Product Owner (Workday) People Platform

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Job Description Summary

LOCATION(S): Halifax or Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

Join us and be part of the UK's largest retail, digital, and mobile bank, serving over 30 million customers, working with an incredibly high performing and fast paced Product People team!

Job Description

About this opportunity

We're excited to be hiring for our People Platform team at Lloyds Banking Group, a team that combines the best of colleague-centricity, product obsession and agile delivery across our People Technology landscape.

In this Product Owner role you'll be responsible for driving delivery and value outcomes across our Workday platform. This includes implementing technology and process improvements to improve and enhance colleague experience. The role will also encompass management of the strategic relationship with Workday as a 3rd party provider, ensuring close alignment to roadmap developments through cross platform collaboration.

Key accountabilities:

• Build expert knowledge of Workday related products and processes and how these are executed through our technology systems to understand and improve colleague engagement and experience.
• Shape the product vision, build and manage the product backlog, creating features, epics and user stories that describe and define what we want to achieve in line with the product vision.
• Defines user-stories and work with other team members to analyse these stories for colleague journey improvements.
• Drive delivery of the E2E colleague journeys, ensuring feedback is incorporated into the team's work outcomes and how colleagues are valuing the new features.
• Support development of Lab or Team Objectives and Key Results and provide product performance and benefits realisation data.
• Developing capabilities within your functional area and invest in personal and team growth through mentoring and other informal methods.

What you'll need:

• Experience of managing and delivering change using the Workday platform, understanding how this technology is being used to support improvements in colleague experience and engagement
• Evidence ability to manage and run a product backlog, creating features, epics and user stories that describe and define what we want to achieve.
• Experience in applying agile methodologies to optimise innovation development and delivery.
• Significant experience operating within agile development methods & tooling e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of leading & working as part of an agile team within HR technology / process landscape.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills - you will be collaboratively working with colleagues from different areas across the business and third parties.
• Experience building a high performing team environment. You'll inspire delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence and trust.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Delivering change within HR technology landscape
• HR practitioner experience
• Supplier Management

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know .

If you have the skills and outlook we're seeking and this opportunity excites you, get in touch—we'd love you to join our team! 

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.