Product Owner - Mid Corporate Technical Delivery
Guildford, ENG, GB, GU2 8XG
Role Description
The Senior Product Owner role will be accountable for maximizing the data value, enabled by BMP deliveries, for the Commercial Technical teams – Pricing, Portfolio Steering, Customer Analytics, and Data Enrichment – aligned to the Mid-Corporate Property/Casualty line of business.
You will act as the voice of Technical stakeholders and end-customers, guiding Technical Initiatives (projects) and data delivery teams through the BMP life-cycle from concept to delivery.
Your role will involve evaluation of opportunities, setting the direction for Initiatives and the ‘Omega’ Mid-Corporate data delivery squad, and prioritizing development through a well-managed product backlog.
This role will be hybrid from our Guildford office.
Salary Information
Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.
About You
As the Product Owner, you will be responsible for:
Stakeholder Management:
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- Collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders, including Technical, Underwriting, Architecture, Data, Claims, Information Security, Data Protection, IT & Change, to gather input and feedback
- Represent the Mid-Market Portfolio Steering objectives and requirements within BMP Initiatives during the delivery life-cycle
- Perform role of Product Owner for the Mid-Corporate Omega data delivery squad - manage stakeholder understanding of product functionality and regularly demo progress
- Liaise between Mid-Corporate business, BMP Programme, and Data function stakeholders to ensure alignment and integration
Program Increment (PI) Planning and Backlog Maintenance:
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- Maintain awareness of BMP and Technical portfolios to ensure Initiatives support business objectives and goals
- Prepare for Program Increment planning by inputting to roadmap, requirements definition and content presentations
- Actively engage in user story definition, providing clarifications to enable the Omega data delivery squad to create estimates and sequencing
- Define and prioritize work in team backlogs, ensuring visibility, clarity, and refinement ahead of sprint planning
Omega squad engagement:
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- Influence the squad to engage with backlog refinement and user story writing
- Confirm the definition of "Done" aligns with expectations and ensure quality of deliver.
- Work closely with the Scrum Master to ensure the team is on track to deliver key dates
- Align with fellow Product Owners, Business Owners, and Programme Leads to ensure design, build, and test cycles are aligned
Decision Making and Escalation:
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- Leads and Sign off on all development work as Initiatives move through the life-cycle
- Be available for day-to-day decision-making within the Omega data delivery squad, providing quick, concise decisions
- Escalate deviations/blockers/dependencies to ensure company visions are met
Specific Attributes:
- Support a proof-of-concept for the development of the Allianz Data Platform (ADP)
- Progress the business case for strategic Mid-Corporate data build for the Technical function
- Input to the development of an Allianz Commercial Enrichment strategy and roadmap
- Immerse in short-term Mid-Market Portfolio Steering data improvements, in order to carry learnings into future BMP developments
Essential Skills
We don't expect you to know everything from day one, but the following will enable you to hit the ground running:
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex information simply and influence stakeholders
- Strong technical understanding of general insurance end-to-end processes and products
- Experience working with external parties as part of product roadmap delivery
- Exposure to databases/data warehousing, SQL, ETL patterns, and GDPR
- Leadership skills to motivate and inspire others, challenging the status quo when necessary.
- Self-motivated and driven to deliver, with a risk-based approach to decision-making.
- Basic understanding of Agile methodology, with experience using frameworks like Scrum and Kanban, and supporting tools such as JIRA and Confluence
Desirable Skills
- Business acumen and an understanding of the insurance or financial services environment.
- A high degree of data and numerical ability, with confidence working with internal and external data sources.
- Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage
We support the government scheme “Access to Work” please feel free to ask us about the access to work scheme.
What We Will Offer You
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Hybrid working
- Annual performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
- Retail discounts
- Volunteering days
Our Ways of Working
Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.
Integrity, Fairness, Inclusion & Trust
At Allianz, we believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation, is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.
We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.
We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.
Accessible Application for All
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.
Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.
For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Matthew Mckevitt
Closing date 17/04/26
We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.
95222 | Product Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent
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