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Introduction
Discover a world of endless possibilities at Gallagher Benefit Services, where you'll have the power to shape the future of workplaces across industries. As a member of our team, you become the driving force behind positive change, helping clients build environments where employees thrive. Embrace the opportunity to impact lives, unlock potential, and create a legacy of remarkable transformation.
Overview
A Product Owner is responsible for defining and supporting the delivery of detailed product requirements within an agile feature team at Gallagher. The role's primary goal is to ensure team members understand the problems they are addressing and to prioritize the backlog of system modifications, fixes, and enhancements in collaboration with a Platform Product Manager. You will work strategically and tactically to ensure your team's capabilities drive value to the business outcomes supported by the platform.
Key Responsibilities
1. Collaborate with the Collective Lead to prioritize initiatives and features, and assist in creating epics and feature breakdowns.
2. Refine features and develop user stories to detail requirements for functional additions, enhancements, or defect resolutions for upcoming sprints.
3. Manage backlog grooming and refine priorities within sprints and releases.
4. Present user stories during sprint planning, addressing questions and providing additional information for development requirements.
5. Demonstrate platform features to stakeholders outside the feature team.
6. Ensure epics and user stories are tagged with estimates, working with the technology lead to refine these based on delivery approaches.
7. Participate in agile ceremonies like daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, in line with the squad’s practices.
Critical Competencies
1. Ability to build and maintain professional relationships across all organizational levels.
2. Skilled in collaborating with stakeholders, leads, and development teams to articulate priorities, manage trade-offs, and communicate needs.
3. Capable of managing work products related to key responsibilities.
4. Proficient in organizing and prioritizing tasks with minimal supervision and adapting to changing priorities.
About You
1. Experience as a product owner in an agile environment.
2. Experience in insurance, benefits, HR, or financial industries is preferred.
3. Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, great teams, and exciting career opportunities, along with a wide range of benefits including:
* Minimum of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with options to buy extra days.
* Defined contribution pension scheme with employer contributions.
* Life insurance (4x salary, with options to increase to 10x).
* Income protection covering up to 50% of income, with top-up options.
* Health cash plan or private medical insurance.
Additional Benefits
* Three paid volunteering days annually.
* Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a discount.
* Share incentive plan, HMRC approved.
* Critical illness cover.
* Discounted gym memberships nationwide.
* Season ticket loans.
* Access to discount vouchers and emergency family care services.
* And more.
Inclusion and Diversity
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values diversity. Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed, and we support applicants with disabilities through reasonable adjustments. Our policies ensure equal employment opportunities, prohibiting discrimination based on protected characteristics and providing accommodations for disabilities.
Additional Details
* Seniority level: Not Applicable
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Product Management and Marketing
* Industry: Insurance
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