Senior Product Owner

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Position Type Permanent Role Family Operations Cluster Momentum Life Remote Opportunity Some of the time Location - Town / City Centurion Introduction Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations. We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilising new platforms the Momentum Group provides practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses Disclaimer As an applicant, please verify the legitimacy of this job advert on our company career page. Role Purpose Lead the definition, prioritisation, and execution of the product roadmap, guiding development teams to deliver innovative, high-quality products for adviser web, app, and chat platforms and tools. Balance business stakeholder needs, business goals, and technical considerations to ensure successful product outcomes, continuous improvement, and sustainable value creation. Requirements Qualification(s) - Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related area. - Relevant certifications (such as Agile/LEAN) - Postgraduate qualification in Technology, Computer Science, Project Management, or a related discipline (advantageous) Experience - 5 - 10 years relevant experience as a Product Owner, Tribe Lead or Squad Lead. - Experience in defining and managing digital products, client and / or adviser portals, and end-to-end digital journeys, with a strong focus on customer value, adoption and business outcomes. - Experience delivering complex digital journeys and portal capabilities through cross-functional teams, ensuring high-quality execution, stakeholder alignment and measurable customer outcomes. Duties & Responsibilities - Owns the intake, assessment, prioritisation and sequencing of product demand from business units, customers and stakeholders. - Owns end-to-end delivery execution for the squad, ensuring predictable, high-quality and sustainable delivery outcomes. - Establishes and manages demand management processes, ensuring all requests are evaluated against strategic alignment, business value, customer impact, cost, risk and delivery readiness. - Translates prioritised product demand into executable delivery plans and sprint commitments. - Acts as the primary decisionmaker for backlog prioritisation and product trade-off decisions within approved authority limits. - Maintains a demand pipeline and product roadmap that balances strategic initiatives, regulatory requirements, operational improvements, technology enablement and technical debt. - Ensures product demand is sufficiently defined, funded, sponsored and supported before entering squad planning and delivery processes. - Ensures delivery commitments align with squad capacity, technical complexity and architectural constraints. - Facilitates product discovery activities to validate customer needs, business outcomes and solution desirability before delivery investment decisions are made. - Drives prioritisation forums with stakeholders to resolve competing business priorities and establish clear delivery sequencing. - Aligns demand across multiple business units, ensuring optimal utilisation of shared platform capabilities and avoidance of duplicate solutions. - Establishes measurable business outcomes and success criteria for all product initiatives before delivery commences. - Ensures stakeholder commitments, business ownership, funding approvals and benefit realisation measures are in place for all approved demand. - Maintains visibility of future demand, capacity requirements and dependency impacts to support effective planning across the tribe. - Ensures operational support, service stability and production support obligations are incorporated into delivery planning. Competencies - Client and adviser centricity - Product management & backlog prioritisation - Digital journey design & optimisation - Strategic thinking - Business & commercial acumen - Stakeholder management & influencing - Requirements elicitation and analysis - Data-driven decision making - Communication & storytelling - Change leadership - Agile delivery & execution management - Cross-functional team leadership - Digital solution delivery - Risk, dependency & issue management - Customer experience focus - Decision making & problem Solving - Planning & prioritisation - Continuous improvement mindset