Experis UK
Data Product Owner
Milton Keynes
£600 – £650/day
Posted about 9 hours ago
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£600 - £650
Milton Keynes
2 days a week on site
Inside IR35
Credit check required at interview stage
Main Responsibilities
- Own and drive data products and services from inception to completion, including management and prioritisation of features backlog and constant iteration ensuring product delivery runs smoothly, on time and within budget and meeting commercial targets.
- Lead a cross functional team to promptly deliver new propositions to the market.
- Work closely with support teams across Customer & Product Transformation, IT and local business teams to identify the relevant resources, skills and training required to develop and integrate products.
- Engage with, guide and support the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Board of Management (BoM) to ensure understanding and buy-in on necessary data products, including any monetary investment required.
- Fully own backlog prioritisation to maintain the product roadmap including prioritisation between new functional capabilities and addressing technical debt.
- Work closely with HQ to understand and influence the VWFS technology and data platform roadmaps to ensure technical capabilities required by the UK market are available in a timely manner to support commercial requirements.
- Either directly managing; or through the matrix structure support; the development, coaching, engagement, motivation and management of the team(s) to perform at their best, role modelling effective people leadership and enabling a positive and inclusive culture.
- Support the shaping and execution of the Data Strategy and Target Operating Model by promoting innovation using available techniques (e.g. proof of value, prototying).
- Maintain close control of Data Product Team budget, expenditure and financial forecast.
- Define, measure and track realisation of benefits from data products.
- Ensure that data products adhere to data governance, data quality and analytics governance standards.
- Monitor adoption metrics and continuously improve usability and value, gathering user feedback to iterate and enhance data product functionality.
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Skills & Personal Characteristics Required
- Driven to achieve commercial performance and sales performance with the self-motivation to deliver.
- Customer focussed and will actively seek to expand your knowledge about their needs, helping to shape understanding through personas, aligned to Data Culture and Data Literacy initiatives.
- A strategic thinker, able to take an idea through to execution with a natural problem solving ability within complex environments.
- Naturally inquisitive, with a desire to gain deep knowledge about the market landscape, the value propositions of competitors and key trends.
- Highly driven and can evangelise and build excitement for the data strategy.
- Ability to partner and influence effectively across all levels of an organisation, and regularly use these skills to improve the work going on around the role.
- An excellent communicator and storyteller, communicating concepts and ideas to stakeholders at all levels, in different shapes depending on the context.
- Ability to communicate complex data and arguments in a way that is accessible to everyone.
- Understanding of key operational compliance aspects. Treat Customer Fairly, Financial Conduct Authority, FCA/ regulatory compliance.
- Strong team leadership skills and the ability to inspire, develop, engage and motivate colleagues to perform.
- Proven coaching and mentoring skills with an ability to manage performance, hold difficult conversations and give constructive and motivational feedback.
- Ability to set standards in terms of behaviour, culture and performance and ensure the standards are embedded within their area of responsibility.
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Skills
Product Ownership
Backlog Prioritization
Stakeholder Management
Data Strategy
Cross-functional Leadership
Budget Management
Data Governance
People Leadership
Strategic Thinking
Coaching and Mentoring
Commercial Performance
Storytelling
Regulatory Compliance
Data Literacy
Problem Solving
Financial Forecasting