Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Lighthorne, Warwick (CV35), CV35 0RR
Summary: The Electrification Services Product Owner at Expleo will lead initiatives in EV charging and connected energy ecosystems for a major automotive client. This hybrid role focuses on managing product backlogs, coordinating delivery across teams, and driving customer-centric innovation. The position is contract-based until March 2027, with potential extensions, and requires a strong understanding of the public charging ecosystem and digital operations. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in the EV sector and excellent stakeholder management skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring it is prioritised and aligned to stakeholder needs
- Coordinate delivery across Portfolio Epics in line with quarterly objectives
- Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and delivery teams
- Align planning across delivery timelines, dependencies, and milestones
- Manage competing priorities, balancing short-term delivery and long-term strategy
- Drive governance cadence including QBR/BRP ceremonies and sprint showcases
- Collaborate across domains to ensure dependencies are identified and synergies realised
- Enable effective stakeholder communication across technical, commercial, and operational functions
Key Skills:
- Proven experience in EV charging, mobility services, or digital operations, ideally within an eMSP, CPO, or automotive environment
- Strong understanding of the Public Charging eco-system, roaming hubs and backend integration with OEM systems
- Strong understanding of the JLR go-to-market and operational landscape (markets, CRC, engineering operations)
- Experience managing third-party service providers and technical vendors in a high-availability digital service environment
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret operational data and drive performance improvements
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience working across technical and commercial teams
- Familiarity with customer-facing digital platforms (apps, portals) and their operational dependencies
- Knowledge of relevant compliance areas such as GDPR, and EV roaming regulations (AFIR)
- Customer first mindset
- Good understanding of energy sector, including competitor and market awareness
- Project management, leadership and planning skills are essential, along with good teamwork and excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with longer term strategic view
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Lighthorne
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Expleo is recruiting for an experienced Electrification Services Product Owner to join a leading automotive customer within the Seamless & Smart Energy (S&SE) programme. This role sits at the forefront of EV charging, mobility services, and connected energy ecosystems, helping to shape the customer journey in an electrified future.?? Warwickshire (Hybrid) ?? Contract until March 2027 (with extensions likely) ?? £333.88 per day (Umbrella)
The Role
As the Electrification Services Product Owner, you will be responsible for driving the delivery of value across a portfolio of electrification and digital service initiatives. You will coordinate Portfolio Epics, aligning delivery with quarterly business ambitions, while collaborating across engineering, commercial, and operational teams. This is a highly visible role with a strong focus on public charging ecosystems, digital services, and customer-centric innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring it is prioritised and aligned to stakeholder needs
- Coordinate delivery across Portfolio Epics in line with quarterly objectives
- Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and delivery teams
- Align planning across delivery timelines, dependencies, and milestones
- Manage competing priorities, balancing short-term delivery and long-term strategy
- Drive governance cadence including QBR/BRP ceremonies and sprint showcases
- Collaborate across domains to ensure dependencies are identified and synergies realised
- Enable effective stakeholder communication across technical, commercial, and operational functions
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in EV charging, mobility services, or digital operations, ideally within an eMSP, CPO, or automotive environment.
- Strong understanding of the Public Charging eco-system, roaming hubs and backend integration with OEM systems.
- Strong understanding of the JLR go-to-market and operational landscape (markets, CRC, engineering operations)
- Experience managing third-party service providers and technical vendors in a high-availability digital service environment.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret operational data and drive performance improvements.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience working across technical and commercial teams.
- Familiarity with customer-facing digital platforms (apps, portals) and their operational dependencies.
- Knowledge of relevant compliance areas such as GDPR, and EV roaming regulations (AFIR).
- Customer first mindset
- Good understanding of energy sector, including competitor and market awareness
- Project management, leadership and planning skills are essential, along with good teamwork and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strategic thinking is also essential.
- Able to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with longer term strategic view.
Desirable Skills
- Knowledge of global EV charging market, in particular; public charging, market structures, and regulatory backdrop
- Experience with CRM, billing, and customer support systems in a service-led environment.
- Understanding of the broader EV ecosystem, including smart charging, energy services, and V2G.
- Experience scaling digital services across multiple European markets or globally.
- Ability to rapidly understand the key concepts of the system of interest and to lead groups of subject matter experts to design and architect these systems
- Ability to resolve complex, cross functional and cross-domain systems engineering problems
- Experience operating inside an Agile framework
- Good understanding of automotive industry, including competitor and market awareness
Education:
- Degree or relevant equivalent experience.
If you're a Product Owner with deep EV ecosystem knowledge and a passion for digital services, this is an opportunity to make real impact.