Product Owner - Health Screening Platform

This role is remote or hybrid depending on your location. In either case, this role expects the successful candidate to travel to our offices and to customer sites upon request.

Our Health Screening Platform is a key pillar to achieve NEC Health’s growth ambitions. We are seeking an experienced product owner who is excited by improving the lives of patients and driving value-based care. You will combine a strong delivery focus with a bias for action by releasing iterative, quality value as often as possible to your customers and users.

Apply design-thinking to map end-to-end user, patient and data journeys - working with design teams to improve usability and experience. Define and track product key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned to your business unit’s objectives and key results (OKRs), sourcing data where gaps exist.

• Own and manage/prioritise the product backlog, balancing system health, delivery commitments and incremental value – able to build clear narratives explaining your decisions that gain buy-in.
• Be accountable for the quality and sign off requirements & user story documentation – collaborating with the wider product team to define and meet acceptance criteria and ‘ready’/‘done’ standards.
• Work with technical leads to ensure scalable, quality, interoperable solutions are delivered on time, whilst coordinating releases and associated communications.
• Work with development leaders to maintain effective team RACI and strive to continuously improve delivery predictability, quality, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Create and maintain all product collateral necessary to enable comms, sales, marketing and the implementation teams to be successful.

Sales and commercial acumen:

• Track and strive to forever improve the return on investment of your product team - working closely with finance and sales to track current and projected revenues and costs.
• Act as product SME and advocate, supporting sales with collateral, training and provide direct support in prospect pitches when required.
• Exceptional communicator and presenter (written, in person, and online).
• Proven SaaS product owner with demonstrable delivery of customer value.
• Delivering AI/data products.
• Using AI to improve your efficiency and working with an AI enabled development team.
• Experience working across agile, scaled agile and waterfall delivery.
• Healthcare sector experience.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, Jira, Aha!.
• No particular qualifications are mandatory, although degree level+ or equivalent certifications in a product, project management, business or technical related discipline would be advantageous.

We are proud of the benefits we offer employees of NEC Software Solutions:

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost).
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell.
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost).
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%.
• A fantastic selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs.
• We are an employer who cares, we have an invaluable employee assistance programme which can help in every area of your life.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. This role will require UK Security Clearance.

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities. We’re NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad, our software is helping to dispatch ambulances, support families, keep trains on the move, locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies. Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services. We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. We’d love your help.