Product Owner - Consultant - Digital Factory

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At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.
YOUR ROLEThis dynamic role requires product ownership expertise and a consultancy mindset. You will be required to balance business knowledge and stakeholder management with an understanding of products and how they operate.
We are in the Digital Factories tribe, part of Capgemini Invent's Business Technology unit. Our team is a growing and dynamic community of digital professionals. We're passionate about user-centred design, critical thinking, and innovative digital services and products.
As a Product Owner you will:
Be trusted to own the vision and influence the team to ensure that the client receives high-impact and value from each iteration.Understand business needs, IT constraints and priorities and be able to make decisions – the backlog is owned by you, and you play a crucial role with your BA to ensure it is correct.Have client-facing presence, with the ability to communicate clearly at sprint reviews.Work as a member of cross-functional agile squad, while also having skills required to step-in and support Business Analysts or Service Designers.As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:
Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.YOUR PROFILETo be considered for this position you must have:
Experience in a user-centred product or service development project.Ideally - Experience working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards, using GDS design principles.Vast knowledge and understanding of agile delivery.A passion for working with cross-functional business and IT teams to deliver business outcomes.The ability to make decisions on business priority, working with business analysts to ensure your requirements are known, defined and able to be built and delivered.Willingness to help the scrum team, often playing a role as a business analyst, scrum master or service designer if the circumstances dictate it – we believe strongly in a balanced squad model, where our agile delivery team members are multi-skilled.Influence and leadership to steer our digital delivery projects, working with our leaders in Capgemini and our clients.Commitment to professional development, with relevant agile certifications such as PSPO and / or PSM.WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?We are delighted to have received the "Glassdoor Best Places to work UK' accolade for 4 consecutive years. Capgemini Invent offers Consultants a culture of learning, ownership, and focus on value.
You'll gain exposure to high-profile transformations and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies.Our consultants are formally trained by industry experts in consulting and client delivery. Consultants have access to a vast array of different training and certifications in a variety of areas: cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Java, Kotlin, NodeJS, Spring Boot), DevOps (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker), Cybersecurity (CISSP, CISM) and Agile delivery (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile Framework). Capgemini Invent offers you the flexibility to develop various areas of knowledge in technical domains aligned both to your interests and our client's outcomes.Les Fontaines: Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside of Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought-leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities that will help us and our clients to succeed.We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients.There are monthly team drinks, and it's a chance to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. The monthly team breakfasts give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.NEED TO KNOWAt Capgemini we don't just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work.
We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.
Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
CSRWe're also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we're working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone's access to a digital world. It's something we're really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world's most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a team that does the right thing.
Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.
We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.
In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK. ABOUT CAPGEMINICapgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.
Ref. code 119261-en_GB
Posted on 26 Nov 2024
Experience level Experienced Professionals
Contract type Permanent
Location London, Manchester, Glasgow
Business unit INVENT
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