Senior Product Owner

Senior Product Owner
Location: Hybrid - Corby or London
RS Group is looking for an experienced Senior Product Owner to join our Digital Procurement team. This role is responsible for managing, defining, and prioritizing backlog items to drive the development of innovative digital products. You'll help shape our digital roadmap, focusing on expanding RS Components' market share within the Key and Corporate customer segment by delivering solutions that enhance the end-to-end customer journey and build our future digital procurement platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Vision & Strategy: Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap to deliver world-class customer experiences and drive revenue growth.
• Digital Procurement Roadmap: Collaborate with business and sales teams to develop and execute the Digital Procurement Roadmap, meeting the needs of customers and business objectives.
• Agile Delivery: Prioritize and manage iterative agile releases that focus on delivering the highest value, balancing new product development and risk mitigation. Collaborate closely with key stakeholders, utilizing insights from industry trends, analytics, and customer feedback.
• Roadmap Development: Research and benchmark best practices, creating both annual and quarterly product roadmaps. Present and socialize these across the global business up to VP/C-level.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with UX, Design, Front-end Development, SEO, Analytics, Engineering, and project teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate product plans, prioritization decisions, and the impact of changes on customer experience and product performance. Ensure clear hypotheses and metrics for success are defined for all initiatives.
• Community of Practice: Play a key role in contributing to the Product Owner Community of Practice for the broader Solution team.

About You:
This is a pivotal role in delivering our ambitious growth and revenue goals. You will have the opportunity to drive significant transformation across our digital platforms.

Key Qualifications:

• Domain Expertise: Strong understanding of e-Purchasing, ERPs, or e-Invoicing markets, with experience in corporate procurement processes and systems integration.
• Strategic Roadmap Development: Proven ability to develop product strategies and roadmaps using data-driven insights to foster change.
• Project Management: Experience managing multiple projects and programs of work simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to provide clear, solution-focused recommendations and manage complex issues.
• Customer-Centric Mindset: Passion for creating outstanding customer experiences and challenging the status quo.
• Agile Expertise: Experience leading Agile teams, with a focus on proactive issue resolution and risk management.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Strong communication skills, with the ability to build consensus and effectively 'sell' product strategies.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Ability to use data to drive objective decision-making and prioritization.

Desirable Skills:

• Enterprise Experience: Experience in managing product ownership within large, cross-functional matrix organizations.
• Certifications: Certified Product Owner or Agile qualifications.
• Technical Tools: Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence.
• Global Business Experience: Experience working within a global business context.

The extras you'll get:
At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you'd expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we've just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette's syndrome.
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery.
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.

We are RS:
At RS we've been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the 'what ifs' into the 'why nots', the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that's exactly how we partner with people - our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities - to solve problems.

We'll also invest in your development and wellbeing - because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join us and we'll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

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