Team Product Owner, Trade Finance, Markets Platform

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Job title: Team Product Owner, Trade Finance, Markets Platform

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £76,194 - £89,640

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 our Birmingham office.

About this opportunity:

We have a phenomenal opportunity within Corporate & Institutional Banking for an experienced Team Product Owner to join us. The purpose of this specialist role is to focus on the product ownership for our Trade Finance products.

Do you have excellent knowledge of Investment Banking, Markets technology, and Trade Lifecycle capabilities associated with Markets? This could be the role for you!

What you'll be doing:

• Own the product backlog for a Group-wide technology asset. You'll develop the technical design for the product and handle all product risk.
• Shape the Product vision and roadmap at Lab or Team level and deliver against a product budget, performing financial and data analysis.
• Supporting the development of Lab/Team goals and turning points. Provide product performance and benefits realisation data. You'll define the segmentation and supplier strategy.
• Work with Customer Journey Manager's to analyse user stories for customer journey improvements. Defining user-stories at Lab/Team level to meet customer needs.
• Prioritise, refine and manage Lab/Team Product backlog and investigate incidents to develop contingency plans.
• Accountable for Product change governance (e.g., CMIA / SPFIA) and Business Readiness activities (e.g., training and comms, testing and readiness for implementation) for your respective features, journeys or technology components.
• Develop capabilities whilst investing in personal and team growth through mentoring and other informal methods.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!

What you'll need:

• Confirmed experience within the Capital Markets or Trade Finance technical landscape with a strong understanding of the Trade Finance lifecycle, and associated products.
• Knowledge of the technical and application interdependencies in the wider technical estate along with transformation and migration experience across applications and the markets' technology stack.
• Experience of product ownership or project management in sophisticated transformations.
• Proven track record of senior integration work across Capital Markets within a financial institution.
• Strong Risk Management experience.
• Capable of building relationships with senior stakeholders and excellent vendor leadership skills.

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 want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 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. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We'd love to hear from you.

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.