Product Owner - Climate Risk Lab, Enterprise Risk Platform

End Date
Wednesday 10 April 2024
Salary Range
£118,652 - £139,590
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Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
Responsible for the end to end delivery of a holistic product, project or service with the main goal of realising value for customers and stakeholders by ensuring that the lab and teams are working on solving the right problems. This is achieved by building collaborative, empowered teams, nurturing them to take ownership of the relevant outcomes. As well as stimulating innovation and mitigating risk by fostering data driven test and learn activities.
Job Description
Job title: Product Owner, Climate Risk Lab, Enterprise Risk Platform
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of our office hubs listed above
About this Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Product Owner to join the Risk Foundations Platform, leading the Climate Risk Lab. The Climate Risk Lab is a cross-functional team, who are bringing to bear groundbreaking technology to deliver insights that ensure the impacts of climate change on our customers and their financial resilience is understood and managed effectively.
Partnering with the Lab Engineering Lead, the Lab Product Owner will own the product vision and strategy, ensuring that - through continuous shaping and prioritisation of the product backlog - that the Lab teams are maximising the customer and business value that they deliver.
The Group is at a pivotal stage in delivering against its strategy; becoming increasingly proactive, forward-thinking, and efficient is key to ensuring we make good decisions to maintain what differentiates us in the market. This is an excellent opportunity to work at the core of one of the largest transformations in the industry.
What you’ll be doing:
The Product Owner has ownership of a single, sophisticated backlog containing different features, journeys and technology components.
This role strives to provide value to customers and collaborators by ensuring delivery teams focus on addressing the right issues. This involves encouraging collaboration and empowering teams to own outcomes, encourage innovation, and minimise risk through data-driven testing and learning.
Role Responsibilities

• Supports development of OKRs and provides product performance and benefit realisation data.
  
• Inputs into business 4YOP, customer plan and tech roadmap as required.
  
• Defines and prioritises epics, features and stories which support Product strategy.
  
• Crafts the Product Vision & owns the Product roadmap.
  
• Ensures change compliance for the overall Product.
  
• Accountable for supervising product change governance (e.g., CMIA / SPFIA activities) and business readiness activities (e.g., training and comms).
  
• Builds & leads capable teams that deliver quality improvements to the products that supports delivery of OKRs.
  
• Works collaboratively with other Product Owners and Integrators to manage dependencies.
  

What you'll need
Product Ownership - Accountable for platform backlog through leading cross functional teams to deliver simple and sophisticated changes. Ensures quality performance and innovation to deliver successful products. Demonstrates an excellent level of proven experience.
Stakeholder Management - Manages internal and external stakeholder expectations and business sponsorship, quickly establishing credibility and encouraging trust and ongoing collaboration. Anticipates and mitigates conflict and shapes stakeholder views to gain long-term dedication to current and potential future change.
Customer Centricity - Promotes value of customer outcomes with team and peers and ensures work efforts achieve these. Anticipates customer’s needs and uses customer input and steer to present targeted, coordinated, and outcome-focused solutions and opportunities.
Leadership & Culture - Uses situational judgement and experience to advise on a broad range of cultural topics (e.g., ethical leadership and accountability), using strategies such as deep listening to ensure the colleagues of the Bank are engaged. Understands the importance of change management in this space and works with the appropriate function to facilitate this.
Desirable

• Experience of using agile tooling e.g. JIRA & Confluence, and experience of leading & working as part of an agile team within an Enterprise Risk Function
  
• Experience of Climate Risk Management
  

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organization that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organizations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
  
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
  
• Share schemes including free shares
  
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
  
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
  
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
  

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.