* Working Hours: Standard (09:00am-17:30pm)
* Office or Field Based: Office Based (Cheadle, SK8 3GW)
* Contract type: Fixed Term
Company Description
* New / Permanent role
* Base salary £60k - £65k+ (up to) 20% annual bonus
* Corporate benefits package including: Health cover and local gym access
* Work at a highly profitable business; trading for 51 years, investing heavily in tech and people
* Role based from our state of the art offices in Cheadle (South Manchester)
We’re Together – the market leading property finance experts with an entrepreneurial spirit. Based in Cheadle, South Manchester, we’ve been established since 1974 and have built a team of over 750 colleagues, who are passionate about supporting individuals and businesses achieve their property ambitions by taking a common-sense approach to lending a range of mortgage and secured loan products.
We’re looking for great people like you! from diverse backgrounds and experiences who love working together and putting customers at the heart of everything we do.
Job Description
Together operates a hybrid change delivery model, leveraging the best of agile and scrum practices alongside a portfolio of projects that are governed and executed against a more traditional project framework.
As our Senior Product Owner, you will be a member of an Agile Team responsible for defining Product Backlog Items and prioritising the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of business priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team.
You will have responsibility for work that supports changes currently being made through the introduction of our new Tech Platform.
This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside the local team, including working with Product Management, End Users, Business Owners, and other key stakeholders.
As a Senior Product Owner, typical duties would include (but not limited to):
* Ensure that vision and strategy are communicated and understood inside the team to ensure alignment and commitment.
* Understand the market, customer, product EOL (end of life), product technology and roadmap. Build the associated change into the delivery plan.
* Identify, define and prioritise enablers (includes negotiation and agreement in team, RTEs and business).
* Support key stakeholders with the provision of new change to drive value based on data, research and feasibility.
* Actively challenge and influence the Product Roadmap with the Product Manager to ensure we are delivering the right solutions at the right time.
* Own and maintain the Product Backlog, which may span across multiple teams, ensuring that it is well refined and prioritised for maximum value delivery in line with the train priorities/ the Product Roadmap.
Qualifications
* Ability to influence stakeholders
* Experience working within a Financial Services business (preferred but not essential)
* Demonstrable analytical skills
* Ability to work happily within both 'traditional' / Waterfall and Agile methodologies
Additional Information
Benefits working at Together
* 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
* Buy & sell holidays
* Discretionary annual bonus
* Subsidised onsite restaurant (amazing food!)
* Life assurance
* Critical illness cover
* Health cash plan
* Private medical insurance
* Free access to company holiday homes
* Travel season ticket loans
* Ride to work scheme
* Free local gym access
* Local bar / restaurant discounts
Together Money embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
We care that you have a great experience with us at Together; if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to make your experience easier, please let us know and we’ll do all we can.
Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.
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