Product Owner I

at  Liberty Specialty Markets

DESCRIPTION & REQUIREMENTS

Role Title: Product Owner 1
Department: Business Agility - Risk Rating & Pricing Portfolio
Team: Business Agility – Underwriting Domain
Location: London
Type: Permanent
About the Role:
The Product Owner works as part of an agile team representing the voice of the customer and the organisation to deliver business change outcomes. They carry out requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation tasks to ensure that the outcomes are the ideal solution for the business.
As part of the Agile delivery team they will help to ensure ongoing continuous improvement through the identification and championing of new standards and toolsets.
About the Department & Team:
The Business Agility Team for Risk Rating and Pricing Portfolio is led by the Head of Underwriting Domain for Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) and delivers innovative solutions and capabilities that leverage our business understanding, technical expertise, and partnerships to enable market-leading performance across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct analysis work to a consistently high standard within a range of business areas, producing output to agreed timescales, and standards
• Conduct analysis work to understand current state processes and to identify the “to be” future state operating models through process and technology
• Identify the relationships, dependencies and impacts of change (highlighting options) on multiple systems and processes
• Contribute to the project as required to develop proposals, requirements or other project documentation.
• Elicit further requirements and test / challenge assumptions using a variety of methods including interviews, document analysis, workshops and business process descriptions
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Stakeholder management – support the Delivery Lead and Product Owner to interact with all levels of management, obtain buy in and sign off and manage expectations
• Contribute to the Business Solutions Team development of standards / methodology for capturing and publishing business processes, requirements and other documentation
• Defining and documenting epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, etc for complex solutions
• Work effectively as part of a project team alongside the Product Owner, Scrum master and delivery team
• Accurately identify and estimate deliverable efforts and commitments
• Contribute to team sprint planning and set expectations for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Participate in team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
• Support the use of product level KPIs to drive product decisions.
• Support creating and maintaining the backlog (including prioritization, and acceptance criteria).
• Adhere at all times to company policies, procedures and standards

Skills and Experience:

• Experience working as a Business Analyst in agile software delivery environments (preferred)
• Experience defining and documenting epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, etc for complex solutions (preferred)
• Business analysis experience and knowledge of business analysis methodologies
• Experience of Reinsurance (preferred) and/or Insurance business processes and technology solutions
• Experience working on rating and pricing projects and knowledge of pricing systems such as hx Renew
• Strong knowledge of rating and pricing business functions, process and operations, objectives and strategies
• Good knowledge of MS Excel to help with requirements gathering and demonstrating concepts
• Documentation of management systems & workflow application experience
• General knowledge of IT concepts, strategies and methodologies, including architectural and security concepts, systems development lifecycle, information management and portfolio management (production systems, release planning, change management)
• BPMN or similar business process modelling skills
• Experience with any of the following systems is advantageous:

o Genius
o IRIS
o Salesforce

o DMS

• Ability to work independently as well as harmoniously in teams
• Demonstrated ability to communicate both in business and technical terms
• Ability to work to deadlines and to meet standards
• Excellent presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working with ‘C’ level stakeholders
• Flexible and pragmatic

About Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM)
Liberty Specialty Markets is part of Global Risk Solutions and the broader Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, which is a leading global insurer. We offer a breadth of world-class insurance and reinsurance services to brokers and insureds in all major markets.

Our people are key to our success. That is why “Put People First” is one of the five Liberty values which unite us as a global organisation. We bring this to life for our colleagues through:

• Offering a vibrant and inclusive environment and committing to their career development.
• Promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Our Inclusion Matters framework and employee-led networks strengthen the diversity of our workforce and our inclusive environment.
• Reinforcing that collaborating together to share our unique perspectives help us make better decisions, deliver innovative solutions and pursue our ambitious goals.
• A supportive culture, which includes promoting a healthy work-life balance and working flexibly.

For more information, please follow the links below:
https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/working-for-us
https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing/diversity-and-inclusion

• Conduct analysis work to a consistently high standard within a range of business areas, producing output to agreed timescales, and standards
• Conduct analysis work to understand current state processes and to identify the “to be” future state operating models through process and technology
• Identify the relationships, dependencies and impacts of change (highlighting options) on multiple systems and processes
• Contribute to the project as required to develop proposals, requirements or other project documentation.
• Elicit further requirements and test / challenge assumptions using a variety of methods including interviews, document analysis, workshops and business process descriptions
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Stakeholder management – support the Delivery Lead and Product Owner to interact with all levels of management, obtain buy in and sign off and manage expectations
• Contribute to the Business Solutions Team development of standards / methodology for capturing and publishing business processes, requirements and other documentation
• Defining and documenting epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, etc for complex solutions
• Work effectively as part of a project team alongside the Product Owner, Scrum master and delivery team
• Accurately identify and estimate deliverable efforts and commitments
• Contribute to team sprint planning and set expectations for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Participate in team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
• Support the use of product level KPIs to drive product decisions.
• Support creating and maintaining the backlog (including prioritization, and acceptance criteria).
• Adhere at all times to company policies, procedures and standard