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Lead Product Owner

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Description

Drive the product vision and strategy across the organisation ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs. Lead Product Owners ensure delivery of key strategic initiatives to embrace a customer journey led approach and unlock high quality business capabilities that drive business and customer value.

Accountabilities:

  • Define & Execute Product Strategy: Accountable for developing, defining & executing a comprehensive product strategy that aligns with the business and company’s overall vision.
  • Drive Product Innovation: Lead initiatives to innovate and evolve product offerings by staying ahead of market trends, customer needs, and emerging technologies.
  • Oversee Product Development Lifecycle: Accountable for overseeing the entire product development lifecycle, from concept to launch.
  • Oversee Product Goals and Performance: Accountable for defining clear objectives and key outcomes to steer the product vision and ensure alignment with company’s business goals.
  • Customer-Centric Focus: Drive a customer – first approach across the product vision.
  • Stakeholder Communication and Management: Lead collaboration between cross-functional teams and act as the key liaison between the product organisation and senior leadership.
  • Manage and Develop Product Teams: Accountable for mentoring, and developing high-performing product teams.
  • Risk and Control: Managing risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to resolve or mitigate and escalate as necessary those risks.
  • Domain Expertise: Demonstrates deep understanding of relevant domain.

Director Expectations:

  • To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
  • They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business.
  • Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function.
  • Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.

Key Requirements:

  • Strong expertise in Fraud and AML products, services, processes and technology.
  • Define and drive strategic product vision for Value Streams.
  • Ensure product strategy aligns with business goals, customer needs and market opportunities.
  • Provide leadership across product, technology and business stakeholders to maximise value delivery.

Key Skills:

  • Product strategy and vision leadership.
  • Customer-centric product management.
  • Business value management and outcome orientation.
  • Enterprise stakeholder management and executive communication.

Skills

Required

  • Fraud and AML products
  • product strategy
  • customer-centric product management
  • business value management
  • enterprise stakeholder management
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