Product Owner/ Project Manager - London, United Kingdom - Hays Technology

Description

An organisation which is a leading provider of individual Wealth management, Asset management and other services to a variety of clients - private clients, charities and professional partners.

They are currently growing rapidly and are undertaking large-scale technology and business transformation to improve their services utilising new systems and processes.

The Product Owner/ Project Manager will join a small team of Product Owners (currently 4 others in the team) geographically dispersed across multiple locations.

You will be working on a significant digital transformation programme - creating an entire back-office for Investment managers/ financial planners.

Currently, there are many manual processes, so the aim of the project is to implement a new 3rd party Digital vendor solution which is currently due to go live around June/ July this year.

The Product Owner/ Project Manager will be required to own the delivery of the Product to the business, working closely with the vendor to ensure successful delivery of the solution.

Initially, the role will involve a lot of Project Management, with around 20% of the role being Product Ownership in the early stages however this is likely to change when it comes to implementation and enhancement stages.

This is a highly complex project and will require both Project Management and Product ownership skills with the ability to adapt to a highly changing environment.

Experience in both a Product Owner and Project Management capacity
Strong knowledge of Agile - Agile certification would be preferable
Experience of working on digital technology transformation programmes
FS knowledge - ideally Wealth management is preferableWhat you'll get in return

Competitive Salary


Benefits package includes:

• 9 % pension
• Life cover- 10X salary
• Discretionary bonus

Initially a 12-month FTC but there is a very high likelihood the role will be extended or even made permanent.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers.

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