FS Product Owner - Payments Squad
The Very Group, United Kingdom

We’re The Very Group, home to Very.co.uk, Littlewoods.com and a team of 4,000 super-talented people.

We’re the UK’s largest integrated digital retailer and financial services provider, and we’ve been helping customers say yes when it matters most for over 100 years. In that time, we’ve consistently reinvented our business to adapt to economic conditions and industry changes going from bricks, to clicks, to mobile.

But despite our passion for reinvention, we’ve never wavered from our purpose; to make good things easily accessible to more people. It means giving our customers the brands they love, an outstanding shopping experience and flexible ways to spread the cost.

We’ve continued to deliver for our customers throughout the Covid-19 outbreak and we’ve done it by transforming the way we work.

We’re fired up for the future and the next stage in our development. We’ll give customers access to more great brands for themselves and their families, a seamless shopping experience and even more control of their finances through innovation in flexible ways to pay.

Ready to reinvent? Get in touch.

The Financial Services Change Tribe, based in Speke, is looking to recruit an experienced Product Owner in the newly formed Payments Squad who will be responsible for the change portfolio in that area of Financial Services. The squad will look to deliver the key strategic initiatives focussed on enhancing our customer journey whilst at the same time exploring and looking to implement new and evolving payment methods, all of this whilst ensuring ongoing compliance with any regulatory change.

Having recently moved towards an Agile methodology for delivering change, the role requires you to work both within your own squad and across multiple squads and Tribes.

Key Responsibilities.

• Creates, owns and communicates the Product vision and roadmap for the squad
• Along with the Business Analyst, you will own the management of the Squad’s backlog
• Working with the Engineering Lead, Delivery Owner and Business Analyst, you will be responsible for identifying and prioritising the value being driven from your squad, to ensure realisation of improved business and customer outcomes.
• As part of the squad governance routines, such as stand ups, squad retrospectives and showcases, you will be responsible for ensuring that any squad output is in line with business / customer expectation and needs whilst adhering to any regulatory requirements.
• You will need to forge strong relationships with your Product peers to both lead and input into cross squad / cross tribe level change, as it is critical that we understand initiative dependencies and coordinate prioritisation
• You will be expected to make evidence backed recommendations amp; decisions that influence our strategy and deliver maximum value
• Provide details of initiative benefits cases and measures of success to support prioritisation, requirements and post implementation assessment

We love what we do, and we know when we have great working relationships, we’re unbeatable. Passion and pride in your work and a natural desire to connect, collaborate and be a team player is a must. Innovation is also key, we can always improve and you will be expected to identify and promote new ways of working / tools where appropriate.

We are seeking passionate, ambitious individuals who have first-rate communication skills.

You must have good experience and knowledge of the Payments and its various attributes. This is essential to enable you to make informed decisions and priority calls across the full spectrum of the Payments function.

You will have worked in multi-disciplined teams in a large-scale, fast-moving digital business, that are a mix of business, delivery and technical roles (Perm / Contractor) combined with experience of managing 3rd Party providers.

Practical experience of Product Ownership in a lean / agile environment is essential, using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning amp; iterating frequently.

You will be an exceptional leader and role model within your team, demonstrating a strong delivery ethic using Agile values and principles through your thinking, processes and actions.

The ability to work within a dynamic and changing environment where priorities and activities will be changing is vital. You will be able to respond energetically and proactively to drive change at a fast pace to help deliver the FS Strategy roadmap.

• 6,500 flexible benefits allowance
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• Flexible working culture
• Onsite gym
• 25% discount on our Very.co.uk clothing,footwear and home and 15% off electricals
• Health and wellbeing agenda
• Private pension matched at 6%

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