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Agile Product Owner

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 2 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Do you get a kick out of making things happen and seeing things through? Are you eager to work in an agile environment? Do you have strong stakeholder management skills?

If your answer is 'yes' to all of these, then we'd love to hear from you.

Want to know a little about us?

Hitachi Capital UK is a leading financial services company with over 35 years' experience providing innovative finance solutions to consumers and businesses across a diverse range of sectors. We are a fast paced, innovative and progressive organisation with dynamic growth plans for the future. We have an autonomous, customer centric and supportive culture that can offer you a long term career where you are recognised and rewarded for your contribution.

What does the role involve?

We have an exciting opportunity for an Agile Product Owner to join our Change function in Leeds on a fixed term contract up to 12 months. In this role, you will facilitate change within the Consumer Finance Division (HCCF) by providing expertise on a particular service or product. Working on high profile projects, you'll determine how best to change the product to deliver the strategy and requirements as defined and agreed. As a trusted advisor, you will advocate business change with stakeholders and will develop their understanding of how effective change management can benefit the organisation and support the delivery of business value. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in our major strategic drivers by adding value and innovation to our services and products in HCCF.

Some of your key duties will include:

  • Develop and maintain the roadmap planner for the service, validating that the tactics being developed support the and will deliver the overarching HCCF tactics, strategy, and objectives
  • Acting as the overarching SME for a product, service or channel by understanding the interplay between the process, people, and systems used to offer the product / service
  • Working with other Agile Product Owners to define the business architecture, ensuring that there is a clear understanding of how the people, process, and systems interact across the business to deliver our various services

What are we looking for?

We're looking for a strong communicator, facilitator and advocate for product management and business change. You'll be comfortable working in an agile environment and will have the skills to work collaboratively with agile IT Delivery teams. In addition, we're looking for the following skills and experience:

  • Strong business analysis skills - able to gather requirements, and develop high level business solutions
  • Strong communication skills to help the squad understand and work to the vision, providing day to day guidance to ensure successful delivery of change
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with good engagement, influencing and negotiation skills
  • A technical background in working with web services and APIs would be beneficial

Hitachi Capital (UK) PLC is a leading financial services company with over 30 years’ experience providing innovative finance solutions that help consumers and businesses to grow and prosper.

Finance & Banking
Staines-upon-Thames
1,200 employees