Senior Product Ownernew

About the role: The Change, Digital Delivery division is responsible for driving business growth at SJP by delivering strategic change, optimising core processes, and enhancing experiences for clients, Partners, and employees. The division oversees the successful delivery of key programmes and projects, ensures our technology platforms are secure and high-performing, and manages critical third-party suppliers. Acting as a key enabler of transformation, it plays a central role in building the systems and capabilities that power the future of the business. The Digital Product Team brings together specialist Product Owner teams aligned to key business capabilities. The function owns the digital tools and platforms that support the end‑to‑end financial advice process, working closely with a range of third‑party suppliers. Its focus is on delivering fit‑for‑purpose, intuitive products through strong user insight and active management of product and technology supplier roadmaps. The Senior Product Owner will take ownership of several complex products and/or provide deep expertise in a specific product area to deliver maximum business value. You will act as the bridge between stakeholders and development teams, ensuring the successful delivery of high-value products. You will be responsible for defining product requirements, prioritising backlogs, and ensuring that the team delivers products aligned with business goals and customer needs. What you’ll be doing Defining and articulating product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with the value stream’s OKRs. Creating, owning and maintaining the product backlog, delivering features aligned with business goals Managing multiple products within a portfolio, ensuring coherence and synergy across the product suite Providing vision, direction and assistance to the development teams. Ensuring the quality and user experience of the product, holding development and support teams to account for the delivery of that quality and experience. Conducting detailed market research and competitor analysis to inform product strategy and maintain a competitive edge About You: We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Owner who can build and maintain strong relationships and can work with business stakeholders to understand, inform and influence business and technology strategies. Essential Criteria: Ability to build strong relationships internally and externally, including tenacity in holding 3rd parties to account for delivery. Deep expertise in managing complex product lifecycles and delivering large-scale solutions Strong knowledge of Scrum theory and practices Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and able to liaise effectively at all levels within the business to understand, inform and influence business and technology strategies. Ability to clearly and concisely explain complex features and product visions to multiple stakeholders (including ‘what good looks like’, definition of done, MVP, and MMF) Experience working in financial services with a clear understanding of financial services and/or wealth management products. Proven experience unblocking delivery by tackling complex problems and influencing stakeholders. Strong knowledge of other development methodologies approaches Working knowledge of JIRA Relevant professional qualifications in Product Ownership, PRINCE2 or Agile methodologies. Desirable Criteria: Experience of Salesforce or other configuration-based software Experience of working in Value Streams