment planning session.
Lead the business element of Pre-PI planning, working with stakeholders to define inputs, milestones and high-level objectives for upcoming planning cycles.
Build and lead a high-performing product ownership team that is fit for purpose, efficient, effective and focused on delivering quality outcomes.
Provide consistent leadership across the product or platform area, supporting aligned ways of working, testing approaches and collaboration across teams.

Requirements

Proven experience as a Product Owner (or similar role) delivering technology-driven change
Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, SAFe, Kanban)
Experience managing product roadmaps, backlogs and performance metrics
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Ability to translate business needs into clear product strategies
Experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence
Strong analytical mindset with a focus on data-driven decision making
Working knowledge of relevant technology platforms.
Experience managing SLAs with IT and third-party partners.
Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage with experience using Generative AI tools such as onsite Webchat / Chat Bot systems.

Skills

Product Ownership
Product Management
Strategic Planning
Roadmap Development
Agile Methodologies
Scrum
SAFe
Kanban
Stakeholder Management
Communication
Product Strategy
Jira
Confluence
Analytical Mindset
Data-Driven Decision Making
Technology Platforms
SLA Management
Responsible AI
Generative AI

Location

Bournemouth
Leeds
London

Work Type

Hybrid working
Full-Time
Permanent

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

Circa £70,000 per year

Benefits

Flexible buy/sell holiday options
Hybrid working
Annual performance related bonus
Contributory pension scheme
Development days
A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
Retail discounts
Volunteering days
Flexible working options
Global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group
Fantastic career development and training

About the Company

Allianz is the world's number one insurance brand.
We are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter.
We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements.
Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.
At Allianz, we believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.
We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Equal Opportunity

Proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation, is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.