Senior Product Owner

Role Description

We are excited to offer an outstanding opportunity to join our Central Data Office as a 'Master Data Senior Product Owner', a pivotal role within our MDM cross functional long lived product team. You'll be at the forefront of how we manage Party data across all AZC Lines of Business to support BMP Transformation.

This role will be based in our Guildford office in a hybrid working model.

Salary Information

Pay: Circa £65,000 per year. Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

About You

• You will be leading Party Data Management across AZC, ensuring a single trusted operational view of organisations.
• Embedding data management principles and supporting MDM operating model.
• Understanding the technology product/application and developing business knowledge to manage stakeholder expectations.
• Managing multiple products/applications across customer journeys.
• Ensuring delivered value aligns with business KPIs and stakeholder responsibilities.
• Collaborating with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Release Train Engineers to manage cross-team changes.
• Defining vision, strategy, and roadmap for product areas and setting PI objectives.
• Acting as customer proxy to define and prioritise backlog stories and epics.
• Making sprint decisions based on MVP and business benefit.
• Maintaining backlog accuracy and alignment with initiatives.
• Influencing team engagement in backlog refinement and user story writing.
• Confirming definition of "Done" and ensuring SME support during sprints.
• Signing off sprint development work and providing quick, clear decisions.
• Escalating blockers and dependencies to maintain delivery momentum.
• Coaching junior Product Owners and supporting training and knowledge sharing.

Essential Skills

• Demonstrating strong technical understanding of system applications and business processes.
• Delivering data-driven solutions with a customer-first mindset.
• Comfortable working in Agile Scrum teams and using collaboration tools.
• Matching B2B organisation data and applying external data enrichment.
• Applying foundational data analysis skills (profiling, ETL, SQL, visualisation).
• Linking technical investment to business value.
• Bringing a data consultant mindset and problem-solving approach.
• Joining data and business value across complex landscapes.
• Communicating effectively and managing stakeholders.
• Leading teams and reviewing deliverables.
• Motivating cross-functional teams and making risk-based decisions.
• Embedding data quality and governance frameworks.
• Demonstrating passion for data and attention to detail.
• Familiarity with UK B2B data and external enrichment sources.
• Understanding APIs and DevSecOps.

We support the government scheme "Access to Work" - please feel free to ask us about the access to work scheme.

Desirable Skills

• Previous experience in insurance or financial services.

• Previous experience as a Product Owner (preferable), ideally within insurance or financial services.

• Experience in senior roles within a data function.
• Passion for data culture and pragmatism in maturing it within large organisations.

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that's perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That's on top of enjoying all the benefits you'd expect from the world's number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it's right for our customers, our business and for you, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it's assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for All

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

Hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk

For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Scott Burns

If you are an at-risk candidate facing potential redeployment, please include this information in your CV.

Closing date: 7/11/2025

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

Join us - Let's Care for Tomorrow.

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84238 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent