Product Owner

Venesky Brown Recruitment Ltd ,
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
Salary: £500 per day

Overview

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation based in Glasgow, are currently looking to recruit a Product Owner for an initial 12 month contract on a rate of c.£500-575/day (inside of IR35). This role will be remote based. Responsibilities: • Lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop and deliver a specific product and integration requirements e.g. social security benefit or service function 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. • 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 wide range of stakeholders, within the organisation and Partner organisations Requirements: • Experienced Product Owner. • Very strong leadership and stakeholder engagement skills and experience. • Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders and teams in the organisation, 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. If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.