Product Owner

TerraQuest

Role: Product Owner

Location: Birmingham office - in line with our Agile Working Policy. You will need to be able to work from our Birmingham office 2 days per week

Salary: Competitive

Who we are...

TerraQuest Solutions Ltd is an award-winning and market-leading specialist provider of planning land property and business solutions. We are an established and trusted organisation that is renowned for its expertise in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions to both public and private sectors. Our team delivers bespoke flexible and efficient services through a process-orientated delivery structure. We pride ourselves on strong customer relationships evidenced by the high proportion of referrals and repeat business.

Why work with us

We are a Living Wage Foundation accredited employer committed to supporting the well-being and development of all our people. With competitive salaries enhanced Family Friendly policies; a fabulous suite of benefits (including: Pension; Life Assurance; Employee Assistance Programme; option to buy additional annual leave in addition to 25 days plus Bank Holidays); true flexibility with our Agile Working approach and superb training and development opportunities we really care about our team!

What we need...

Due to a period of sustained growth we are looking to recruit a Product Owner to join our Planning Portal Team.

Reporting to the Product Lead and working within Solutions Team the Product Owner will be primarily responsible for refining and delivering product features to high quality.

Working closely with the Scrum team business stakeholders and customers the Product Owner will be the driving force behind developing product solutions; accountable for bringing in key insights from user research quantitative data and getting the right people in the room to collaboratively develop the right solutions to customer and business needs in the right way.

What you will be doing

• Product Vision Define and communicate product vision and strategy to get buy in from relevant stakeholders. Be a product visionary and lead the Scrum team to deliver excellent products.

Motivate and challenge the team to be creative innovative and deliver timely and high-quality results.

• Product Roadmap and Continuous Improvement Proactively work on evaluating feature ideas and enhancements to form a prioritised roadmap for your product vertical. Collaborate with Customer Success Sales User Research and Technical teams to gather and analyse data in the form of qualitative user feedback and interviews and quantitative product metrics and market research.
• New product Development Lead Product Discovery on new features and products from evaluating concepts and ideas for business and technical viability to Ideation and producing a high level storymap of the optimal solution.
• Backlog Management and Prioritisation- Create prioritise and manage the product backlog to ensure timely delivery of features. Ensure Scrum teams always have a minimum of two sprints worth of work prepared. Produce high quality written features and user stories with detailed Acceptance Criteria and be accountable for stories meeting the Definition of Ready.

• Release Planning and Product Launch: With the support of Project managers and Scrum Masters track progress of delivery and timeline estimates actively managing risks and cross team dependencies. Collaborate with other departments like Sales and Marketing to successfully launch.
• Market Analysis: Stay informed about industry trends and market developments to identify opportunities for product improvements and innovations.
• User Centricity - Be a champion of user-centred products by actively engaging with customers analysing support desk feedback and participate in focus groups and interviews the User Research team to ensure the product meets customer needs.
• Metrics and KPIs: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of the product.

What we are looking for

This is an exciting role and an opportunity to develop your skills and make your mark in a growing team. The ideal candidate will have previous experience of leading products from Discovery to Launch in both b2c and b2b environments. Analytical with a strong product sense you can articulate the products purpose goals and the value it will deliver to users.

You are an excellent communicator and are comfortable leading and facilitating workshops with internal and external stakeholders.

Product Owners often need to lead and influence without direct authority over teams. The ideal candidate will foster a collaborative environment empowering Design Architect and Scrum teams to produce effective solutions by providing a clear compelling vision and direction of the product.

Please apply for more information and please do not be put off if you do not have all of the experience and skills required. If you have the majority of skills and relevant experience we would still like to hear from you!

TerraQuest Solutions Ltdis committed to promoting equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and to creating an inclusive working environment in which individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

We ensure that no job applicant employee or worker receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age disability gender reassignment marital or civil partnership status pregnancy or maternity race (including colour nationality ethnic or national origin) religion or belief political opinion sex or sexual orientation.

TerraQuest Solutions Ltd operates in compliance with the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998. We monitor the composition of our workforce in accordance with the Fair Employment (Monitoring) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and where applicable submit annual monitoring returns to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI). All monitoring information is held securely and processed under the legal basis of compliance with a statutory obligation in accordance with the UK GDPRand the Data Protection Act 2018. We do not rely on employee consent and ensure all personal data is treated with the utmost confidentiality and integrity.

TerraQuest aims to use this data to help identify and address any patterns of underrepresentation and to inform positive action measures where appropriate fostering a workplace culture that embraces diversity and fair participation.