Product Owner

Job description

ENGIE is a leading energy and services company focused on three key activities: production and supply of energy, services and regeneration. Our 17,000 employees combine these capabilities for the benefit of individuals, businesses and communities throughout the UK & Ireland.

We enable customers to embrace a lower carbon, more efficient and increasingly digital world. Our customers benefit from our energy efficient and smart building solutions, the provision of effective and innovative services, the transformation of neighbourhoods through regeneration projects, and the supply of reliable, flexible and renewable energy.

ENGIE improves lives through better living and working environments. We help to balance performance with responsibility, enabling progress in a harmonious way.

Globally, the ENGIE Group employs 160,000 people worldwide and achieved revenues of €60.6 billion in 2018.

ENGIE are recruiting for a Product Owner to be based at  Engie Riverbridge House, Dartford, DA2 6SL. This is a 12 months Fixed Term Contract role full-time role working 37.5 h ours per week. On offer is a competitive salary, bonus and benefits package.

General Overview:

The Product Owner will be responsible for effectively conveying the wants and needs of the clients and the business directly to the development teams. The Product Owner will be responsible for product requirements, engaging with teams to understand market and system needs, and ultimately delivering quality software to help the company generate revenue and/or reduce costs. The Product Owner will lead the product roadmap initiatives through the software development cycle, including design, development, testing, documentation, release and training. 

 

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

·  Conveys the vision of the products we are building to the scrum team through their ownership of the product backlog.
·  Uses epics, features, product vision and market needs to refine user stories and requirements into clear, workable product requirements
·  Leads team in analysing business needs and technology choices
·  Prioritizes backlog to support product roadmap, and according to business value
·  Participates in daily scrum meetings, and supports development team's ongoing questions, concerns, and feedback

Required Qualifications, Skills or Experience:

·  Ability to travel to the United States at least 50% of the time
·  Bachelor's degree in science or business, or equivalent
·  Experience in SCRUM Agile methodology (essential)
·  2-5 years in software development and/or technology management / analysis
·  Excellent verbal and written communication skills
·  Experience in data management (desirable)
·  Pragmatic Marketing training (desirable)
·  Scrum training preferred (desirable)
·  Knowledge: Energy markets, energy procurement, energy supply contract structures, utilities (desirable)

For more information about ENGIE, please visit:

http://www.engie.com/en/candidates-area/

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. There is no re-location package with this job role. ENGIE do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The ENGIE Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to ENGIE Managers.

Additional Information
·  Posting Date: Jan 9, 2020