Associate Product Owner

Company Description

• Join us in shaping the future of the insurance industry, driven by innovation and a 150-year legacy of protecting people
• Work with experienced and skilled colleagues who support and inspire one another to achieve collective success
• Every project you undertake will directly contribute to creating a positive impact on the lives of those who need it most.

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we've been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Dai-ichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners, we're helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

Job Description

As an Associate Product Owner, you will play a crucial role in evolving our platform products and introducing new features and enhancements to existing ones. The Product Owner is an integral part of the delivery team, primarily responsible for guiding concepts from development to launch. This role collaborates closely with a multidisciplinary team, including Product Management, Design, Quality Assurance, and Development.

In this role, you will work with and represent business stakeholders to elicit, understand, analyze, document, refine, prioritize, and communicate business needs, enabling delivery teams to build effective solutions. This requires a comprehensive understanding of customer needs, as well as the business vision and strategy, to prioritize investment, business value, and delivery.

As the day-to-day decision maker, you will provide continual business guidance for the delivery team. The Product Owner is responsible for prioritizing the delivery team's work to ensure it aligns with the business strategy. You will collaborate with the business and IT delivery teams to identify and mitigate risks, including business operational risks, escalate issues, and develop and recommend appropriate solutions.

You will contribute to a strong culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation by proactively identifying and driving continuous improvement in your own practices and those of the team.

The ideal candidate for this position will have knowledge of financial products and superannuation, as well as experience in system support and maintenance.

Qualifications

• At least 5+ years' experience as a Product Owner or comparable business role in Life Insurance/Investments business.
• Experience with CLOAS, Life400 and COBOL will be highly regarded
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder engagement experience
• Ability to facilitate workshops aimed at elaborating business problems leading to high quality solution delivery.
• Experience in Agile delivery practises and behaviours within a technology delivery team particularly sprint planning and story elaboration.
• Able to identify potential business, commercial and technical risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Ability to assess financial, process and technology impacts of decisions or requirements during analysis.
• Proven record with people management and direct reports.

Additional Information

TAL is one of Australia's leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We're proud to be:

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we're here to support you.

You're always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.

Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone's responsibility.

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