Remote Product Owner - 12-month contract in Derby

Location: Remote, UK

Reports to: Product Manager

Work schedule: Mon – Fri, 37.5 hours per week

Who are VitalHub? VitalHub aspire to accelerate the delivery of digital transformation at scale, supporting healthcare organisations internationally to improve how they capture and analyse data. This helps enhance patient flow and enables better coordination of care across planned and unplanned services, mental health, workforce, and compliance.

You must enjoy spending time in the details of a product and understand its problems to find innovative solutions. Most importantly, you must be able to lead a product backlog and plan and ensure their execution and success. You are the liaison between Product Management and Development.

Your Responsibilities:

• Manage and prioritize a product backlog that defines the strategic work to be completed.
• Gather, define and write up the product and services requirements; getting input from customers, prospects, partners, sales, development, external market trends and competitors.
• Produce Business Requirements Documents, Business Cases, Product Release Plans and other documents as required.
• Promote high standards and innovation in product changes and new features.
• Define the product release cadence with the Product Manager and ensure that releases are done properly, on time and on budget.
• Be hands-on in approach and help fill gaps as required for product success.
• Provide input on how resources should be allocated across product initiatives.
• Proactively identify risks, concerns, issues, and intervene as required to ensure that product releases remain on track.
• Provide release progress updates to Product Manager and/or stakeholders.
• Responsible for helping onboard new staff and providing them initial knowledge of the product.
• Work with all teams related to the product to follow VitalHub’s defined standards, best practices, and processes.
• Answer product-related questions from Sales, Business Development, Marketing and external Business Partner organizations.
• Ensure that professional services, sales, development and customer support have all the product information and understand product releases.
• Build solid client relationships prioritizing client satisfaction.
• Help with technical presentations and product demonstrations at customer briefings, industry conferences, and other public-speaking forums.
• Ensure that all product team members are happy, productive, and valued team members.

Essential Experience:

• Demonstrable experience as a Product Owner, Scrum Master or Business Analyst.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working across the full product development lifecycle and coordinating UAT phases with business users.
• Experience of writing requirements documentation/stories.
• Experience of working closely with developers and business users in a highly collaborative environment.
• Experience of working in agile development teams.
• Experience of using defect tracking and test management tools such as JIRA, Zephyr, confluence.
• Experience in requirements management.
• Ability to learn product configurations and train internal stakeholders or customers.

Nice to Haves:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent teamwork skills with proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Active listening skills and multi-tasking capability.
• Project Management experience or relevant qualifications.
• Technical product knowledge or domain expertise.
• Market research and competitive analysis skills.

Our Interview Process:

• Initial screening call with the Talent Team.
• Virtual Interview with the Product Manager – verbal and technical assessment.
• Virtual Interview with the Head of Product Management.