Data Product Owner

Job Title

Data Product Owner

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category

Product Development - SF

Closing Date

26 September 2024

 

“Everything about Asda”

We are a values-led organisation. As such we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone’s input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

“Everything you’ll love”

• Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for your self and switch off
• 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year
• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us
• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year – really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page)
• Free city centre parking – you can also use it outside working hours

Plus, much more!

“That’s more like it”

LS Eleven is a new Asda division dedicated to the Asda Rewards Digital Loyalty Program, Asda Media Partnerships, Asda Money & Mobile, and Asda Group customer decision science. We are looking for a talented engineer to play a leading role in developing the data products which sit at the heart of Asda’s commercial and data strategies. Leveraging your hands-on coding skills as well as your leadership skills, you’ll be an expert individual contributor while managing and developing a small squad of BI engineers. Most importantly, working closely with the Data Product Lead, you will shape the technical strategy for engineering in LS Eleven.

About the role:

• Support the Digital Product Manager of your area, in the creation of epics and stories
• Support prioritisation of the product backlog, alongside the Digital Product Manager​
• Lead key agile ceremonies within the Product lifecycle during sprints​
• Coordinate activity with the other Digital Product Owners.​
• Full inhouse training will be provided and further opportunity of accredited courses for the right candidate.

About you:

• Help to shape and define the product backlog, gather customer or colleague needs, map process and capture functional designs​.
• Support optimisation of existing features, technology and systems, to ensure Asda continue to develop a culture of data and insight driven improvement​
• Support the delivery of new product development and product launches, supporting with colleague training and customer comms where required​.
• Working cross functionally across product initiatives, to seek opportunities to reduce costs and optimise quality​.
• Work with Digital Product Managers, Group Product Managers and other relevant stakeholders to support progress of the product developments and customer experience enhancements.
• ​Establish the key features of a product and use market trends and customer buying habits data to create specifications and prototypes​.
• Experience of product management, ideally within an Agile framework​.
• Experience of proactively completing product/feature discovery​.
• Examples of supporting research, driven by data and insight​.
• Confidence when speaking to others, with strong written communication.
• Uncompromising customer led approach​.
• Be comfortable with changing workloads and priorities​.
• Focus on delivering a quality outcome always, with the customer in mind.​

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Work Where it Works

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works.  This enables you to chose where you’ll be the most effective.  It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team. 
You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-

•    Discretionary company bonus
•    Company pension up to 7% matched
•    10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.
 
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves