IT Product Owner

About this role

Our Product Owners play a lead role in ensuring there is continuous improvement of policing products, expanding our capability to deliver an outstanding police service. They work in collaboration with IT and business stakeholders to manage a diverse portfolio of software applications.

The role:

This role will be highly collaborative, looking at latest trends and technologies, engaging with the relevant Technical Specialists, Solution Architect and external suppliers to resolve any problematic areas within the business process. You will manage key internal and external stakeholder relationships throughout, engaging and equipping to ensure business needs and expectations are met.

Lead and provide expertise, as the subject matter expert (SME) for the prioritisation and planning of product reviews, being responsible for empowering digital employee experience teams, development teams and suppliers to deliver value to the end user. Working closely with delivery managers, stakeholders, the User Experience Team, the Content Management Team as well as end users, to ensure value is delivered to our colleagues and our communities.

Flexible hybrid working is available, you can work from home for a proportion of your week and also spend time with colleagues working in the office (some travel across the force area as required).

Main Responsibilities:

• Identifying products on the market that will enhance users to deliver better services, more efficiently.
• Use data and insights to understand citizen and colleague benefits, provide structured monitoring and reporting for the products you are responsible for.
• Work with other product owners and stakeholders to inform thinking to minimise duplication and wastage of capabilities, informing “build”, “buy” or “decommission” decisions.
• Work with external suppliers and customers to ensure successful implementation and adoption of enabling capabilities within digital products and services.
• Take ownership of problems an...