Data Product Owner

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Driven to achieve commercial performance and sales performance with self-motivation to deliver.
• Customer focused, with the ability to expand knowledge of customer needs and help shape understanding through personas aligned to Data Culture and Data Literacy initiatives.
• Strategic thinker with natural problem-solving ability in complex environments.
• Naturally inquisitive, with a desire to gain deep knowledge about the market landscape, competitor value propositions, and key trends.
• Highly driven, with the ability to evangelise and build excitement for the data strategy.
• Ability to partner and influence effectively across all levels of an organisation.
• Excellent communicator and storyteller, able to communicate concepts and ideas to stakeholders at all levels in different forms depending on context.
• Ability to communicate complex data and arguments in a way that is accessible to everyone.
• Understanding of key operational compliance aspects, including Treat Customer Fairly and Financial Conduct Authority / regulatory compliance.
• Strong team leadership skills with the ability to inspire, develop, engage, and motivate colleagues to perform.
• Proven coaching and mentoring skills, with the ability to manage performance, hold difficult conversations, and give constructive and motivational feedback.
• Ability to set standards for behaviour, culture, and performance and ensure they are embedded within the area of responsibility.

Responsibilities:

• Own and drive data products and services from inception to completion, including backlog management and prioritisation, continuous iteration, and ensuring delivery runs smoothly, on time, within budget, and meets commercial targets.
• Lead a cross-functional team to deliver new propositions to the market.
• Work closely with support teams across Customer & Product Transformation, IT, and local business teams to identify the resources, skills, and training required to develop and integrate products.
• Engage with, guide, and support the Senior Leadership Team and Board of Management to build understanding and buy-in for necessary data products, including any monetary investment required.
• Fully own backlog prioritisation to maintain the product roadmap, including prioritisation between new functional capabilities and addressing technical debt.
• Work with HQ to understand and influence the VWFS technology and data platform roadmaps so required technical capabilities are available in time to support commercial requirements.
• Manage, coach, engage, motivate, and develop the team directly or through the matrix structure, role-modelling effective people leadership and enabling a positive and inclusive culture.
• Support the shaping and execution of the Data Strategy and Target Operating Model by promoting innovation using available techniques such as proof of value and prototyping.
• Maintain close control of the Data Product Team budget, expenditure, and financial forecast.
• Define, measure, and track realisation of benefits from data products.
• Ensure data products adhere to data governance, data quality, and analytics governance standards.
• Monitor adoption metrics and continuously improve usability and value by gathering user feedback to iterate and enhance data product functionality.

Technologies:

• Embedded
• Support
• Matrix
• Product Owner

More:

We are recruiting for a Data Product Owner role based in Milton Keynes, with two days a week on site. The role is inside IR35 and requires a credit check at interview stage. This is a commercial, cross-functional data product leadership position where we work closely with teams across Customer & Product Transformation, IT, local business teams, HQ, and senior leadership to deliver data products, support the data strategy, and drive measurable business value. We also ask that candidates remain alert to suspicious outreach and contact us via the ManpowerGroup website if needed.

last updated 34 week of 2026