Product Owner Ftc

Are you a Product Owner with the ability to deliver value for our clients? Could you be responsible for your own product backlog? As a Product Owner, you will work within an Agile Scrum team and get to know our clients’ roles, needs, pressures and measures of success, to identify how creative products can help them to get their work done.

If having a positive culture matters to you, as a member of the Keoghs IT department, you will engage with a great team who love innovative technologies. We have a fast-growing working environment, where we empower and trust our team to work independently whilst also pulling together to achieve our objectives.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Key Accountabilities
You will be a key decision maker, working closely with the senior leaders and key team members to craft and deliver stories that help us to achieve our aims and objectives.
You will own your own backlog, agree priorities, and ensure that the backlog is ordered correctly.
You will take an active role in assisting the senior leaders with the product/service life cycle - involved in planning, process design, deployment, and benefits realization.
You will work closely with key team members to understand required changes, facilitate communication between the team and the other interested parties and ensure the team is directed to work on the most cost-effective tasks.
Create user stories to breakdown features and epics into end-to-end functionality
Create user story acceptance criteria using the Given-When-Then Gherkin format
Work with the team to develop UI/UX wireframes and prototypes, ensuring a user centred design approach
Working Hours
35 hours per week
Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm with 1 unpaid hour for lunch.
Primary location for this role is home working

**Experience, Skills and Qualifications**
- Essential Skills and Attributes:
You will be a self-starter with a strong work ethic that can work with limited supervision.
You should have a strong client focus and consistent track record of delivering to user needs
You will need to be a skilled problem solver; a key requirement for this role is being able to deconstruct problems into constituent parts to come to the best solution.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal are also a requirement.
Being focused and accurate, you will need to have a data driven approach to feature development
You should have experience of user centred design and have a keen interest in UI design and user experience
You will have an open and expansive approach, willing and able to interact internally and externally and at all levels within the company.
You will show a highly committed attitude.

How we will support you:
We are flexible with working hours and will work around your needs where we can
This role is mostly remote working. All we ask is that you are willing to come into our office in Bolton or a location in the surrounding area on an occasional basis, a handful of times a year.
We will provide you with support from our senior leadership team to learn and improve our working practices
We will provide you with a coach to support you with your professional development plan
You will find that your colleagues are down-to-earth and make for good team-mates.
Values
Our culture is focussed on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our five values are at the heart of everything we do;

Keoghs values
We listen, are down to earth and supportive
We work together towards a common goal
We’re friendly with a can-do attitude
We care about our clients
We evolve

**Contract Type**
- Fixed Term

**Area**
- IT

**Sub Area**
- Operational Products

**Office**
- from home

**Closing Date**
- 12 Jul 2023