Product Owner FTC (12 Months)

£60,000 to £70,000 Base Salary

West Sussex – 2 days a week in the office, 3 WFH (Flexible)

Our Client, a well-established financial services organisation, are looking to hire a Product owner to join their agile product development team to deliver a pre-agreed roadmap of features – Mobile App and Web.

This is a 12 Month Contract with an ASAP start date.

Overview of Responsibilities

• Delivering against an agreed roadmap of product enhancements
• Working closely with an agile product team
• Working with Subject Matter Experts for Sign-Off
• Maintaining a detailed sprint plan
• Reporting on sprint progress and key feature delivery to internal stakeholders
• Providing regular updates to key stakeholders
• Sharing the product vision with the larger business
• Working with Squad Leads, Scrum Masters & SMEs to maximise the efficiency of the team.

Skills and Experience

• Experience working within agile software development teams in a Product Manager role or similar
• Experience working within a wide range of technologies and a good technical mindset.
• Can articulate a good understand of agile principles and methodologies.
• Proven track record of developing successful products.
• Strong self-starter with strong organisation skills.
• Kean eye for detail and good problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to influence and set clear achievable expectations.
• Good understanding of MS Office, specifically in documenting and presenting information.
• Bonus: Agile Product Owner or Scrum Master Certification
• Bonus: Experience working with Azure Dev Ops
• Bonus: Story boarding/ workshop experience
• Experience of product analysis using Google Analytics

If this role is of interest, please apply below!

SAP Business Systems Manager

Bolton (Hybrid – 3 days a week on site)

£65,000 + benefits

A well-known fantastic business in Bolton is looking for a SAP Business Systems Manager on a full time basis.

My client have recently implemented SAP S4/HANA and have a huge pipeline of work and therefore looking for a Business Systems Manager to join the family. The ideal person will have;

• SD knowledge – order to cash experience.
• Configuration of SAP Systems experience
• Ability to test and build documents
• Business process and systems experience ideally gained in a FMCG environment
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.

You will be working in a team of 6 likeminded individuals. This role is a role which you can really make your own, with lots of project work and progression from a technical stand point.

SAP Consultant – SC Cleared

Location: Remote

Rate: £480 – £580 | Inside IR35

Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required

Contract: Short Term

We’re currently working with a one of our well-established clients to recruit for a SAP Consultant with a SAP BASIS skillset and experience with S/4.

Skills/Technologies

• 5+ Years experience with SAP BASIS
• Experience with Installation and Admin of:
  • SAP HANA DB
  • S/4 HANA
  • GTS E4H
• RedHat Linux (Preferred but not essential)
• Azure Cloud (Preferred but not essential)
• SAP BASIS Certification (Preferred but not essential)

Due to the timescales involved, the client can only consider applicants with a live and active SC Clearance.

If interested, please apply directly through this advert or contact Lewis at Sanderson via email at [email protected] or on 07506 960641.

Intelligent Resource is working in partnership with a major Client in the UK. We are currently recruiting for Technical Product Owner to be Reading based out.

Job Title= Technical Product Owner

Location = Reading/Remote

Duration= 6 months initially

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Key activities will include ensuring the IT backlog is maintained prioritised and aligns to Business need, that EPICs and User Stories are developed and accepted by the IT scrum teams. You will align with the Business Product Managers and the Release Manager to co-ordinate deliverables and releases to ensure an optimal outcome for the organisation at all times while ensuring the platform continues to meet day-to-day requirements. You will be expected to live agile values and principles to contribute to harmonious, effective and efficient working environment.
• Define the Metering, Energy Industry interaction & Billing or Customer Engagement products in collaboration with key stakeholders and socialise with the teams.
• -Be the Technical expert in IT for Metering, Energy Industry interaction & Billing or Customer Engagement functions
• -Evolve the Billing & Customer Care IT product roadmap based on customer, product teams and business feedback linked to business outcomes.
• Work with portfolio governance team to define any funding and investment requirements to continue Product enhancement and growth.
• Oversee platform product priorities, resource requirements, and development stages.
• Ensure that Vendor teams are delivering to contractual obligations and maintain positive vendor relationships.
• Anticipating the organisation needs, managing the product backlog and prioritising needs based on value delivered.
• Remove impediments to product progress and aid with work dependencies, risks and issues.
• Determine developments to the Billing & Customer Care IT roadmap based on business priority changes.
• Proactively share knowledge to drive technology learning, understanding and appreciation across Business and IT colleagues.
• Ensure that IT & Business strategy, policy and standards are adhered to, thus achieving commonality and ease of maintenance.
• Apply learning from retrospectives and actively elicit relevant feedback from stakeholders.

What do I need?

• You’ll have experience as a Product Owner delivering platform capabilities, where you’ve exemplified and promoted Agile values and principles. The following skills and experience are essential:
• Essential: Demonstrated experience in Microsoft Dynamics to support either the Metering, Energy Industry Interaction & Billing or Customer Engagement functions of UMAX.
• Relevant experience in an Energy utility and/or experience of utility billing platforms.
• Experience of managing vendors relationships.
• Ability to provide information in a logical and consistent manner and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work in environments that are undergoing change, working in an iterative and adaptive manner.
• Ability to thrive in a challenging environment.
• Strong demonstrated experience of agile processes and principles.
• Experience with defining and prioritising a portfolio of work.
• Ability to negotiate requirements, timelines and other delivery metrics across product lifecycle.
• Application of the concepts of delivery risks and issues, and ability to develop counter measures and contingency plans associated with significant delivery risk.

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Our leading client has an exciting new vacancy for a Data Product Owner to join an expanding team. As a Data PO, you will be responsible for leading the development and management of data-driven products within the organization through defining product vision, strategy, and roadmap, as well as prioritizing features and enhancements based on user needs and business goals.

You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, data analysts, software developers and business stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of data products that drive business value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Vision and Strategy: Define and communicate the vision and strategy for data products, aligning with business objectives and market trends.
• Define KPI trees, metrics, definitions and create a data dictionary
• Data Governance: Ensure data products adhere to data governance policies and best practices, maintaining data quality, security, and compliance.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor and analyse the performance of data products, using metrics and feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Roadmap Development: Develop and maintain a product roadmap, prioritizing features and enhancements based on user feedback, business value, and technical feasibility.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders, to gather requirements, define product features, and ensure successful delivery.

Skills / experience

• Proven experience as a Product Owner in a data-driven environment.
• Strong understanding of data analytics, data management, and data governance.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and product management tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Business, or a related field preferred

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
• Knowledge of machine learning and AI concepts.
• Familiarity with cloud / AWS platforms
• Experience with Alteryx or Databricks

Interim Customer Experience and Proposition Lead – Retail

£500 – £600 a day via umbrella

5 months initially

Southampton or London

Our client, a well-known retail brand, are looking to hire a Customer Experience and Proposition Lead to join during a transformation to a more customer centric approach. You will advocate for the customer and drive true customer centricity across the organisation.

Responsibilities Include:

• Establish an understanding of customer proposition across the business
• Define and prioritise the key value driving propositions
• Champion the customer to ensure customer needs are central to proposition development
• Define and develop both new and existing customer propositions through identifying customer needs
• Identify and deliver proposition opportunities to improve customer experience through an understanding of the customer, their needs, and their journeys
• Build a strong understanding of the external market to bring new ideas to the table on how to evolve customer experience
• Ensure a clear understanding of the latest developments in the external market to ensure you can bring a market leading perspective to customer experience evolution
• Set the customer journey framework
• Lead the CX change

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in a similar role in a retail environment – essential
• Ability to define design and development customer proposition, ideally in a proposition specialist role
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Strong analytical skills

If this role is of interest, please apply below or send your CV to [email protected]

Interim Customer Experience and Proposition Lead – Retail

£500 – £600 a day via umbrella

Southampton (Hybrid), Occasional travel to London

Our client, a well-known retail brand, are looking to hire a Customer Experience and Proposition Lead to join during a transformation to a more customer centric approach. You will advocate for the customer and drive true customer centricity across the organisation.

Responsibilities Include:

• Establish an understanding of customer proposition across the business
• Define and prioritise the key value driving propositions
• Champion the customer to ensure customer needs are central to proposition development
• Define and develop both new and existing customer propositions through identifying customer needs
• Identify and deliver proposition opportunities to improve customer experience through an understanding of the customer, their needs, and their journeys
• Build a strong understanding of the external market to bring new ideas to the table on how to evolve customer experience
• Ensure a clear understanding of the latest developments in the external market to ensure you can bring a market leading perspective to customer experience evolution
• Set the customer journey framework
• Lead the CX change

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in a similar role in a retail environment – essential
• Ability to define design and development customer proposition, ideally in a proposition specialist role
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Strong analytical skills

If this role is of interest, please apply below or send your CV to [email protected]

Adobe Execution Manager – Adobe Experience Platform/ Adobe Journey Optimiser

Rate- £650 Inside IR35 (Umbrella engagement)

Duration- 6 Months initial contract

Location- London, 50%/ twice a week on site

Sanderson are recruiting for a large financial services client seeking an Adobe Execution Manager as they look to create an Adobe Journey Optimiser team responsible for design, build and test AEP, AJO and deliverables from the programme ensuring the data is correct.

Required Skills:

• Extensive Experience with Adobe Campaign, Journey Optimiser and Experience Platform
• Extensive Experience with Email, SMS and DM campaigns
• Experience supporting with BAU
• Experience with Senior Stakeholders
• Good Communication Skills

If you feel this role is suited to you, please apply in the link attached!

Location: Chipping Sodbury- Hybrid (Office & Remote)

Employment Type: Permanent

Salary: £45,000 – £53,000 with Bonus Scheme

Are you a talented Technical Business Analyst looking for your next challenge? Do you want to work for a socially responsible company that invests in your growth and career development? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

Your Role:

As a Technical Business Analyst, you will play a crucial role in gathering, analysing, and managing business requirements. You will bridge the gap between stakeholders, the product owner, and the development team to ensure clear communication and successful project outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder Communication: Ensure clarity on objectives and requirements between stakeholders, product owner, and development team.
• Translation: Convert ideas into business/process outcomes and solutions.
• Prototyping: Work with solutions designers and development teams to create prototypes and engage stakeholders for agreement.
• Documentation: Identify and document changes to service, process, organisation, operating model, and more.
• Compliance: Deliver solutions compliant with relevant architectures, strategies, roadmaps, policies, and standards.
• Client Requirements: Understand client needs, deliver analysis, collect data, and resolve problems.

Key Accountabilities:

• Support Product Owner: Assist in writing user stories and acceptance criteria, and create executable specs using BDD.
• Change Function Liaison: Develop business requirements into functional solution requirements.
• Documentation: Develop and update system, solution, and process documentation.
• Estimate Review: Review estimates for Change Requests identified during the project.
• Process Improvement: Challenge existing processes and behaviours to drive the adoption of new, leaner processes.
• Inform Dev and Test: Write user stories to guide the development and testing teams.

What’s Offered:

• Career Growth: Opportunities for career progression and professional development.
• Hybrid Working: Flexibility to work both in the office and remotely.
• Bonus Scheme: Competitive salary with a bonus scheme to reward your contributions.

If you are a proactive and experienced Business Analyst with a passion for driving successful project outcomes, we want to hear from you!

Apply Now and take the next step in your career.

Digital Product Manager – SAP

SAP Delivery Manager

Product Manager – SAP

The role:

Working for a highly prestigous brand as they navigate a large scale, highly critical Digital Transformation programme, which will help shape how they interact and enage with their customers for the next 5 – 10 years. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager or Delivery manager with experience of SAP to help the organisation understand the implications of change and improvment across their digital and technology estate, which is underpinned by SAP.

Who you will work with

Internal: Head of Product Management, Head of Service Delivery, IT Director, Principal Solution Architect, SAP Specialists

External: We have several key relationships with software vendors and implementation and support partners.

What you will do

• Define and articulate a clear vision for the product development for the finance & supply chain teams and understand the impact of product decisions on customer and business value.
• Scope, assess and schedule SAP development work which could be a combination strategic projects and continuous improvement (CI) that aligns with finance and supply chain needs.
• Work with the Architect, the Business Owners, Integration Partners and the Delivery team to effectively prioritise and manage design, builds and changes.
• Collaborate with other Product Owners, Head of Product Management and Business Owners to support the definition and development of the product roadmaps, strategy and prioritisation and balancing this priority with your own as necessary.
• As a member of the Design Authority, review proposed enhancements and changes scheduled for release into production to ensure adherence to design and implementation principles.
• Own our SAP roadmap, working with the Principle Solutions Architect and communicate strategic plans.
• Where needed, provide project management for system development or system change as required.

What you will bring to the role

• 3+ years’ experience of working as a Product Owner/Product Manager with Agile development teams.
• Extensive experience in delivering customer outcomes via the implementation of new solutions or amending of existing solutions.
• Strong commercial awareness and an ability to operate in commercially sensitive and important situations.
• The ability to lead, structure and resource a technical team to deliver results within a target driven environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills, being able to identify innovative yet practical solutions to complex problems.
• Solid technical and analytical skills, with ability to interpret data and present information clearly.

Your SAP Skills

• Significant technical experience with SAP (ideally S/4 Hana).
• Solid understanding of the SAP product set in order to effectively analyse the current implementation and how changes may need to be made to successfully enhance business capabilities.