PRODUCT OWNER

An organisation with a strong vision, mission and goal; we're all about living health confident. Product Owner Full time, Permanent Up to £40,000 – plus various company benefits Worthing, West Sussex - Hybrid Join Sam and Kim, under the Guidance of our Chief Marketing Officer; Craig and become an intrinsic member of our Product Delivery team here at Bluecrest. Although you’ll be joining a small team of 3 Product Owners (including you!), you’ll find yourself part of a much larger team working alongside our Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Tech Leads, Product Designers and other members of the wider team to maximise product value and ensure that development aligns with our business goals and user needs. Externally, we pride ourselves on being a flexible team that manages the workload without compromising on quality. Internally, we are an enthusiastic group that values collaboration, individuality, and open communication. We believe in the power of diverse ideas, strong creativity and having fun while achieving our goals. As the newest member of the Product Delivery team, we’d like you to bring in a strong technical knowledge to compliment the current structure of our team. If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact that brings about real change, then we’re ready to bring you on board. What we can offer you in return?* •Four free Health Assessments per year, which can be used by yourself, family or friends •A further 50% off any additional testing •23 days annual leave, rising to 25 days after 1 year, and rising an extra day each year up to 28 days – plus bank holidays on top! •Sophos@Home protection •EAP Scheme •Company sick pay scheme •Enhanced family leave •Life Insurance •Employee referral bonus scheme of up to £1,000 •Matched company pension (up to 5% or up to capped amount) •Cycle to Work Scheme •Employee Charity Sponsorship Scheme •Discounted Gym Membership •Home office allowance – yearly allowance of £130 to make working from home more comfortable! *After qualifying period & subject to terms and conditions and/or eligibility. What you’ll be doing day-to-day •Contribute to the Product/Project Vision ensuring alignment to Bluecrest’s strategic priorities and alignment of the Product/Project Roadmap •Stakeholder management developing strong relationships and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. Clearly define each phase of delivery and communicate milestones, achievements, risks and timelines •Manage the Product Backlog taking a value led approach, ensuring requirements are clearly articulated to agreed standards and hierarchy •Take the lead role in owning and maintaining a healthy product including incident management and continuous quality improvement •Demonstrate excellent facilitation skills, taking part in discovery and definition workshops obtaining product requirements through various methods such as user journeys, epics and user stories, personas, story workshops, story mapping and aligning stakeholders for demos and UAT •Maintain Release Plans in line with agreed priorities, ensuring relevant delivery commitment insight is provided to all necessary stakeholders/customers •Management of change providing a clear view of impact to the Product Backlog and Roadmaps, ensuring all stakeholder/customer expectations are effectively managed •Identify and actively manage cross team dependencies through the agreed planning horizons and throughout delivery •Working with the team, ensure risks are identified, clearly articulated, actively managed and visible to key stakeholders/customers •Actively balance the demand on the delivery team ensuring appropriate capacity is allocated to both new feature development, lifecycle management and incident resolution •Take a lead role in Sprint Planning ensuring the sprint goal is clearly articulated and aligned to deliver agreed stakeholder/customer value •Take a lead role in Sprint Review to validate the outcome of the sprint and provide demonstration of the value delivered to stakeholders/customers •Play an active role in Retrospectives contributing to lessons learnt and taking action to continuously improve •Provide sprint backlog item sign off to ensure outcome meets agreed success criteria prior to release •Communication of value delivered through effective Release Notes to stakeholders/customers •Demonstrate growing domain knowledge enabling empowered decision making on behalf of the product stakeholders / customers •Actively contribute to the development of Bluecrest’s Ways of Working providing insight from a Product Owner perspective •Take the lead in your learning and development always seeking news ways to improve and develop in the role What we’re looking for in a Product Owner •Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role (Systems Analyst/Process Analyst/Requirements Engineer, etc) •Demonstrate an analytical and solutions-orientated mindset with a natural ability to prioritise, problem solve, adapt to fast paced/changing environments •Strong technical knowledge •Be a natural leader, with the ability to ask the right questions and delve deeper into the trickier ones •Experience of designing and delivering solutions that have quantifiable efficiencies for business growth •Prior experience working with business stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to communicate across all levels both verbally and in writing •Excellent documentation and organisational skills The next steps… So, if you think you’ve got some exceptional skills to as part of our Product Delivery team and Bluecrest feels like a place where you can belong, we’d love to learn more about you. If your application is successful, the next steps will be a call from a member of our recruitment team to have the chance to get to know each other even better! Equal Opportunities Bluecrest Wellness is a proud promoter of the Equality Act 2010. We believe in fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting diversity in our employment practices. We do not discriminate in employment based on race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, disability, age, marital status, medical history, parental status or genetic information. We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and organisational needs. Our mission at Bluecrest is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate difference and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work. Other Info The post you are applying for is exempt from the provision of Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) Orders 1975 and 2001 and therefore all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as ‘spent’, must be declared. We kindly ask recruitment agencies to refrain from contacting us. Any personal information you share with us will be treated in line with our company Privacy Policy. At present we are unable to provide sponsorship of Visa’s for our vacancies