Product Owner

Competitive salary with an excellent bonus plan We offer two bonuses (personal performance paid quarterly and company performance paid annually) with private healthcare and dental cover and a generous pension scheme.

For over three decades our purpose hasn’t changed: we are here to make a positive difference to the lives of all. Through the exceptional products, services and value we offer, we are proud of how far we’ve come as a business, now we want to see you grow with us.

Team purpose:

The award-winning Global Data team is transforming Specsavers into a data-driven business. Our vision is to establish a data culture within the company to empower the wider data community to deliver tangible value from data. We deliver high quality data products and enable the community through self-service, knowledge sharing and experience to become vital to the company’s success.

Click here for more info about the Global Data team.

Your purpose:

Lead a POD accountable for delivering data products in a way that aligns to the goals of the Data Exec Forum and our data transformation strategy

Your role

• Champion agile working, delivering incremental value quickly and iterating based on user feedback.
• Build close relationships with stakeholders and manage expectations.
• Measure and report on product performance and adoption, ensuring feedback is incorporated into product development.
• Be the voice of the customer; ensure that the user needs for our products are understood and met so that we are delivering clear value.

What you’ll bring

• Product Management/Owner experience, with proven ability of leading teams to deliver complex software in an agile environment.
• Proven ability to work in a decentralized environment running a cross functional delivery group with dependencies on multiple, diverse functions within the business eg. IT, marketing, finance, supply chain.
• Brilliant communicator, able to confidently engage and inspire stakeholders and colleagues at all levels to generate commitment to goals and create engagement.
• Ability to distil complex ideas into concise written and verbal descriptions that are easily understood by both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Skilled at stakeholder management, with the ability to manage a wide range of global stakeholders with varying objectives. You must be able to find resolutions, build trust and ask appropriate/ challenging questions to get to the heart of the business requirements and drive tangible benefits.

Happy to talk flexible working!

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