Associate Product Owner

Company Outline

Job Role: Associate Product Owner

Location: Hybrid - London

Salary: Competitive (DoE)

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

What We Can Offer You: 25 Days Annual Leave, Additional Holiday Purchase, Hybrid Working, Performance-Related Bonus, Life Assurance, Vitality Private Healthcare, Subsidised Gym Memberships, Cycle to Work Scheme, Discount Vouchers and Access to Wellbeing Resources

Why do we want you?

At Axco (part of Wilmington plc) we're looking for an Associate Product Owner who's excited about building great digital products and keen to develop a career in Product. You'll be joining a supportive team where you'll work alongside experienced Product Owners, developers and stakeholders, helping to shape products used by some of the world's leading insurance organisations! You'll get involved in the full product journey, from understanding what customers need and helping define new features, through to supporting delivery and seeing your ideas come to life. If you're looking for a role where you can continue building the foundations for a long-term career in Product, we'd love to hear from you!

Please note: To complete your application, you will be redirected to Wilmington plc’s career site.   At Wilmington plc, we celebrate individuality and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. As a Disability Confident employer, we shortlist all applicants who meet the essential role criteria and guarantee an interview for candidates with disabilities who meet these criteria. For reasonable adjustments or to apply under our interview guarantee scheme, please use the contact details provided once you have clicked “ apply ”!

Job purpose, tasks and responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include

• Manage and prioritise the product backlog, ensuring work is clearly defined and ready for product development.
• Collaborate as part of a Scrum team, actively contributing to sprint planning and sprint reviews.
• Partner with business stakeholders and developers to translate requirements into high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Capture needs from colleagues, the business and clients to shape product and feature enhancements.
• Act as a day-to-day point of contact for the development team, providing clarity on requirements and supporting delivery throughout the sprint cycle.
• Support quality assurance and user-acceptance testing, working closely with the technical team ahead of each release.
• Engage with clients to gather feedback and understand how our products are used in the market.
• Communicate progress and product updates back to the business.

What's the Best Thing About This Role?

This role gives you the chance to have a real view of how digital products come together. You'll work closely with colleagues across the business to help shape ideas into features that customers use every day. Because you'll be involved throughout the process, you'll quickly build an understanding of both the products themselves and the thinking behind them.

It's also a great opportunity to learn from an experienced team, take on meaningful responsibility from an early stage, and develop your product skills in a supportive environment.

What's the Most Challenging Thing About This Role?

You'll be learning about Axco's products, customers and the markets we serve, and you'll be encouraged to take on responsibility fairly quickly as you become a key part of the product development process. The learning curve can be steep at times, both in terms of building knowledge and taking ownership of your work.

You'll often be balancing different priorities, working with a range of stakeholders and turning complex requirements into something clear and actionable for the development team.

Essential and desirable capabilities

To be successful in this role, you must have/ be:

• Experience in a Product, Business Analysis or Delivery role within a software or web-based product team.
• Working knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies, including backlog management and user story creation.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Highly organised, with excellent planning, prioritisation and time-management skills.
• Enthusiasm to develop Product Owner expertise.

To be successful in this role, it would be great if you have:

• Experience within the insurance sector.
• Familiarity with Agile product delivery tools, such as Jira.
• Experience using Power BI.
• Exposure to digital, data-led or information-based products and services.

We know it’s not a skill, but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the role’s location by the start of their employment.

Before you go....

Axco, part of Wilmington plc, make information accessible and help insurers, reinsurers, and brokers make the right decisions in employee benefits markets around the world. Our data colleagues are trusted partners who act with integrity to empower insurance-related decisions with worldwide information.

Join us and do Work That Means Something

At Wilmington plc, we help global customers to do the right business in the right way - providing trusted data, insights, and education to navigate the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) landscape.

When you join us, you’ll not only make a real difference for our customers, you’ll also enjoy flexibility through hybrid working and benefit from a wide range of learning, career, and development opportunities.

Whether you're just starting out, returning to work after a break, or looking to take your next step, you’ll be doing work with meaning.

Join us and make a real difference. Click on “ APPLY ” today!

The Legal Bit!

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

*Please note that this role may remain advertised until an offer of employment has been made.

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