JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB DESCRIPTION
Associate Product Owner
Associate Product Owner
Because your new ideas are our way new ways of working. Evolve, your way.
An Associate Product Owner is required in the Checkout Product Team here in Primark.
This role sits within the technology function within Primark and is responsible for understanding and owning of Primark’s EPOS solution as a product, driving change, managing the product backlog, defining user stories and will be the primary contact with the various suppliers and stakeholders to ensure that the requirements of Primark are prioritised and achieved.
The associated product owner will work collaboratively and closely with key stakeholders incl. strategic partners, senior stakeholders within technology and across the wider business function within Primark.
As part of the role, the successful candidate will work within a larger programme which is replacing Primark’s current EPOS Solution with a more modern, innovative and user friendly solution.
Working closely with a variety of stakeholders across, Technology, the business, partners and suppliers, the role requires strong communication and influencing skills, to ensure effective engagement with a diverse senior stakeholder group
What You’ll Get
People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best.
Let’s talk lifestyle: Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.
What You’ll Do as a Associate Product Owner
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:
Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:
About Primark
At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.
If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request, during your recruitment journey, such as extended time or breaks between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, mobility access, or assistive technology please contact your talent acquisition specialist.
All offers of employment are subject to background checks, including right to work, reference education and for some roles criminal, and financial checks. If you have any concerns, please reach out to our talent acquisition team to discuss.
BR Req Number 142995BR
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Because your new ideas are our way new ways of working. Evolve, your way.
An Associate Product Owner is required in the Checkout Product Team here in Primark.
This role sits within the technology function within Primark and is responsible for understanding and owning of Primark’s EPOS solution as a product, driving change, managing the product backlog, defining user stories and will be the primary contact with the various suppliers and stakeholders to ensure that the requirements of Primark are prioritised and achieved.
The associated product owner will work collaboratively and closely with key stakeholders incl. strategic partners, senior stakeholders within technology and across the wider business function within Primark.
As part of the role, the successful candidate will work within a larger programme which is replacing Primark’s current EPOS Solution with a more modern, innovative and user friendly solution.
Working closely with a variety of stakeholders across, Technology, the business, partners and suppliers, the role requires strong communication and influencing skills, to ensure effective engagement with a diverse senior stakeholder group
What You’ll Get
People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best.
Let’s talk lifestyle: Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.
What You’ll Do as a Associate Product Owner
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:
- Responsible for ensuring all features & functions to be delivered align with that of Checkout strategy.
- Responsible for ensuring all User Interface Changes to the product have been signed off and agreed amongst all internal and external stakeholders.
- Responsible for ensuring that all software changes made to the product, adhere to Primark Standard Business Processes – any deviation from standard will need to be signed off in advance.
- Responsible for Enterprise Integration – ensuring any changes to the product aligns to existing or establishes new system integrations
- Manage partners in terms of software bug fixes and defect resolution to the product.
- Manage any technical debt that may exist through the product life cycle.
- Responsible for ensuring system stability and availability is maintained
- Responsible for ensuring all product reporting adheres to Primark requirements
- Understanding user needs, how the business works and driving the development of the product through clear prioritisation. Envisaging and understand the final product and convey the value it creates and what problems it solves
- Work with the Checkout Management Product Owner and Head of Product to define, prioritise and break the feature backlog into stories, including clarification and acceptance criteria
- Understand Agile estimation approaches and support the delivery team in being self-managing
- Support our transformation by proactively educating colleagues within technology and wider Primark about agile methodologies and product ownership
- Support the delivery of products from wireframes to product launch to measuring engagement, working closely with the engineering team
Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:
- Over 3 years’ experience in business relationship management in an IT environment
- Retail Enterprise systems experience, ownership or delivery of a minimum of 3 years.
- Industry or functional expertise validated through experience working for a mid to large retailer
- Ability to clearly articulate the evolution of products through design thinking and user story mapping
- An appropriate degree, equivalent qualification or experience
- Preferably a certification in Agile Product Ownership, Scaled Agile or equivalent
About Primark
At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.
If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request, during your recruitment journey, such as extended time or breaks between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, mobility access, or assistive technology please contact your talent acquisition specialist.
All offers of employment are subject to background checks, including right to work, reference education and for some roles criminal, and financial checks. If you have any concerns, please reach out to our talent acquisition team to discuss.
BR Req Number 142995BR
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