Product Owner

We are seeking a new Product Owner to support the team in embedding our core value of making it easy to do business. The Strategy & Change team is made from a small but dedicated team who are responsible for a number of applications, software and tools that are vital to our Partnership. The main function of the department is to ensure that all our Partner facing tools and applications relating to Advice run efficiently and effectively for the Partnership to enable a first class service for our Clients.

Who are we looking for:

Someone who has a natural flare for finding the detail, is tenacious in driving projects and ideals forward, a confident decision maker with a curious nature who will challenge and probe information and reasoning. You will be a genuine team player who cares about their work and outputs.

Responsibilities:

• Create, own, and maintain product backlogs that deliver the product strategy
• Cascade vision and provide direction and assistance to the development teams.
• Manage release roadmaps and strategy, ensuring delivery is both timely and within budget.
• Engage the Partnership and Field on the take up of advice applications and tools, liaising with other teams where appropriate to ensure Business Readiness.
• Work with business stakeholders and the Partnership to understand, inform and influence business and technology strategies and their impact on advice application and tools.
• Manage working arrangements with third party providers of advice application and tools.
• Develop and enhance our digital advice proposition through exploring emerging technology which will enhance our proposition for the Partnership.

Special Requirements:

• Ideally holds, or is willing to gain, a project management qualification such as Prince 2 or Agile at practitioner level, or a Product Owner qualification.
• Although rare, we ask that the successful applicant be willing to
• attend stakeholder meetings where required
• support product releases outside core hours on average no more than 4 times per year

Thank you for taking an interest in a career with St. James’s Place Wealth Management. We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to ensuring all applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation.

Research tells us that applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria, or have been on an extended career-break. If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whether you tick every box.

Flexible Working

We are open to discussing reduced hours, job share arrangements and flexible working so please ask the question and start a conversation!

Why work for us?

Our Rewards

In joining us we aim to give peace of mind for you and your loved one’s futures. In addition to an attractive salary and eligibility to participate in the discretionary annual bonus opportunities, you will also receive an excellent benefit package including:

• Non-Contributory Pension – 10% (increasing with length of service) with further pension matching
• Meaningful protection benefits with real value, such as 10X life cover, PHI, and critical illness.
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
• Share schemes that enable all employees to have a stake in SJP
• Private Medical and Dental Insurance
• 28 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an additional up to 5 days
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Volunteering

Our Culture

St. James’s Place has a long tradition of community support and looking to do the right thing. As a business in 2019 we gave 4.4% of our profit before tax to community activities and the Tortoise Responsibility100 Index (January 2020) showed us to be the second most generous FTSE100 company by community investment for very £1,000 earned. Over 96% of our group employees are involved in supporting our communities and good causes. Over 80% of all our employees and Partners donate each month to our Charitable Foundation, which is now the 6th largest UK corporate foundation. Through the matching St. James’s Place gives on all donations our Charitable Foundation distributed over £12m in 2019.

We are proud of our inclusive culture, a space for everyone to be their authentic self, no compromises. We are active members of:

LGBT Great: https://www.lgbtgreat.com/

30% Club: https://30percentclub.org/

The Diversity Project: https://diversityproject.com/

Disability Confident: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

Find out more: https://www.sjp.co.uk/careers/life-at-sjp

Our Awards

We understand it’s important to be proud of the company you work for, that’s why we’re proud to share with you some of our recent awards:

• Wealth Management Company of the Year’ at the City of London Wealth Management Awards 2020
• Best Benefits Launch’ award, by Reward Gateway 2019
• Best Wealth Manager Growth Portfolio’ at the Wealth Advisor Awards for 2019
• Championing LGBTQ Inclusion’ Financial advisor diversity in finance award 2020

We occasionally close vacancies early due to high volumes of applications. We would therefore recommend you complete your application prior to the closing date which is for guidance only.