Platform Product Owner - London, United Kingdom - Chambers and Partners

Chambers and Partners

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Vacancy No

VN558

Location

Employment Type

Perm

Basis

Fixed Term Duration

Overview

We're seeking an accomplished Business Analyst or Product Owner to join Chambers as a Platform Product Owner.

This role entails full-cycle delivery, demanding adept stakeholder management skills and the capacity to handle various workstreams efficiently and swiftly.

You'll be responsible for shaping and implementing the strategy, roadmap, and backlog for Chambers platforms and services within your Research domain.

This involves capturing and scrutinising requirements, pinpointing efficiency opportunities, offering thought leadership, fostering challenges, and ensuring that business processes yield the desired outcomes for both our end-user products and corporate goals.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Foster and maintain exceptional stakeholder relationships, both with the business and technology, supported by exceptional communication. Be truly trusted.
Act as single point of ownership for platform prioritisation and analysis in your domain/remit. Prioritise balancing business need, and complexity to achieve and risk.
Have accountability for the endtoend delivery of platform enhancements and transformations. Plan and execute to time. Effectively manage dependencies, risks, issues and resources (internal or external). Find solutions to problems. Accountable for delivering the KPIs/benefits
Conduct extensive customer research to inform the platform roadmaps and assist in the usability of these platforms
Provide product consultancy for Business Change initiatives
Elicit business requirements and objectives using a variety of methods, including interviews, workshops and surveys
Producing requirements specifications, functional specifications, process models, business rules and use cases as applicable. Determine true needs and perform gap analysis against current capability
Provide a constant stream of highquality engineering requirements (epics, stories) with clear acceptance criteria in a timely fashion
Champion 'one team' agile working practices, supporting rapid benefit delivery and autonomous working
Manage and work with 3rd party products and services that integrate in the Platforms

Skills and Experience

Demonstrable experience working in a research domain, as a product/platform owner, business analyst or research analyst
Demonstrable experience creating and managing backlogs to meet strategic objectives
Articulate, able to create concise requirements, epics, stories with clear acceptance criteria
Ensure an effective understanding of business and product priorities, adapting recommendations/opportunities to meet that strategy
Understand and champions agile ways of working
Prioritisation skills to handle fast paced dynamic environment
Data literate, understanding how data can be structured and manipulated to enhance the customer proposition
Technically astute, with a good knowledge of engineering processes and frameworks. Able to constructively challenge at a technical design level. Demonstrates selfdevelopment in this area.
Experience in a number of the following research areas:
Content mgmt. systems or publishing workflows
Search & matching platforms
Data collection platforms (Interview / Survey platforms etc)
Research processes and interview preparation
Research strategy
Research campaign management & optimisation

Person Specification

Provides thought leadership in the specialist business domain
Constructively challenges convention and seeks new ways of achieving better results
Demonstrates sound and pragmatic judgement, balancing pace, risk and business value to reach decisions and deliver solutions
Is Customer and data centric in approach
Proactive selfstarter who continuously seeks ways to improve
Attention to detail, focused on the finer details that make the difference.
Analytical mindset, with passion for identifying issues and understanding 'why'; able to turn findings into actions

Benefits

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**Equal Opportunity Statement