Digital Product Owner

Leicester, Leicestershire
City Plumbing

We’re accelerating our Digital plans by recruiting for a new Product Owner to join our IT team.

It is an exciting time here at City Plumbing. We have recently become a stand-alone business and need Digital Product Owners to help make us the best Online Builders’ merchants to both our trade and consumer customers!

There is a lot to do, and you’ll be involved in the full Product Ownership cycle.

Could this be you? Read on to find out more!

The Role:

This is a brilliant opportunity to join a fast-paced and agile Product team that is creating new and interesting ways for our customers to engage online with our product range.

Having recently become a standalone business (we’re now known as the Highbourne Group), we have committed to a digital transformation so our customers can engage and transact effortlessly across our eCommerce platforms.

This means you’ll work within a team of 12 Product Owners, and your work will have a real tangible impact across our digital platforms!

Areas of focus include:

• Working collaboratively across a shared vision communicating progress and development timescales to various stakeholders.

• Defining objectives and measuring their benefits to ensure we deliver world-class digital experiences.

• Own our Product roadmaps and manage the expectations of all dependencies involved.

• Break down complex problems into manageable and achievable initiatives ensuring your champion the needs of the customer at all times.

• Understanding the outcome of roles assigned to you – reaching out to other members when support is needed.

This is a remote-based role with quarterly travel to Team meetings.

You should be based in the UK and our Head Office is based in Crick, Northamptonshire.

This means you could be from areas such as Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Chesterfield, Corby, Coventry, Hinckley, Kettering, Leamington Spa, Leeds, Leicester, London, Loughborough, Lutterworth, Market Harborough, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Northampton, Nuneaton, Oundle, Oxford, Peterborough, Rugby, Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Warwick, Wellingborough.

You:

You’ll live and breathe our digital-first ethos, with an analytical and commercial approach. You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider team and you’ll be committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Required skills and competencies:

• Experience in delivering digital product solutions for a customer-focused business.

• Experience in working in a digital environment and executing agile delivery methods.

• Demonstrable experience in bringing products to market and the management of the full end-to-end product development process.

• A focus on results, with excellent interpersonal skills to keep people energised, positive, and focussed on delivering value.

• A strong understanding of the technical architecture of complex web applications.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Product Owner, Online Product Owner, Digital Product Manager, IT Product Owner, UX, UI, User Experience, Agile Environments, Scrum Master, Jira, eCommerce, Retail, FMCG, Online, Online Trading.

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! Our ambitious future plans mean that you are joining the business at a really exciting time – having recently been part of a sale process you would be joining City Plumbing Supplies (CPS) at a really exciting point in our journey to becoming a standalone business, independent of Travis Perkins.

We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future! We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits package & cultural environment include;

• Discount platform including savings and cash back at numerous retailers

• Savings on driving lessons, phone bills, gym memberships as well as further benefits

• Life assurance

• Family feel, extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more

• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, let’s be there for each other

• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development

• Financial Education & Loans

• Flexible working options

• Striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. #BelongWithUs