At Lockton, we’re passionate about helping our people achieve their ultimate potential. Our people are curious, action-oriented, and always striving to make ourselves and those around us better. We’re active listeners working to ensure understanding and problem solvers developing innovative solutions. If you can see yourself delivering excellent service to clients, giving back to our communities and being a part of our caring culture, you belong here.
Purpose of the role:
As a Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between business requirements and technical implementation. You will be responsible for defining and prioritizing the product backlog, ensuring that development partner & teams are working on tasks that deliver the most value to Lockton. By collaborating with various stakeholders - including function owners, business, development partners/ team, and the support - you will ensure the successful delivery of high-quality products and ensure alignment with overall company business objectives.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Head of Digital to build and maintain a product vision & strategy that aligns with business objectives and needs and company’s overall strategy.
- Define and continually refine the product roadmap, key milestones for product development, ensuring it aligns with the strategic goals of the organization.
- Develop, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, turning high-level project objectives into user stories and detailed requirements.
- Clearly communicate priorities and acceptance criteria to development partner.
- Ensure that the backlog is transparent, visible, and understood.
- Coordinate with business and other stakeholders to gather accurate requirements and needs. Work closely with stakeholders and identify opportunities for product enhancements.
- Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications and actionable tasks for the development partner and internal team.
- Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.
- Lead sprint planning meetings, identifying the delivery team, ensuring that development partner and/or internal team understand backlog items and acceptance criteria.
- Actively participate in daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure that teams are aligned, and obstacles are addressed promptly.
- Ensure that completed work meets acceptance criteria and is delivered on schedule.
Engage with stakeholders to gather feedback, communicate progress, and adjust the product backlog as necessary. - Act as the primary point of contact between development partner/ internal team and stakeholders, ensuring clear and effective communication.
- Provide regular updates to the head of digital on product status, and performance.
Headquartered in Dubai (UAE), with 400+ associates providing (re)insurance and people solutions, we have strength in handling major corporate clients in UAE and throughout the region. Offering innovation in our solutions, we service clients across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan customising the best protections for them.
Lockton MENA was the first broker to achieve its own Lloyd’s Broker license in the Middle East and holds an exclusive global partnership with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) under the International Professional Partner Firm (IPPF), demonstrating high professional standards and best practices, that distinguish the company among its peers in the industry.
From our headquarters in Dubai, Lockton MENA has expanded operations into the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Oman.