Product Owner - Supply Chain

Posted 5 hours 48 minutes ago by Screwfix Direct Ltd

Permanent
Full Time
Other
Somerset, Yeovil, United Kingdom, BA201
Job Description
  • Trade House, Mead Avenue, Houndstone Business Park, Yeovil, BA22 8RT
  • Competitive
  • Permanent Full Time (37.5 hours) - Permanent

We're hiring a Product Owner - Supply Chain to take ownership of a critical product area within our Core Technology team. You'll play a key role in shaping how our supply chain platforms evolve, ensuring they deliver real value to the business and support our continued growth.

We're continuing to build out our Core Technology Product Team, and this role sits at the heart of how our supply chain platforms are delivered and supported. You'll operate with a high level of autonomy, owning prioritisation and trade-off decisions, while balancing business outcomes, delivery focus, and long term platform stability.

You'll shape a clear product roadmap, working closely with delivery teams and senior stakeholders across the business, translating complex supply chain requirements into meaningful, value driven outcomes. From inventory and logistics to end to end flow, you'll play a key role in enabling scalable, efficient operations.

You'll also help strengthen product ownership across enterprise technology, improving backlog governance and driving predictable, value led delivery, while working with modern platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365.

This role is hybrid working from our Yeovil Head Office.

Responsibilities
  • Act as the single point of product ownership for either the Finance or Supply Chain domain, with clear accountability for scope, priorities, and outcomes across that domain
  • Own the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for your assigned domain, ensuring alignment to business strategy and the transformation programme objectives.
  • Build strong relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders to understand priorities, dependencies, and constraints, translating these into clear, prioritised outcomes.
  • Collaborate with internal teams and third party partners to shape, plan, and deliver integrated solutions across the value stream.
  • Own and prioritise the product backlog, balancing business value, risk, technical complexity, and delivery capacity to maximise outcomes.
  • Work with business teams to define feature propositions, document assumptions, and shape minimum viable propositions (MVPs) that deliver value quickly and safely.
  • Agree, track, and report on delivery and outcome based metrics, ensuring progress and benefits realisation are visible to stakeholders.
  • Lead ongoing backlog refinement to ensure work is ready for upcoming sprints, adjusting scope and priorities based on delivery outcomes and learning.
  • Partner with Delivery Leads to plan releases, manage dependencies, and ensure delivery is aligned with wider business priorities and milestones.
  • Work closely with Solution Architects and engineering teams to align product direction with the target technical and architectural vision.
  • Understand and manage technical trade offs, ensuring complexity, risk, and stability are considered alongside business value in prioritisation decisions.
  • Track progress towards releases through structured planning, governance, and regular review of delivery milestones.
  • Collaborate with technology and business teams to prioritise defect resolution, balancing delivery momentum with platform stability.
  • Monitor, communicate, and champion value stream benefits, ensuring outcomes are realised and understood across delivery teams and stakeholders.
Qualifications
  • Strong ERP Product Owner experience in Supply Chain is essential; experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 is highly desirable
  • Strong analytical skills with experience owning complex enterprise systems and backlogs
  • Analytical with confident IT literacy and PC skills
  • Project management experience of IT related change/delivery within logistics
  • Strong team player who uses initiative and diplomacy when liaising with internal and external customers.
  • Strong influencing and facilitation skills
  • Strong networking and team working ability across all work levels.
  • Able to build, engage, lead and deliver using robust project methodology
  • Knowledge of agile working practices - desirable
  • Knowledge of agile working practices and retail industry experience - desirable
Benefits
  • Discretionary annual bonus up to 20%
  • 33 days' holiday (including bank holidays, 5 of which can be taken flexibly)
  • Flexible start and end times around core working hours
  • Buy More Holiday - eligible colleagues can boost their holiday allowance by up to one extra week
  • EV Car Scheme in Partnership with Tusker - eligible colleagues can lease a brand new or pre loved electric vehicle
  • Up to 14% employer pension contributions
  • Lifecover up to 4x your salary
  • Health cash plan and discounted gym memberships (up to 25% savings)
  • 20% discount at Screwfix and B&Q
  • Wagestream access to track earnings and save
  • Access to the Kingfisher Share Scheme
  • Exclusive offers and discounts via our Hapi app
  • Cycle to work scheme and savings on bikes
  • Career progression and development programmes
  • Coaching and mentoring to help you thrive
  • Access to wellbeing resources including PepTalk
Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we'll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we're a good fit for you. From there you can expect a comprehensive process, with regular contact from the Talent Acquisition team who are always available, for any queries you may have.

Sustainability at Screwfix

We're committed to building a better future for our community and our planet. That's why we're doing everything we can in six key areas: eliminating carbon emissions, reducing and recycling waste, sourcing responsibly, keeping products in use for longer, selling more sustainable products and providing sustainable packaging. We're on a mission to put sustainability at the forefront of everything we do. Join us.

Inclusion

We've worked hard to create a culture of inclusivity and genuine community. We're a company built on teamwork, and the best teams are ones in which everyone can share their view. Whatever your background, however you identify, you'll be listened to, encouraged, and given the tools and training you need to get ahead. You'll always know where you are with us. We're open. We're fair. And we believe in opportunities for everyone.

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