Product Owner - Health Screening Platform

Job Description

NB: This role is remote or hybrid depending on your location. In either case, this role expects the successful candidate to travel to our offices and to customer sites upon request.

Role Overview 

• Our Health Screening Platform is a key pillar to achieve NEC Health’s growth ambitions. We are seeking an experienced product owner who is excited by improving the lives of patients and driving value-based care. You will combine a strong delivery focus with a bias for action by releasing iterative, quality value as often as possible to your customers and users. You will clearly demonstrate you are a safe pair of hands to get the job done through challenging times, be the subject matter expert of your product, and a true leader who aligns your wider product team.  

Accountabilities 

Strategy:

• Iterative value delivery . Break down initiatives into small, frequently releasable increments of value - assessing outcomes with customers and stakeholders throughout delivery. 

• Voice of the customer . Build trusted customer/user relationships and represent customer needs and preferences within the wider product team. 

• User‑centred design . Apply design‑thinking to map end‑to‑end user, patient and data journeys - working with design teams to improve usability and experience. Organise and lead customer & user engagement/feedback sessions (individual and group). 

• Market & competitor awareness. Maintain a strong understanding of your domain, market trends and competitors to inform prioritisation and product decisions. 

• Measuring success. Define and track product key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned to your business unit’s objectives and key results (OKRs), sourcing data where gaps exist. 

• Third‑party collaboration. Work with technical teams to assess third‑party solutions, ensuring value for money and strategic fit. 

Operations & Communication: 

• Product backlog ownership. Own and manage/prioritise the product backlog, balancing system health, delivery commitments and incremental value – able to build clear narratives explaining your decisions that gain buy-in. You will maintain a minimal amount of ‘ready’ work within your backlog to keep your team forever busy. 

• Demand management & requirements gathering/documentation.  Own the new demand funnel into your team, as well as the prioritisation of new working coming into your team. Be accountable for the quality and sign off requirements & user story documentation – collaborating with the wider product team to define and meet acceptance criteria and ‘ready’/‘done’ standards. 

• Quality products, on time.  Accountable for value delivered to customers. Work with technical leads to ensure scalable, quality, interoperable solutions are delivered on time, whilst coordinating releases and associated communications. 

• Release coordination. Coordinate releases and associated communications to ensure clarity and readiness for customers and stakeholders. 

• Stakeholder/customer management . Build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders/customers – including using proactive, clear, and personalised communication. 

• Team ways of working. Work with development leaders to maintain effective team RACI and strive to continuously improve delivery predictability, quality, efficiency and effectiveness. 

• Product collateral. Create and maintain all product collateral necessary to enable comms, sales, marketing and the implementation teams to be successful. 

Sales and commercial acumen:

• Product ROI.  Track and strive to forever improve the return on investment of your product team - working closely with finance and sales to track current and projected revenues and costs. 

• Sales enablement.  Act as product SME and advocate, supporting sales with collateral, training and provide direct support in prospect pitches when required. 

• Go‑to‑market support.  Support go‑to‑market execution for new features and products, acting as product SME and customer advocate. 

• Business cases. Support the creation of new business cases associated with your product – providing evidence of costings, user-analytics, and platform insights. 

Soft skills and personal characteristics: 

• Exceptional communicator and presenter (written, in person, and online) 

• Self-starter and autonomous worker 

• User / customer obsessed 

• Problem solver / option creator 

• Exceptional time management and organisational skills 

• Adaptable and resilient to an ever-changing landscape 

Advantageous experience 

• Proven SaaS product owner with demonstrable delivery of customer value. 

• Delivering AI/data products. 

• Using AI to improve your efficiency and working with an AI enabled development team. 

• Experience working across agile, scaled agile and waterfall delivery. 

• Healthcare sector. 

• Familiarity with product tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jira, Aha!). 

• Scaled a product internationally. 

Qualifications

No particular qualifications are mandatory, although degree level+ or equivalent certifications in a product, project management, business or technical related discipline would be advantageous.

Additional Information

We are proud of the benefits we offer employees of NEC Software Solutions 

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/ sell 
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A fantastic selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
• We are an employer who cares, we have a invaluable employee assistance programme which can help in every area of your life
• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.

All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting and reference checks. This role will require UK Security Clearance.

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process, please feel free to share these with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates.

Who We Are:

We’re NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad, our software is helping to dispatch ambulances, support families, keep trains on the move, locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies.

Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services.

We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference.

We’d love your help. And we’ll support you all the way.