- Pay Rate:
Up to £660 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
- Hours per Week:
37
Anticipated 6 months
- London
Interim Applications Products Owner -Hybrid Working – PSR 1JP00066629
Pay Rate: Up to £660 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
Location: Hybrid – London, Milton Keynes, or East Kilbride 2 days per week.
JOB INFO:
The Applications Product Owner is a role within the Product Management function within IDD, reporting to the Head of Digital Workplace Products for the Applications Product portfolio which they own.
You will be responsible for the adherence to all appropriate policies and processes and the quality of the products and services within the Applications Product portfolio.
The Applications Product Owner will have oversight of one or more Product Teams working with multi-disciplinary business areas and stakeholders.
Security Clearance: Existing security clearance is not a prerequisite but will always help.
What you’ll do:
- Oversight of direct reports and line management duties throughout their team.
- Managing team prioritisation and utilisation.
- Leading recruitment within the Applications Product Teams.
- Demonstrating role model values of diversity and inclusion, leadership and embracing change within the team, engaging and maintaining the commitment of staff
- Developing a supporting environment for staff, promoting a culture of constructive feedback, learning, development and flexible working
- Building an open and collaborative culture within the Applications Product Teams.
Who you are:
- Overseeing the road-map for the Applications Product portfolio, ensuring alignment to the long-term visions and objectives of the Head of Infrastructure Products as well as the needs of the business.
- Overseeing the overall quality of the Applications products and services, including continuous service improvement, ensuring that they meet the needs and expectations of the wider business.
- Ensure that Application Products comply with necessary regulations including GDPR and provide adequate controls to mitigate security risks.
- Providing leadership and direction to Application Product Teams, supporting the handling of major operational issues, overseeing programme management activities to ensure alignment to the agreed SLAs/OLAs and the necessary business and IT Service Management processes.
- Working with other Product Owners as well as engineering leads and network engineers.
- Representing Application Product Teams at key governance forums, reporting on progress and operational issues, escalating to the Head of Digital Workplace Products as appropriate.
- Owning the budget and allocation of funding for the Application Product portfolio based on priorities set by the Head of Digital Workplace Products, inputting into agile business cases as needed.
- Endorsing and communicating the benefits and performance of the products and services, working with Senior Service Partners to ensure continuous alignment to business needs.
- Supporting Product Teams through SME insight as a recognised expert, remaining abreast of industry best practice and cascading ways of working for Agile and Lean practices, supporting and challenging Application Product Teams to use the right approaches within their work.
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- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Qualifications and experience relevant to the job role – please give full details within your CV document
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for
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