Product Owner

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About the London Metal Exchange

The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the worlds global non-ferrous futures business is conducted on the LMEs three trading platforms totalling $18 trillion 178 million lots and 4 billion tonnes with a market open interest high of 1.8 million lots in 2024.

The metals community uses the LME an HKEX Group company as a venue to transfer or take on price risk as a physical market of last resort and as the provider of transparent global reference prices.

Overall Purpose of Role

You will join the product team at the core of delivering high quality innovative and relevant solutions to the LME with the purpose of:
In conjunction with the business owner sets the product vision objectives and outcomes
Accountable for maximizing the value of the product the delivery of the product goal and product backlog
Represent the needs of the many stakeholders across LME and LME Clear
Has the mandate to make business decisions where impact is contained within the product
Owns the product backlog prioritisation and sequencing ensuring the team implements the right requirements
Accountable for all stages of the delivery

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Business Owner and Service Owner and other stakeholders to define the roadmap with the key product goals and objectives needed to deliver the solution. Build and maintain a healthy backlog

• Constantly manage priorities to ensure work is focused with effective management and refinement of the product backlog

• Provide vision and direction to the delivery teams; ensure that the team always has a healthy backlog of work

• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

• Ensure scope is always clear and understood and support teams to elaborate and break-down features

• Lead the scoping of product releases; set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities

• Evaluate the work generated by the delivery teams against Acceptance Criteria and desired outcomes

• Collaborate and coordinate with other Product Owners as applicable

• Manage stakeholders

• Create user stories epics and features and acceptance criteria

• Gathering requirements and writing high level requirements

• Key participant in Sprint Planning and agreeing content for each Sprint

Desirable Academic and Professional Qualifications Required

• Agile Leadership Training

• CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) Product Owner Certification

• PSPO (Professional Scrum Product Owner) preferable not essential

Required Knowledge and Level of Experience

• Experience working as a Product Owner / Product Manager

• Experience working in an exchange or financial organisation

• Sound knowledge in IT management and agile software development.

• Experience of using agile methods and frameworks e.g. Scrum Kanban and Lean as a minimum

Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role

• Communication and leadership skills

• Strategic planning and thinking

• Outcome-driven orientation

• Assertive to help maintain the vision in challenging situations

• Be able to motivate a team

• Stakeholder management ability to communicate with different groups of individuals be able to reach a consensus and have a high degree of diplomacy

• Analytical and problem-solving skills

The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education ethnicity race sex gender identity expression and reassignment nation of origin age languages spoken colour religion disability sexual orientation and doing so we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.