Product Owner

About nib | Ko Wai M­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ātou

• Free health, life, income protection insurance + discounts for family

• Join a supportive and dedicated team where you can develop and enhance your career

• Great offices located in Auckland’s CBD

• Hybrid work environment with the flexibility to work from home and the office

• An exceptionally generous leave policy including 22 days annual leave, cultural leave, 18 weeks fully paid parental leave for all parents

• Fitness incentives

• Short term incentive programme

Here at nib, we pride ourselves on our innovative and passionate approach in offering Kiwis affordable, world-class health and life insurance. We believe the 'status quo is death' - we admire the diversity of thought and seek out people with an intrinsic need to make the world a better place. Health and wellbeing go hand in hand with our ‘future state’ strategy.  Ehara i te toa takitahi (success is not achieved alone) - you will be joining a collaborative, innovative and driven team.

About the role | He Aha Te Tūranga

In this rapidly evolving and digitally enabled world, nib is continuously looking for new ways to disrupt the status quo, go to market faster, optimise customer experiences and create sustainable growth. The Product Owner will lead the charge on this mission being responsible for the end-to-end delivery to support the customer and employee experience.

Using their extensive operational, process, and product expertise and knowledge of nib, the Product Owner is responsible for ensuring the product creates value, by taking into account the voice of the customer, and the employee experience with a view to achieving the defined targets.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own, define and maintain the product vision and product road map.

• Articulate a clear product vision for the business unit team and champion this vision

• Define key business KPIs and objectives with the Business Sponsor and ensure alignment between various projects

• Own and prioritise the product backlog allowing the development team to ‘pull’ highest value requirements.

• Lead product functionality discussions, working within agile squads liaising closely with the Delivery Leads and Business

• Actively contribute to the backlog with user stories.

• Identify the most important and impactful processes and systematically map them, identify pain points, and work to apply technology to automate and improve them while ensuring compliance, quality and cost effectiveness.

• Implement regulatory and business requirements into workflows and processes. Ensure the regulatory compliance of all team operations.

• Drive greater awareness and collaboration amongst the business through the coordination and involvement in a cross functional team model.

• Deliver strong leadership in a cross-functional team that are critical to the delivery of the transformation program and effort.

• Lead and deliver Programme Showcases

• Enable the design, development, delivery and management of key communications.

• With the Delivery Leads and Programme Director, conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness, and identify key stakeholders.

About you | Ko Wai Koe 

You are an experienced leader, able to work in a fast-paced environments, with the ability to apply an entrepreneurial mindset in assessing trade-offs, risk management, ROI, and adapting to changing needs of the business. You’re able to identify, manage and influence a range of stakeholders across the business, including senior leaders and project team members. You have strong reporting and forecasting ability and possess sound commercial acumen. You can derive business value from technical product features and your able to articulate and champion the product vision. You have a strong understanding of agile and scrum methodology.

If you're ready to step into a role that will challenge and reward you on a daily basis and provide an opportunity to build on your career, then please apply today!

We embrace an inclusive working environment.  We are LGBTTQIA+, disability and neurodiverse inclusive, and welcome people from diverse backgrounds aiming to create a work environment where employee differences such as age, culture, nationality, accessibility and education are valued to reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.

nib promotes distributed working for all employees, and encourages both working remotely and in the office.  Our new normal requires an appropriate workspace and reliable internet to work remotely.  Talk to us to see how we can make this work for you.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check (including criminal history check) prior to commencement of employment.

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