Product Owner - Workforce & Vendor Management

JOB TITLE: Product Owner - Workforce & Vendor Management

LOCATION: Halifax or Leeds

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days per week) in one of our office hubs mentioned above

About this opportunity

We’re excited to be hiring for our People Platform team at Lloyds Banking Group, a team that combines the best of customer-centricity, product obsession and agile delivery across our People Technology landscape.

In this Product Owner role you'll be responsible for driving delivery and value outcomes across Vendor Management and Non Permanent Worker management products. This includes implementing technology improvements.

Key accountabilities:

• Build expert knowledge of the products and processes and how these are executed through our technology systems to understand and improve colleague engagement and experience.

• Shape the product vision, build and manage the product backlog, creating features, epics and user stories that describe and define what we want to achieve in line with the product vision.

• Defines user-stories and work with other team members to analyse these stories for colleague journey improvements.

• Drive delivery of the E2E colleague journeys, ensuring feedback is incorporated into the team’s work outcomes and how colleagues are valuing the new features.

• Support development of Lab or Team Objectives and Key Results and provide product performance and benefits realisation data.

• Developing capabilities within your functional area and invest in personal and team growth through mentoring and other informal methods.

About us

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy an exciting career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here.

What you’ll need

• Evidence ability to manage and run a product backlog, creating features, epics and user stories that describe and define what we want to achieve.

• Experience in applying agile methodologies to optimise innovation development and delivery.

• Significant experience operating within agile development methods & tooling e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of leading & working as part of an agile team within HR technology / process landscape

• Excellent stakeholder management skills – you will be collaboratively working with colleagues from different areas across the business and third parties

• Experience building a high performing team environment. You'll inspire delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence and trust.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Delivering change within HR technology

• HR practitioner experience

• Knowledge of Vendor Management and Non permanent workforce management solutions and how technology is being used to support colleague experience and engagement

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!