Junior Product Owner

1 week ago


South Africa Ascent People Ltd Full time

Junior Product Owner Location:
North West

Industry:

IT

Salary:
£ £50000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits

Posted: 13/02/2024

Description
Junior Product Owner, Business Analyst, Hybrid working.
Are you a Business Analyst looking to move into a Product Owner role?
My client is looking for a Junior Product Owner OR an experienced Business Analyst (BA) who is looking to further their career as a Product Owner within an
IT/Telecoms environment
As a Junior Product Owner, you will be involved in;

Functional designs via story elaboration and managing the detailed implementation as part of the Global product portfolio of the stories assigned by Product Management as part of the product roadmap.

Detailed implementation following an agile model that will involve working closely, day-to-day with a team of principally offshore development engineers providing them with functional direction, lightweight tracking of progress and ensuring that there are no misunderstandings in their delivery assumptions.

You will work closely with Product Management in customer discussions to define and present product functionality.

The role also contributes to the functional analysis of Level 3 support issues in the assigned part of the product portfolio when they are logged by customers or Professional Services teams and implements bug fixes alongside the product roadmap driven stories where necessary.

Experience needed for the Junior Product Owner role includes;

  • 1 to 2 years experience as a Product Owner OR an experienced Business Analyst who is keen to move into a Product Owner role.
  • Ideally some knowledge of telecoms or telecoms software
  • Strategic mindedness with a view on future strategy, balanced with tactical delivery
  • Ability to proactively make justified decisions after considering, multiple, potentially conflicting, inputs
  • Ability to interpret code as a functional block
  • Ability to collaborate on a daily basis with an offshore team
  • Ability to prioritise work in a coherent and logical manner
  • Capable of slicing functional units into suitable delivery units
  • Capable of both short term and long term delivery management
  • Good understanding of data modelling
  • Understanding of non-functional requirements gained by working with customers
  • Highly product user focused with a solution orientated mind-set
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills.
  • Hard working, dedicated, tenacious, self-motivated and quality minded
  • Meticulous, structured with excellent attention to detail
  • Adaptable, can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines whilst retaining control
  • Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating
  • Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources – a strong negotiator
  • Strong interpersonal skills with a professional attitude
  • Commercially aware and politically astute
  • Extensive experience of the software lifecycle, including customer facing experience
  • Understanding of agile delivery approaches and an open mind to how they are best used to drive delivery
  • Experience of liaising with external customers and internal stakeholders

This an excellent opportunity for someone who is an experienced Business Analyst to train up to be a Product Owner in an exciting and growing company where you will have plenty of opportunities to progress your career and learn lots of new skills.

This is a hybrid role where you will asked to work in the office 1 or 2 days a week and the rest at home.

If you are interested in this role please send your CV for immediate consideration.

Ascent People is acting as an employment agency for this role and applicants from all ages and backgrounds will be considered.



Recruiter:

Nadine Bramley Phone:

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