Product Owner - Retail Pricing and Underwriting Systems

Product Owner - Actuarial Pricing and Underwriting Systems

Location: London City - Hybrid Working

Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time (35 hours)

Key Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision, epics and user stories to all stakeholders, working with the Retail Product Director and Retail Actuarial and Reinsurance leadership team.
• Define and monitor KPIs for the product in line with the agreed vision.
• Work with the Retail Product Director, Delivery Manager and programme management to manage squad budget and benefits definition and delivery.
• Work with the Retail Actuarial and Reinsurance leadership team to ensure programme delivery is aligned to internal risk policies (e.g. Model Risk) and external standards (e.g. TAS100).
• Collaborate with key stakeholders including demographic science, proposition, data, operations, distribution, engineering and design to deliver outstanding products.
• Collaborate with other product owners to ensure alignment with the overall vision of the wider transformation programme.
• Lead discreet work packages as part of the overall roadmap for the product to deliver defined benefits and KPIs.
• Prioritise product backlogs and roadmap initiatives based on business impact, stakeholder value and regulatory constraints.
• Collaborate with business readiness and impacted teams to ensure successful deployment of the product into live environment.
• Ensure programme milestones are met and deliverables are of high quality.

Skills and Experience

• Degree or professional equivalent, or significant experience in a similar role (essential).
• Significant experience as a Product Owner in B2B2C digital propositions or leading product ownership in transformation programmes.
• Previous experience working with Actuarial teams and pricing systems.
• Understanding of actuarial concepts e.g. cashflow modelling, present values (essential).
• Highly accurate and quality focused, with excellent attention to detail.
• Resilient and able to adapt, working hands on when required.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills and able to communicate to a range of stakeholders.
• Experience of working in a customer focused environment creating disruptive customer propositions.
• Highly organised with a high level of self motivation and enthusiasm to succeed.
• Ability to plan, manage & prioritise own workload, e.g. personal planning, organisation and ability to multi task to see a job through to conclusion.

Benefits

• A competitive salary, pension scheme and life assurance.
• 25 days annual leave plus an additional day on your birthday.
• Private medical cover and income protection.
• A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme.
• Opportunities to progress your career in role and within the company.
• Free access to the Headspace app, 24/7 employee assistance helpline and trained physical and mental health first aiders.
• A variety of employee funded benefits available via the online benefits portal.
• Additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones.

Diversity and Inclusion

We remain committed to our publicly disclosed HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter and Race at Work Charter targets and support a wide range of employee network and events, championing issues including intergenerational working, social mobility and neurodiversity.