Product Owner
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Product Manager for an initial 5 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £500-£550/day (Inside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
Responsibilities:
– Build the product development roadmap to set out specific changes coming with each release.
– Carry out initial impact analysis of the planned changes, and coordinate feedback from a number of stakeholders.
– Build a repeatable ‘update’ process, that is iteratively developed, improved and optimised quarter by quarter.
– Assist with the development and maintenance of platform training content, in partnership with Directorates, and supports the ongoing use of Oracle Guided Learning.
– Perform regular review sessions to identify opportunities for continuous improvement within the HR, Finance and purchasing platform, and then channel such ideas into the right process.
– Work with Digital & 3rd party suppliers to specify changes, co-ordinate testing, and deployment etc.
– Assist with facilitating a super user network.
– Manage and develop a bank of test scripts, and automated testing regimes in partnership with Digital and 3rd party suppliers.
– Assess the impact of change and develop change plans and comms strategies.
– Considers the training and enhancement management requirements of the product and maintains a backlog and schedule of enhancements for Oracle Cloud.
Essential Skills:
– Experience working in a technology environment with an understanding of a wide range of topics such as:
Architecture / Applications / integration challenges / change management and managing IT platforms / products in a constant iterative improvement / development environment.
– Experience of prioritisation and estimation techniques for effective management of product backlogs.
– A successful track record of managing internal and external ICT delivery partners through system development lifecycles to deliver effective IT solutions that meet user’s needs.
– Demonstrable experience of product management (as per the DDaT Capability Framework), defining, building and managing platforms.
– Experience of working with Oracle Fusion or EPM and having an understanding of Oracle update processes.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Build the product development roadmap to set out specific changes coming with each release.
– Carry out initial impact analysis of the planned changes, and coordinate feedback from a number of stakeholders.
– Build a repeatable ‘update’ process, that is iteratively developed, improved and optimised quarter by quarter.
– Assist with the development and maintenance of platform training content, in partnership with Directorates, and supports the ongoing use of Oracle Guided Learning.
– Perform regular review sessions to identify opportunities for continuous improvement within the HR, Finance and purchasing platform, and then channel such ideas into the right process.
– Work with Digital & 3rd party suppliers to specify changes, co-ordinate testing, and deployment etc.
– Assist with facilitating a super user network.
– Manage and develop a bank of test scripts, and automated testing regimes in partnership with Digital and 3rd party suppliers.
– Assess the impact of change and develop change plans and comms strategies.
– Considers the training and enhancement management requirements of the product and maintains a backlog and schedule of enhancements for Oracle Cloud.
Essential Skills:
– Experience working in a technology environment with an understanding of a wide range of topics such as:
Architecture / Applications / integration challenges / change management and managing IT platforms / products in a constant iterative improvement / development environment.
– Experience of prioritisation and estimation techniques for effective management of product backlogs.
– A successful track record of managing internal and external ICT delivery partners through system development lifecycles to deliver effective IT solutions that meet user’s needs.
– Demonstrable experience of product management (as per the DDaT Capability Framework), defining, building and managing platforms.
– Experience of working with Oracle Fusion or EPM and having an understanding of Oracle update processes.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
