Product Owner in Manchester

Moorepay is transforming. We are a trusted leader in UK Payroll and HR solutions, but we aren’t resting on our history. We are embarking on a major digital transformation to redefine how businesses manage their most important asset: their people.

We are seeking a Product Owner as one of the first key hires. You will be part of the Product Team and will be pivotal to growing our products and services in line with our strategic goals. You will work alongside the wider product team, UI/UX designers, engineers and business stakeholders to identify, scope, define and deliver effective and innovative capabilities across our industry leading products.

You will be curious, proactive and passionate using a data-led approach to customer-centric roadmaps. You will gain deep insights into customer pain points and challenges, informing every step of your product evolution, translating this to the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of your products’ existence.

You will think beyond the functions and features of your product, working with the wider portfolio to deliver a whole experience that not only solves your customers’ challenges but exceeds their expectations, owning and driving the commercial success as a result.

This role would suit a strong Payroll Product Owner or a seasoned payroll professional looking to move into a more technical role where they can grow their career in an exciting SaaS business. This is a full time, permanent role working on a hybrid basis with 3 days per week in Manchester.

Core responsibilities:

• Managing the Product Backlog: Creating, prioritizing, and maintaining the product backlog, ensuring that it reflects the most valuable features and tasks.
• Voice of the customer: Being the voice of the customer, clearly understanding the challenges faced and being able to articulate them to other stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements, provide updates, and manage expectations throughout the development process.
• User Story Development: Writing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure they are clearly defined and actionable for the development team.
• Prioritization: Making decisions about the priority of features and tasks based on business value, user needs, and technical considerations.
• Sprint Ceremonies: Participating in sprint ceremonies to help the team understand the priorities and goals for each sprint.
• Review and Feedback: Reviewing completed work throughout the sprint cycle and providing feedback to ensure the product meets the desired quality and functionality.
• Documentation: Clearly documenting new features and enhancements to ensure business readiness ahead of all releases.
• Sprint Planning: Planning and coordinating sprints, including setting sprint goals and monitoring velocity.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously evaluating the product and development process, seeking opportunities for improvement and innovation.

Skills & experience:

• Previous experience in a BA or Product Owner/Manager role or payroll management experience.
• Self-starter, highly motivated and organised individual who takes end to end responsibility for the completion of required work.
• Ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Passionate about solving business and customer needs.
• Structured approach to decision making using data wherever possible to support decisions.
• Ability to build strong relationships.
• Able to inspire and motivate the development team to achieve goals.
• Possess a growth mindset, challenging team members to move to best practice and being open to learning from others.
• Experience of working with Azure DevOps and on integration projects would be highly desirable.

Benefits & culture:

Part of the Zellis Group, Moorepay is a team of over 500 friendly professionals across four offices in Swinton (Manchester), Sheffield, Birmingham and Kochi (India). We’re passionate about making Moorepay a fantastic place to work for every single one of our colleagues. The average length of service at Moorepay is 12 years, which speaks for itself!

To help make Moorepay such a great place to work, we focus on three things in our company culture: mental health support, maintaining a healthy work/life balance, and equal opportunities and inclusion for all.

Here’s what you’ll gain if you join our team:

• A career packed with opportunity, in a stable and growing company.
• A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
• 25 days annual leave, with the opportunity to buy more. You’ll even get your birthday off as well!
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension with up to 8.5% employer contributions.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.