Rewards Senior Product Owner

Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for an experienced Product Owner, Business Process Owner or operational leader who has successfully managed complex, business-critical processes in a large organisational environment.
• We need someone comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy, influencing senior stakeholders and taking ownership of outcomes across multiple teams and departments.
• Experience in product ownership, business process ownership or operational leadership.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional processes involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience working with data-driven processes and interconnected systems.
• Experience driving governance, controls, compliance and operational improvements.
• Experience leading delivery in matrix environments where influence is essential.
• Experience managing risks, dependencies and operational performance.
• Experience identifying root causes and implementing sustainable solutions.
• Experience influencing and challenging senior stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
• Experience using data and insight to support decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Experience delivering change and process transformation within large organisations.

Responsibilities:

• Take end-to-end ownership of the incentive scheme from data inputs through to final payment.
• Lead the monthly operational delivery cycle, ensuring accuracy and timely execution.
• Identify, investigate and resolve issues that impact delivery, consistency or accuracy.
• Work with operational, finance, data and technology teams to improve data quality and process effectiveness.
• Establish and embed governance, controls and validation processes.
• Manage risks, dependencies and stakeholder accountabilities across multiple functions.
• Provide insight into scheme performance, trends and areas for improvement.
• Deliver tactical improvements that reduce risk and improve reliability.
• Develop a longer-term roadmap for future enhancement and evolution of the scheme.

Technologies:

• Support
• Matrix
• Product Owner

More:

We are a large, customer-focused organisation undergoing significant operational transformation and continuous improvement. We are investing in strengthening key processes that directly impact colleague experience, operational performance and business outcomes. We are creating a new Senior Product Owner position to take ownership of a critical enterprise-wide incentive scheme. This is a highly visible permanent full-time role based in Bedfordshire, reporting into a senior operational leader and working across Operations, Finance, Data, IT and People functions. We offer a salary of 90,000 per annum plus a company bonus of up to 30%, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, private healthcare, income protection covering 75% of basic salary, a flexible benefits allowance of 5%, pension with up to 10% employer contribution, and life assurance.

last updated 36 week of 2026