Product Owner – Workplace Productivity & Collaboration 24 views

Salary up to £65,000 per annum (plus a £2,000 South East allowance for candidates based at Culham, Oxfordshire) and a generous benefits package
Based at Culham, Oxfordshire or Sellafield, Cumbria (hybrid working)
Permanent, 37.5 hours per week

The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) is an armed police service that’s dedicated to the nuclear industry. Our vision is to be recognised as a provider of a world-class service for the protection of nuclear material and facilities. Given the critical nature of our work, it’s key that we recruit skilled and committed professionals. 

The Product Owner is a brand-new role at the CNC within our growing IT department, to focus on ensuring the product value stream delivers business and customer value, managing the product lifecycle from design, delivery, operations, to acting as the primary representative and bridge between the business and technology organisations. You’ll be empowered and come with an astute ability to negotiate and make decisions around priority scope and requirements with impacted business stakeholders.

You will support the Head of IT in forecasting, management, and review of annual Revenue and a Capital budget of approx. £6million. You’ll shape the vision for the Product growth that is engaging and feeds into our overarching business strategy, whilst building a clearly understood product roadmap that reflects customer desires and captures the imagination of the business. Promoting and leading a culture of innovation and experimentation, with the freedom to iterate and develop ideas, you’ll provide this insight to stakeholders and participate in project planning. You’ll create, maintain, prioritise and sequence the product backlog based on business value and return on investment, ensuring the delivery of features alongside the Product Delivery Lead.

To be successful you will have in-depth knowledge of the assigned product technology, to include Microsoft M365 platform and workflow tools such as Power Automate and Power Apps, and their ability to enhance business processes, good practice, alongside a broad understanding of IT topics such as cloud products and platforms, micro-service architectures, automation, and API integration. You’ll have experience of leading complex, cross-functional projects in Agile and/or DevOps environments and be passionate about effecting changes and using cloud technologies to deliver applications/solutions. Your technical knowledge and experience will be backed up by your ability to navigate and build connections with organisations, influencing and driving results in cross-functional teams, and your excellent communication skills.

As police staff the public expect us to display the highest standards, values and professional qualities at all times. The CNC values and Code of Ethics applies to all police staff and sets out the principles and standards of behaviour we expect to see, and you are responsible for displaying and delivering these to the highest standards.

This role has been assessed as suitable for hybrid working with a 40 % office / 60% remote working basis.   There is an expectation that there will be requirement to travel to CNC locations to support activities or meet with suppliers for infrastructure projects.

Benefits of working for the CNC 

• 27.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Additional 30 minutes time worked during the week to accrue additional leave, which can be used for period between Christmas and New Year
• Generous pension scheme (20.7% employer contribution)
• Flexi-time working scheme
• Bonus scheme – dependent on organisational performance, up to a maximum of 7% of salary
• Officers and staff also have the opportunity to join the national Blue Light Card scheme which offers discounts on a variety of products and services to those working in the emergency services, NHS and Armed Forces
• Free parking on site
• Enhanced family friendly and wellbeing policies
• Cycle to Work scheme

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At CNC we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles. We strive to empower everyone to bring their authentic self openly and safely to work.

Through the dedicated commitment of our affinity networks, ED&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our ED&I commitments, ensuring the CNC is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.

Please review the video links below which will give you an overview of the vetting process that you will be required to go through if you are successful in your application to join the CNC:

• Vetting: An Overview – https://youtu.be/lRit8RA7Zpo
• Vetting and Finances – https://youtu.be/JmZP7r-9MEE
• Vetting and Life Experiences – https://youtu.be/jVPHvgpB8nc