Product Owner - Payroll

Zellis

  • Manchester
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 7 days ago
About the roleAs a Product Owner you be responsible for executing and delivering the roadmap defined by the Moorepay Product team in which you will play a key part. You will be pivotal to growing our products and services in line with our strategic business goals. Working alongside the wider product team, engineers and business stakeholders, you will identify, scope, define and deliver effective and innovative capabilities and improvements across our industry leading HCM and Payroll applications and services.You will be given a high degree of autonomy and responsibility to work with your engineering squad(s) on satisfying the needs and solving the challenges of our customers, whilst progressing the tactical and strategic plans of the business.In this role your key responsibilities will be:
  • Managing the Product Backlog: Creating, prioritising, and maintaining the product backlog, ensuring that it reflects the most valuable features and tasks.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements, provide updates, and manage expectations throughout the development process.
  • User Story Development: Writing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure they are clearly defined and actionable for the development team.
  • Prioritisation: Making decisions about the priority of features and tasks based on business value, user needs, and technical considerations.
  • Sprint Planning: Planning and coordinating sprints, including setting goals and monitoring velocity.
  • Sprint Ceremonies: Facilitating and participating in sprint ceremonies to help the team understand the priorities and goals for each sprint.
  • Voice of the customer: Being the voice of the customer, clearly understanding the challenges faced and being able to articulate them to other stakeholders
  • Review and Feedback: Reviewing completed work throughout the sprint cycle and providing feedback to ensure the product meets the desired quality and functionality.
  • Documentation: Clearly documenting new features and enhancements as part of your GTM activities, to ensure business readiness ahead of all releases.
  • Continuous Improvement: Continuously evaluating the product and development process, seeking opportunities for improvement and innovation.
Skills & experience
  • Ideally 2+ years’ experience in a BA or Product Owner/Manager role.
  • Experience in working in a product role with “off-the-shelf” SaaS solutions.
  • A passion for about building amazing products.
  • A proven ability to solve business and customer challenges.
  • A curious mindset, always seeking opportunities to learn and develop.
  • Self-starter, highly motivated and organised individual who takes end to end responsibility for thecompletion of required work.
  • Ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Structured approach to data-led decision making.
  • Ability to build strong relationships within your team, customers and partners.
  • A growth mindset, challenging team members to move to best practice and being open to learning from others.
  • Able to inspire and motivate the development team to achieve goals.
Desirable/advantageous:
  • Previous experience in HR/HCM/Payroll software and/or services
  • Experience of working with Azure DevOps
  • Experience working on integration projects
Benefits & culturePart of the Zellis Group, Moorepay is a team of over 500 friendly professionals across four offices in Swinton (Manchester), Sheffield, Birmingham and Kochi (India). We’re passionate about making Moorepay a fantastic place to work for every single one of our colleagues. The average length of service at Moorepay is 12 years, which speaks for itself!To help make Moorepay such a great place to work, we focus on three things in our company culture: mental health support, maintaining a healthy work/life balance, and equal opportunities and inclusion for all.Here’s what you’ll gain if you join our team:
  • A career packed with opportunity, in a stable and growing company.
  • A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
  • Competitive base salary.
  • 25 days annual leave, with the opportunity to buy more. You’ll even get your birthday off as well!
  • Private medical insurance.
  • Life assurance 4x salary.
  • Enhanced pension with up to 8.5% employer contributions.
  • A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.

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