Description
The Associate Director, Product Owner - Workday Integrations is responsible for maximising the value of their product (Workday Integrations) by translating business needs into a prioritised backlog and leading delivery across the HR product lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand functional needs, refine requirements, and define product outcomes that support business priorities.
- Own and manage the Product backlog, ensuring requirements are well-defined and supported by minimum data inputs.
- Make prioritisation decisions for the Product backlog based on value, cost, risk, business continuity, and resource capacity.
- Lead the Product team’s delivery activities, guiding Associate Product Owners and working with Engineers, Architects, and Testers.
- Drive operational readiness by applying a delivery readiness checklist.
- Define and maintain the Product performance dashboard, tracking adoption, cycle time/throughput, stability/defects, UX signals, and support effort.
- Ensure product changes follow required security controls, risk assessments, data handling policies, and regulated change processes.
- Support Solution Architects to assess design options and manage cross-Product dependencies.
- Act as an escalation point for the HR Product team and business users on functional product issues.
- Contribute to the improvement of delivery practices within the Product.
- Lead your team in using approved AI tools to improve productivity and ways of working.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering).
- 15 to 19 years of experience working in product delivery, digital solutions, business systems, or process-led technology roles.
- Knowledge of functional domains within Workday and broader HR technology ecosystem.
- Deep technical expertise over Workday Integrations.
- Proven experience defining and prioritising functional requirements and managing a product backlog.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate needs into feasible, value-led technology changes.
- Demonstrated ability to make prioritisation decisions based on business value, process impact, risk, cost, and technology constraints.
- Experience leading delivery teams or analysts through the product lifecycle.
- Familiarity with enterprise governance requirements.
- Exposure to continuous improvement approaches.
- Experience working within agile delivery environments.
This role operates under GSK's "Performance with Choice" hybrid working approach, typically expecting 2–3 days per week in the office.