Senior Product Owner in Leeds

Fixed Term Contract – cover maternity leave.

Senior Product Owner role at Allianz Personal.

Location

Flexible location: Bournemouth, Bristol, Leeds, Guildford, London, Manchester.

Salary

Circa £65,000 per year, based on relevant experience, skills and location.

• Key Accountabilities
• Stakeholder Management
• Understand the product/application and apply business knowledge, managing stakeholder understanding of its functionality.
• Manage multiple products/applications across multiple customer journeys.
• Measure delivered value against business KPIs and ensure business understands responsibilities in delivering change.
• Maintain awareness of dependencies on other ARTs to deliver valuable change to stakeholders.
• Regularly demo Scrum team progress with support from the team.
• Communicate closely with the Development Team and manage cross‑team changes with other Product Managers.
• Backlog Maintenance
• Act as the customer proxy to define and prioritise stories in the team backlog.
• Ensure the backlog is appropriately prioritised and refined ahead of sprint planning.
• Make decisions on user story acceptance, rejection and sprint placement, mindful of MVP value.
• Align backlog with wider portfolios and collaborate with other Product Owners.
• Scrum Team Engagement
• Influence and provide direction to the Scrum team for backlog refinement and user story writing.
• Confirm the definition of “Done” aligns with expectations.
• Ensure relevant SMEs/Knowledge Management Experts are available for sprints.
• Align with fellow Product Owners, Business Owners and Programme Leads on design, build and test cycles.
• Decision Making
• Sign off on all development work, ensuring quality and fit for purpose.
• Provide quick, concise decisions to enable team pivots.
• Maintain a well‑defined backlog of future change items for future sprint planning.
• Escalation
• Escalate and own deviations, blockers, dependencies to keep delivery on track.
• Coaching and Support Management
• Support junior Product Owners as required.

Essential Skills

• Previous experience as a Product Owner with Agile/Project change background.
• Proven track record of delivering data‑driven solutions and change through technology.
• Experience launching and refining new products and creating launch plans.
• Leadership of cross‑functional teams, setting priorities and reviewing deliverables.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management, autonomous decision‑making.
• Customer‑first mindset.
• Good technical understanding of current systems, applications and business processes.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodology and experience with Scrum or Kanban.
• Deep business knowledge within Mid‑Corporate vision.
• Experience working in insurance or financial services.

Desirable Skills

• Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage.

Benefits

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options.
• Hybrid working.
• Annual performance‑related bonus.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Development days.
• Discount up to 50% on insurance products.
• Retail discounts.
• Volunteering days.
• Inclusive Support & Accessibility

Allianz is a Disability Confident employer and welcomes applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates, offering tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

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