Assistant Product Owner

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)

Salary circa £35000 negotiable based on skills and experience plus brilliant benefits including health cash plan!

Home, a place where you belong

Are you passionate about digital platforms and eager to shape the future of customer and colleague engagement? Join us as our Assistant Product Owner in our dynamic team at Home Group, where your work will directly influence the digital journey of our services, ensuring they're aligned with our customers’ needs. Take on a role where your insights lead to impactful changes, making digital interaction seamless and intuitive and impacting real and meaningful change for our customers and colleagues.

Typical day as an Assistant Product Owner

• Collaborate closely with the Lead Product Owner to maintain and evolve the roadmap for our digital products, ensuring they meet the ever-changing needs of our customers and colleagues.

• Immerse yourself in market trends, customer feedback, and analytics to guide the development of features that truly matter.

• Work hand-in-hand with web development teams, crafting user stories and journeys that bring our digital vision to life.

• Navigate through priorities, conflicts, and stakeholder needs to secure a product roadmap that aligns with our strategic goals.

• Engage in all agile ceremonies, from sprint planning to retrospectives, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.

• Be a pivotal part of product releases, communicating value and expectations to stakeholders, reinforcing your role as a key product knowledge source.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for a top 10 Great Place to Work in the UK Employer!

You bring

• A collaborative spirit, thriving in teamwork and open communication across various groups within Home Group.

• Experience in product management, demonstrating a track record of influencing product development to enhance user satisfaction.

• An understanding of web technologies and how they can be leveraged to meet customer needs in the digital realm.

• A proactive, win-win approach to problem-solving, always seeking solutions that benefit all parties involved.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, capable of fostering strong relationships and effectively influencing across the organisation.

• A curiosity for Agile methodologies and digital product design, with a keen interest in continuous learning and development in these areas.

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review.

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!

Job details

• Flexible working hours (or we’re open to agreeing a work pattern with you)

• You’ll manage your own diary, so if you need to nip out to walk the dog or do the school run, we’re ok with that!

• This is a hybrid role, you’ll spend 2 days a week in the office, 3 days working at home.

• Able to use technology to collaborate with customers and colleagues and have a finger on the pulse with digital technologies.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (includes bank hols and a “me day” to use whenever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!

• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.

• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.

• Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.

• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!

• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary. See our full range of benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Assistant Product Owner Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out.

Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk