Kickstart Product Owner

Join us as a Kickstart Product Owner, to support the development and evolution of a key technology capability that helps strengthen cyber recovery and operational resilience across the organisation. This role brings together technology, resilience and business teams to help ensure recovery services remain effective, reliable and aligned with changing business and technology needs.

 

In this role, you will help shape the future direction of the Kickstart capability by developing and delivering a prioritised roadmap of improvements. You will use testing outcomes, stakeholder feedback, service requirements and emerging risks to identify opportunities to enhance recovery readiness, operational effectiveness and resilience. Working collaboratively with technology and resilience teams, you will help coordinate recovery testing, governance activities and service improvements, while supporting the development of sustainable operating models and support frameworks. This is an opportunity to contribute to a high-profile resilience capability, build relationships across a broad stakeholder network and make a meaningful impact on the organisation's recovery preparedness.

 

To be successful as a Kickstart Product Owner, you must have the following essential skills:

 

• Extensive knowledge of technology products, platforms or services within enterprise technology environments.
• Deep understanding of cyber recovery, technology resilience, disaster recovery and operational resilience practices.
• Ability to develop product roadmaps, maturity backlogs and strategic improvement plans that support business and technology priorities.

 

Some other highly valued skills may include:

 

• Understanding of technology infrastructure, service dependencies, recovery architectures and critical technology services.
• Ability to support testing, validation and assurance activities that strengthen recovery readiness and operational effectiveness.
• Ability to build effective stakeholder relationships, communicate clearly and work collaboratively across technology and business teams.

 

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

 

This role will be based in Knutsford.