Lead Product Owner

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Lead Product Owner
Competitive salary
Car allowance
Healthcare
Annual bonus potential
Company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Generous annual leave offering

Permanent, Full time

Royal Mail Farringdon

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About the role

We are looking for a Lead Product Owner to have end-to-end accountability for delivery across technology products and where needed, across Business units. This will be achieved by managing the change delivery process, ensuring that selected internal and partner teams deliver; acquiring & utilising the necessary resources & skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality. This role will also manage business product owners and other stakeholders, to ensure overall delivery of new technical products and features.

About You

You will have proven experience across enterprise product delivery with excellent knowledge of the best engineering practices in a commercial environment. Ideally you should have experience in most of the following areas:
Experience of delivering Integration (API, Event Streaming, File Transfer and Messaging) and Infrastructure (Azure and UNIX)projects in a multi-supplier environment
IBM and Azure experience Demonstrable experience of working in an agile environment and capable of deploying and working within the agile principles and methodologies
Understanding of Infrastructure as a Service, Containerisation etc and how it is applied to Integration patterns
Operates within agreed cost/time/quality parameters, Has sufficient credibility and gravitas, and ability to work with and relate to a highly demanding internal client base and complex external supplier base
Proven track record of managing multiple projects and managing onshore and off0shore teams
Stakeholder and project lifecycle (end to end) experience is required
Ideal candidate should be a self starter and be able to stand by their convictions within decision making.
Appreciation of how all the architecture, policies and governance are applied to delivery of the project
Excellent people management skills, able to manage upwards and influence in a complex environment
Proven experience of empowering, enabling, supporting and motivating product teams
Experience of going through the transformation from Waterfall to Agile delivery methodologies

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean 'your' interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.

We don't expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: internationaldistributionsservices/en/about-us/

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As part of the online application process you will be asked to confirm that you meet the minimum eligibility criteria. Before completing your application, you should read the criteria below in order to check that it is appropriate for you . You will also need to seek approval from your line manager and may need additional HR approval in place before progressing.
Details of the internal application eligibility criteria can be found here

Terms of appointment are detailed within the advert and voluntary transfer terms will apply (unless stated otherwise).

You will have proven experience across enterprise product delivery with excellent knowledge of the best engineering practices in a commercial environment. Ideally you should have experience in most of the following areas:
Experience of delivering Integration (API, Event Streaming, File Transfer and Messaging) and Infrastructure (Azure and UNIX)projects in a multi-supplier environment
IBM and Azure experience Demonstrable experience of working in an agile environment and capable of deploying and working within the agile principles and methodologies
Understanding of Infrastructure as a Service, Containerisation etc and how it is applied to Integration patterns
Operates within agreed cost/time/quality parameters, Has sufficient credibility and gravitas, and ability to work with and relate to a highly demanding internal client base and complex external supplier base
Proven track record of managing multiple projects and managing onshore and off0shore teams
Stakeholder and project lifecycle (end to end) experience is required
Ideal candidate should be a self starter and be able to stand by their convictions within decision making.
Appreciation of how all the architecture, policies and governance are applied to delivery of the project
Excellent people management skills, able to manage upwards and influence in a complex environment
Proven experience of empowering, enabling, supporting and motivating product teams
Experience of going through the transformation from Waterfall to Agile delivery methodologies

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean 'your' interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.

We don't expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

Competitive salary
Car allowance
Healthcare
Annual bonus potential
Company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Generous annual leave offering

Permanent, Full time