Product Owner (Banking, KYC, customer journey mapping)
Posted 3 days ago by Insight International (UK) Ltd
Negotiable
Undetermined
Onsite
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Product Owner in Sheffield involves leading digital and user-centric product initiatives within a contract framework. The position requires extensive experience in product management, particularly in customer journey mapping and stakeholder engagement. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong analytical and decision-making skills, with a focus on driving value in a regulated industry. Familiarity with banking and KYC/CDD solutions is advantageous.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead product initiatives with a focus on digital and user-centric outcomes.
- Identify intended benefits and outcomes to assist in prioritization processes.
- Collaborate with business teams and engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Leverage financial information to monitor costs and make commercial decisions.
- Manage critical decision-making processes in a regulated industry.
- Experiment and test ideas while sharing learnings and insights.
- Utilize strong analytical, problem-solving, and process design skills.
- Work within Agile/Scrum environments and adapt to shifting priorities.
- Challenge thinking and influence across the organization.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience in product ownership or management.
- Ability to identify benefits and outcomes for prioritization.
- Experience in customer journey mapping.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills.
- Financial acumen for monitoring costs and making decisions.
- Management and decision-making experience in regulated industries.
- Analytical, problem-solving, and process design skills.
- Knowledge of Project Management, Business Analysis, and Software Development Lifecycle.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
- Experience in banking and KYC/CDD solutions is a plus.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Role: Product Owner
Location: Sheffield (3days/week On-Site)
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
- Extensive experience in a digital, technical or user centric product role (Product Owner or Product Manager).
- Ability to identify intended benefits and outcomes to assist in prioritisation process, and illustrate excellent decision-making skills to inform road map development
- Experience of working directly with business team
- Working experience in “customer journey mapping”
- Ability to positively influence, engage and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, including high value customers, suppliers / vendors, and other internal Product teams
- Experience leveraging financial information to monitor costs and/or make commercial decisions to drive value
- Demonstrable management and critical decision-making experience in a regulated industry
- Confidence to experiment, test ideas, and share learnings and insights.
- Strong analytical, problem solving, process design, and requirements gathering skills along with knowledge of Project Management, Business Analysis, and / or Software Development Lifecycle - ideally in an Agile / Scrum environment.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and being outside your comfort zone
- Able to challenge thinking and influence across the organisation.
- Good to have experience in banking and onboarding and KYC/CDD solutions or similar products