Product Owner

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

We're looking for a Product Owner to join Legal & General Mortgage Services in Barnsley, on a 6 month fixed-term contract!

You'll take ownership of a software product throughout its lifecycle, ensuring the product we create meets the needs of the business and our customers as well as being secure, efficient and performant.

What you'll be doing:

• Working with the Programme Manager, Product Manager & stakeholders to define and communicate a product vision and roadmap that aligns with the product & company strategy
• Managing the product backlog, including prioritisation and refinement in line with stakeholder needs to improve existing products
• Working with Internal and external stakeholders to develop and define requirements for product features so they are clearly understood and ready to go into a development sprint
• Working with the Programme Manager and Product Manager to measure product performance through analytics, feedback and quality metrics to ensure the product continues to deliver both customer and commercial value
• Acting as an ambassador for existing products both internally and externally as primary contact for queries relating to the product
• Acting as primary contact between internal and external stakeholders, setting realistic expectations, and ensuring the communication of the progress
• Managing business readiness plans to ensure smooth and timely delivery from both an internal and external perspective

Who we're looking for:

• Good knowledge of the UK mortgage market
• Demonstrable knowledge of Agile methodology and software development practices
• Strong customer focus
• Solid people skills - building effective working relationships across internal business areas and external stakeholders
• Systemic and organised - attention to detail and rigour to the process for building and maintaining software

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.