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Location: [North West UK Based - Flexible / Office Location / Remote]
Job Type: Full-time
About the Company:
The Citation Group is a fast growing, dynamic leader in the HR, Health & Safety, Certification and wider compliance sector, renowned for providing clients and their employees with the tools, support and advice they need to succeed in a competitive and legislative landscape. With a steadfast commitment to innovation and quality, we strive to deliver exceptional solutions that not only meet but exceed our customers' expectations. In line with our growth trajectory, we are on the lookout for dynamic Senior Product Owner to spearhead our product initiatives and contribute significantly to our market presence.
Role Overview:
Due to business growth plans the product team is expanding, introducing additional management layers for accountability and product centricity. As part of this expansion, we are introducing the Senior Product Owner role reporting into a Senior Product Lead.
The Senior Product Owner will proactively drive our technical product development lifecycle, championing the delivery of our strategies and product vision through global cross-functional teams. This role is pivotal in steering the management of global complex product backlogs, promoting best practice within their teams for defining and refining user stories, and ensuring the seamless delivery of features that resonate with the regional user base. With leadership and strategic foresight, the Senior Product Owner will work with Product Manager(s) to plan resources and roadmaps for upcoming initiatives. In turn they will lead and line manage a team of Product Owners outlining and facilitating the order of deliverables that realise value driven milestones and outcomes.
This role will work with multiple stakeholders to plan and deliver successful commercial outcomes for this key product vertical, including potential M&A integrations.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead by Example: Act as a model Product Owner to your team, mentoring, championing best practices, providing leadership and supporting delivery of the product vision.
* Strategic Roadmapping: Collaborate with Product Managers on the vision, roadmap creation, championing ‘One Best Thing’, impactful MVP delivery, and enhancement initiatives to drive value quickly alongside great UX and customer satisfaction.
* Market Insight: Stay ahead of market trends, understand customer needs, competitor product offerings and emerging technologies to maintain Citation’s competitive edge.
* Client & Business Alignment: Ensure all product updates reflect client and business priorities, are impact assessed and delivered through effective and timely execution of change management frameworks.
* Data-Driven Decisions: Analyse and exploit available data to drive roadmap decisions, user behaviour and engagement metrics, establishing KPIs and OKRs to guide product success.
* Team Leadership: Undertake line management responsibilities, overseeing direct reports’ development plans, fostering a culture of growth and continuous improvement.
* Agile Advocacy: Promote agile practices and continuous improvement across the product lifecycle whilst considering strategic plans and future resourcing.
* Cross-Functional Coordination: Align and communicate outputs from cross-functional efforts, coordinating architecture, design, engineering, and business stakeholders to maximize impactful delivery milestones based upon timely estimations.
* User Stories & Backlog Management: Champion crafting detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and well maintained outcome oriented backlogs to optimise team workload.
* AI & Innovation: Leverage AI and innovative tools to drive efficiencies in product development, service delivery and elevated customer satisfaction through UX/UI.
* Infosec Compliance: Ensure your team’s adherence to ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and related standards to safeguard data integrity (CIA and Security By Design).
Qualifications:
* A proven record working in product management in high-pressure, dynamic environments.
* Demonstrated leadership in team development, including crafting and managing personal growth plans.
* Subject matter expertise in Health & Safety preferred, but not essential.
* Strong knowledge and advocacy of agile methodologies and product development best practices.
* Excellent analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
* Effective communicator and cross-functional influencer.
* Strong understanding of infosec principles for risk mitigation in product development.
* Experience leveraging AI tools for process enhancement.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Product Management
* Industries
* Legal Services
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