Join us at the UK’s top Awarding Organisation - NEBOSH

What is the role?

Product Owner

Location:Hybrid working - Leicester. Potentially 1-2 days a week in the office depending on requirements.

Salary:circa £45,000-£48,000 (Dependent on demonstrated skills, knowledge, and industry experience)

Who are we?

The National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) is a leading global organisation, which provides health, safety and environmental qualifications. Our internationally recognised qualifications help to raise the competence of safety and environmental professionals as well as individuals at all levels in the workplace.NEBOSH qualificationsare highly respected by governments, employers and our learners.

Tens of thousands of people from more than 170 countries study for a NEBOSH qualification every year, learning with our network of over 450 Learning Partners.

Our Vision -We enable and inspire the world of work and wider environment to be a safer and healthier place.

Our Mission-We provide world-class and accessible, health, safety, environment, risk and wellbeing qualifications and services.

We are at an exciting and crucial point in our journey. We have seen significant growth in revenues and registrations over the last few years both in the UK and internationally.

There is now an opportunity to enable the business for further growth, through the transformation and modernisation of our IT platforms and systems.

The demand is already there, we now need someone with exceptional ability to drive, shape and scale up our IT platforms to build our capacity to meet the demand.

What is the role?

As a Product Owner you'll play a pivotal role in our mission-driven journey.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage backlog items by prioritising stakeholder requirements
• Facilitate workshops with key stakeholders to gather requirements to deliver both business and programme/project outcomes.
• Facilitate sessions to establish MVP and scope
• Interpret and challenge business needs and work with the relevant teams to understand how future solutions can deliver against business requirements
• Break down the work using agile principles by creating Epics and Stories
• Work closely with third parties
• Capacity planning
• Managing roadmaps
• Budget management
• Risk and issue management
• Helping to build a Product Owner Community of Practice that will ensure the organisation is working on the right things
• Help facilitate Big Room Planning sessions
• Delivery and release management
• Inspect and adapt to improve ways of working over time
• Ensure successful handover to “business as usual”
• Manage activities using Jira, Miro and Microsoft Office suite.

Where will you likely be at the moment?

Ideally, you are an experienced Product Owner, with a strong background in technology, experience with Agile methodologies, and a proven track record of leading complex deliveries.You are likely someone who excels in stakeholder communication, demonstrates effective leadership, can motivate teams and is passionate about driving significant technology-driven change. The role is perfect for someone ready to leverage their expertise to make a substantial impact within our organisation. We welcome applications from highly motivated and energetic people coming from a different background who would bring transferable skills to the role.

What next?

If NEBOSH has caught your attention – which we hope it has! – and the role profile sounds like it is something, you could succeed in; we would love to hear from you.

Please send us your CV with a covering letter detailing why you should be considered for this role.

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

Other benefits

• Company Pension (10% employer)
• Enhanced holidays (FTE 25 days raising to 33 days with service)
• Health Care Cash Plan
• Private Medical
• 3 x salary Death in Service
• Discounted Gym membership
• Extensive discounts and exclusive offers
• Free parking

Please note – if we receive a high number of applications, we may close the application window earlier than advertised so if you are interested in the role, please submit an application as early as possible.