Product Owner, IT Business Services, Central Business Services Aberdeen, Scotland
Job description
Connect to your Industry
Do you enjoy the idea of being responsible for working with various stakeholders to drive maximum benefit from a product to our users and business? If so, this opportunity is for you!
Deloitte is looking for a Product Owner to join its talented IT Business Applications team to coordinate, innovate and continually improve a wide range of products consumed by our business.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
As a Product Owner within Business Applications, you will work as part of a team who are accountable for the build, management and support of a diverse range of applications within Deloitte.
A key focus will be on all aspects of value delivery, working closely with different stakeholders (including IT leadership, senior business stakeholders and vendors) to define product strategy and translate this into a clear and actionable roadmap to ensure your product delivers significant benefit to the business.
You will plan and prioritise a product backlog to drive enhancements while being responsible for the full application lifecycle. This includes ensuring compliance with Deloitte and industry standards.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
You’re a natural at communicating both verbally and in the written format to a wide range of stakeholders, a great active listener and hugely collaborative.
Essentials
- Ability to translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories and acceptance criteria
- Build effective relationships to derive product roadmaps and ensure they are reflective of any changing business requirements
- Experience of working with business stakeholders across different levels to identify and prioritise initiatives based on value and track through to delivery through a product backlog
- Demonstrable knowledge of delivery and service methodologies including Waterfall, Agile and ITIL
- Analysing reporting data to gain business insights for continual service improvement opportunities
- Innovative and creative thinker who is able to articulate and deliver on a vision
- Organisational and leadership skills to influence, negotiate and manage the competing demands of different stakeholder groups
- Ability to coordinate activities across multiple functions to maintain service operations and development
Desirables
- Experience in a delivery role (e.g. Application Management, Technical Development Project Manager, Technology Lead, etc.)
- Familiarity with SaaS solutions
- Vendor management experience
Connect to your business - Enabling Functions
Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
“Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact.
"The amount of investment in me in terms of training and development has been incredible - it has undoubtedly helped me to progress my career."
- Jim, Enabling Functions
Connect to your agile working options
Location: UK Wide
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
You’ll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you’ll be part of the UK Wide team. You’ll spend most of your time working from home like all of your UK Wide colleagues in the Enabling Functions, or in a local collaboration space when needed. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon. The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way by enabling flexibility for our people and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
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Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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