Product Owner - Fixed Term Contract

The salary for this role is £54,000. This role is being offered on a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract.

Are you an experienced Product Owner who can balance user needs, business priorities, and service delivery within a fast-paced environment? Do you enjoy working across multi-disciplinary teams to shape end-to-end services, manage backlogs, and drive continuous improvement? Can you lead stakeholder engagement, define service roadmaps, and deliver data-driven products and services within complex multi-stakeholder environments? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control, whilst enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people, who share in our values.

As a Product Owner at LI, you will be responsible for defining and maintaining a cohesive scope for service delivery within the wider Livestock Information Service (LIS) programme. You will lead the definition and agreement of end-to-end service scope, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and user needs. In addition, you will develop and maintain the service blueprint and roadmap, ensuring that epics, features, and user stories are clearly defined, prioritised, and approved across all services, products, and processes. You will also be accountable for establishing and maintaining a comprehensive release plan to support the successful and timely delivery of all components.

Responsibilities

• Defining the vision and scope of future services, ensuring alignment with user needs and improvements to traceability quality.
• Developing end-to-end customer journeys, outlining how different user groups will interact with the multi-species system.
• Translating service propositions into clear personas, user needs, and user stories to support design and delivery.
• Creating and maintaining a service blueprint, release roadmap, and a single prioritised backlog of work.
• Ensuring alignment of the service blueprint with the overarching LI blueprint, working collaboratively with other Product Owners and the COO.
• Identifying and defining all third-party touchpoints, ensuring effective integration across service components.
• Driving efficiency improvements within the target service model.
• Collaborating closely with technical and data teams to define and deliver service dependencies.
• Working with other service teams to ensure seamless delivery within a wider multi-species ecosystem.
• Partnering with test and transition teams to ensure well-planned and successfully executed releases.
• Supporting the wider team in identifying and managing change, risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and dependencies.

You may be required to undertake other duties assigned by your line manager as appropriate.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a Product Owner role, ideally within a start-up or fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrable experience designing and implementing changes in complex, multi-user and multi-stakeholder environments with competing priorities.
• Strong track record of delivering data-driven services focused on user needs and service quality.
• Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams across the full product lifecycle, from discovery through to live service.
• Ability to think creatively and translate user needs into end-to-end service design.
• Self-motivated with strong organisational and structured thinking skills, able to provide clarity and direction in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Excellent project management capabilities, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Strong interpersonal, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills, with experience operating in complex or politically sensitive environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and align a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience designing end-to-end service blueprints, developing roadmaps, and managing prioritised backlogs.

Benefits

• A fully remote and flexible working set up.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to a maximum of 30 days (plus Bank Holidays).
• 1 Privilege Day.
• 4 x annual salary Life Assurance.
• Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General.
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies.
• Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities.
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
• A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued.

Application and Interview Process

To apply for this role, you will need to submit a CV and answer some pre-screening questions. The interview and assessment process for this role will involve a telephone interview with our Talent Team, followed by a first stage and a final stage interview. Interviews will be conducted either remotely via MS Teams or face to face.

If we need to make a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, please contact us as soon as possible by emailing talent@livestockinformation.org.uk before the closing date to discuss your needs. The closing date for this role is 4pm on Wednesday, 27th May. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. Please note that we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Values

We approach our work with TACT; we are Transparent, Accountable, Committed and we work as a Team. We are transparent together, embracing honesty and building trust. We are accountable to the industry and strive for the best possible solutions for the communities we serve. We drive change with passion, commitment and enthusiasm to deliver a great service to the livestock industry. We work kindly and cohesively which allows us to support each other in our personal and strategic goals.

At Livestock Information Ltd, we have a zero-tolerance approach to harassment, abuse, discrimination, or bullying during our recruitment process. Any such behaviour may result in a candidate being withdrawn from consideration. We are committed to upholding our company values and ensuring a safe and respectful experience for all candidates and staff.

Diversity statement

At Livestock Information, we value diversity and believe that every individual brings different strengths. We understand that not everyone may possess every single skill outlined in this job description, but if you believe you have a solid skill set that enables you to excel in this position then we really encourage you to apply.

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in a fair and open manner or if you are dissatisfied with any of your interactions during the recruitment process and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact our Talent team via email: talent@livestockinformation.org.uk.