We have an exciting opportunity for a Product Owner (Grade 11) to join the Settlement & Insight team on a permanent basis.

Team Overview:
The Settlement & Insight team is accountable for the entirety of Elexon’s technology product portfolio, specifically the development of the products in line with strategic, industry and customer needs. Using customer (internal and external) feedback we look to enhance our products utilising best practice product owner and continuous improvement methodologies.

Job Purpose:
The Product Owner is accountable for delivering customer value. They do this by defining and prioritizing product features and user stories, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring their product aligns with both strategic business goals and customer needs. They manage the product backlog/s, making critical decisions, and working closely with stakeholders to deliver successful product/s supporting Elexon’s Services and Value Streams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage product/s roadmaps and backlogs, prioritising defects, features, and technical debt tasks, in alignment with Service requirements, Industry and Programme change requirements, and Elexon's strategic objectives
• Accountable for the planning and management of the product change budget and value delivery against same
• Accountable for Business cases, ensuring they follow Elexon governance and best practice standards, demonstrating expected outcomes and benefits, including the creation and ownership of benefit realisation plan
• Accountable for Stakeholder Management of internal and external customers (Product Owners, Service Owners, Participants, Regulatory bodies) in matters relating to the technical products they own
• Work closely to the product delivery team/s, inputting and leading (where appropriate) all relevant Agile ceremonies
• Accountable for defining and owning the Product’s vision and strategy, accounting for cross product dependencies
• Accountable for Elexon’s product strategy by creating common practices, knowledge sharing forums, communities across Elexon to remove barriers across products
• Accountable for best practice recording of Epics, Features and User Stories in Azure DevOps
• Contributes to the continuous improvement of Product Delivery Team velocity and efficiency
• Accountable for accuracy in sizing of Epics (ROM) and Features
• Must continuously develop your own knowledge of owned Products and customer use cases, value definition and realisation

Capabilities and competencies:
Critical:

• Ability to develop tailored Business Design approaches to problems, including definition and management of scope.
• A good understanding of IT systems, infrastructures and emerging technologies.
• Effective communicator with good interpersonal skills to build effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders.
• Ability to resolve complex issues, through evaluation, fact-finding and logical reasoning.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement through backlog prioritisation to realise efficiencies in processes/system improvement.
• Able to manage a Product budget with cost management and financial planning, to ensure benefits are delivered and realised.
• Contribute to effective delivery of the fixed capacity resource to deliver measurable business value and benefit.
• Ability to work in collaboration with the Service Owner and team to deliver a stable and efficient BSC Service.
• Agile change delivery techniques

Developmental / Desirable:

• Knowledge of other Products systems, designs and interactions/dependencies
• Knowledge of BSC Procedures including Settlements, Credit Arrangements, Industry Standing Data, Customer Assets (Balancing Mechanism Units (BMU’s)).
• A good understanding of the GB (Great Britain) Electricity arrangements.

Elexon career path / Potential next role(s):

• Product Owner Practice Lead
• Head of role

In return, Elexon provides:

• £73,000
• 28 days annual holiday + Bank Holidays
• Discretionary annual incentive scheme
• Life assurance
• Pension
• Private medical (Bupa)
• Private dental (Bupa)

At Elexon, our employee wellbeing is particularly important to us, which is why we are proud to provide:

• Hybrid working - 2 days per week at our London office
• BUPA health check
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Subsidised gym membership
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Buying & selling holiday scheme
• Computing scheme
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) days
• Season ticket loan

We believe a diverse and inclusive culture allows innovation and creativity to flourish. We are committed to continuously improving our culture for our colleagues and stakeholders. Through our hugely successful Diversity Forum, Mental Health First Aid network and regular programme of activities and events, we celebrate difference and recognise the value of employee wellbeing, which is a consistent outcome from annual employee surveys that we conduct. Likewise, as a community, we like to support each other, and all agree Elexon is a great place to work with a great workspace too!

At Elexon, we want to:

• Provide true equality of opportunity
• Attract and retain diverse talent
• Listen to all voices
• Be representative of the communities we work in
• Be a role model for Diversity and Inclusion in the industry

Elexon together, embracing differences, listening to all voices