Senior Product Owner

Salary: £60,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience within the Employee Benefits and/or Life & Pensions industries.
• IT project management experience.
• Proven track record of building and maintaining internal relationships across different departments and countries.
• Technical development experience with a proven track record of delivery and exceeding business objectives.
• Experience of working within a commercial environment undergoing major change.
• Proven track record of delivering through prioritisation of resources and workload to achieve critical deadlines and business priorities.
• Experience of leading and managing teams across multiple sites.
• Experience of working with off-shore teams and 3rd-party suppliers.
• Experience in negotiation and conflict resolution.
• Proven track record of senior stakeholder management.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Propositions Manager, Lead PO and Implementations Leader on the future product strategy and roadmap for our Digital Products.
• Ensure our roadmaps are prioritised with the greatest business value and support the business in realising the expected benefits from software development.
• Lead as a Product Owner and set an example in interactions with Business Leaders, Technology and Implementations.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and senior stakeholders to deliver our integrated vision and strategy for Pension Administration applications across Aptia.
• Lead a team of Product Owners and Analysts through technical standards, Agile ways of working, problem solving, people development, recruitment and performance management.
• Partner with key stakeholders to define product strategy and prioritise the roadmap, including feature trade-off discussions.
• Prioritise the roadmap based on value and the delivery of a stable, compliant product, including business features and technical debt.
• Define and oversee delivery of the applications development roadmap and full product lifecycle for assigned products.
• Develop and embed a culture of ownership and delivery within the Product Owners and Implementation Analysts team.
• Ensure deliverables meet required quality criteria and are delivered on time and within budget across the product suite.
• Lead the team responsible for customer deliveries, configuration and product support activities.
• Define and implement an effective competency framework, KPIs and reporting framework to measure team performance.
• Develop technical capability by identifying skills gaps, resource requirements and learning opportunities.
• Ensure appropriate MI and controls exist to govern quality and accuracy of deliverables.
• Ensure systems, tools, resourcing, capability and capacity management support effective delivery.
• Ensure standards and quality assurance procedures are followed in the development of all deliverables.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering and other departments to resolve business-as-usual issues and deliver strategic improvements.
• Manage stakeholders across multiple locations and departments.
• Manage 3rd-party supplier relationships.

Technologies:

• Support
• Product Owner
• Security
• Backbone
• Mobile

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We are Aptia, a leading professional services firm founded to shape the future of pensions, health and insurance solutions and simplify complexity for businesses and individuals. We operate across the US, UK, India and Portugal, supporting over six million people and more than 1,100 clients with technology-led services that improve efficiency, financial security and peace of mind. We are investing heavily in learning and development to create unique career paths for our people, and we value being specialist, responsive and thoughtful. This is a hybrid Senior Product Owner position working from any of our UK offices, with London or Chichester preferred, alongside home working. We are committed to diversity, inclusion and equitable hiring, and the role is full time.

last updated 36 week of 2026