Associate Product Owner – Scoring

at  CDP Global

Job Purpose and Background in summary
Are you passionate about delivering world class digital products which can contribute to a climate resilient, environmentally sustainable future? CDP are looking for an Associate Product Owner to join our Product Owner team and Scoring squad to provide a critical contribution to CDP’s mission. This is an excellent opportunity to make an impact on how digital products can provide relevant insights to organizations to drive real change.
You will utilise your skills in agile delivery methodologies, problem solving and stakeholder management to help with the discovery and delivery of our Scoring Products. The Scoring products enable the end to end delivery of scores to our customers with a focus on creation of the scoring logic, auto-calculation of scores and provision of an interactive Portal for manual scoring and checks to be carried out.
The role requires the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within CDP, to analyze complex requirements and to think critically and innovatively.

YOU WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Essential criteria:

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role within a Product-led organisation - a focus on scoring or natural language processing
• Familiarity with and experience of embedding industry best practices and trends in agile methodologies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with in-house employees from various functions, as well as technical teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Knowledge of data collection, survey methodologies and admin tools solutions.
• Ability to drive user adoption and provide training and support.
• Experience working with charities, NGOs, or similar organisations preferred
• Knowledge, interest, and passion for the environmental and / or sustainability space will be an advantage

This is a full time role based at CDP’s London office reporting to the Scoring Product Owner.
Salary and benefits: £45,000 - £60,000 per annum, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities and other benefits.
Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK. We cannot sponsor this role.

• Collaborate with internal users across the organisation to analyse their business needs, identify pain points, and develop the product roadmap aligned with internal goals and objectives.
• Create detailed user stories, process diagrams and other supporting documentation to ensure requirements are captured clearly and concisely
• Work within a squad using an Agile methodology to deliver value to users
• Work collaboratively between departments and technical teams, translating business requirements into well-understood technical specifications through to feature delivery.
• Conduct analysis to identify areas for optimization and improvement of authoring and scoring processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across different functions to ensure the authoring and questionnaire management system aligns with internal processes and enhances overall efficiency.
• Prioritise and resolve conflicting business needs and planning work increments accordingly
• Work effectively with change management to roll out changes
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in product and data provisioning, and recommend innovative solutions to improve user experience and system efficiency