Product Owner- Core Branch Platform
- Contract duration: 3 months
- Location: 2 days per week in Central London or Chesterfield
- Start date: ASAP
- Pay range: £600.00- £650.00 per day/ Inside IR35
We are looking for an experienced Product Owner to join our client and own the strategy, roadmap and evolution of the core enterprise platform supporting a replacement programme. This role will help move the organisation from legacy branch systems to an SAP-centred platform and architecture, bringing together reconciliation, accounting, integration and orchestration capabilities across a complex landscape.
This is not a traditional digital Product Owner role focused on agile ceremonies or day-to-day squad management. The successful candidate will take an outcome-led approach to platform ownership, ensuring the right capabilities and integrations are in place so that the organisation, suppliers and branches are paid correctly.
Key responsibilities:
- Own and communicate the product strategy, roadmap and lifecycle for the Core Branch platform.
- Shape the evolution of the platform as part of the wider replacement programme.
- Oversee capabilities for reconciliation, accounting, transaction processing, integration and orchestration.
- Ensure effective integration across SAP, supplier products, APIs and other replacement systems.
- Work with business and technology stakeholders to define the right outcomes, prioritise work and articulate the value of proposed investment.
- Help establish the right delivery approach across multiple workstreams, suppliers and technical dependencies.
- Support solution discovery and design, ensuring the target architecture enables successful replacement of legacy branch systems.
- Drive value realisation and lifecycle management for a strategically important enterprise platform.
- Challenge suppliers and internal teams constructively where proposed solutions do not deliver the required outcome.
- Build strong working relationships with finance directors, architects, retail operations teams, business teams and delivery partners.
Essential experience and knowledge:
- Significant experience owning a core enterprise platform, processing platform or business-critical enterprise application.
- Strong Product Owner capability, including product strategy, roadmap development, prioritisation, value definition and outcome ownership.
- Experience of complex systems integration across multiple products, platforms and third-party suppliers.
- Knowledge of financial transaction processing, such as payment flows, settlement, reconciliation, card payments, cash management or settlement engines.
- Experience working on a large transformation programme or legacy-system replacement.
- Ability to operate across business, architecture, operations and supplier teams in a complex delivery environment.
- Experience using APIs and integration services to support third-party products and end-to-end customer and payment journeys.
- Strong stakeholder management and the confidence to question assumptions, challenge decisions and influence senior stakeholders.
- Hands-on, proactive and willing to get into the detail.
- Curious and unafraid to ask questions or challenge established thinking.
- Outcome-led, with a clear focus on business value rather than outputs alone.
- Comfortable working through ambiguity and coordinating across multiple workstreams and moving parts.
- A credible communicator who can connect technical, operational and commercial perspectives.
- Able to hit the ground running and establish direction quickly in a fast-moving transformation environment.
Desirable experience
- Experience of SAP within an enterprise platform or integration environment.
- Knowledge of SAP Business Technology Platform and its integration capabilities.
- SAP S/4HANA knowledge or experience, particularly in an organisation moving from ECC to S/4HANA.
- Experience in retail or another environment involving complex supplier products and transaction flows.
- Familiarity with SAP-centred architecture and platform modernisation.
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