Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for an Agile Product Owner to join our UK claims solutions group to lead and drive a programme of product enhancements. You will monitor performance and communicate daily with a large and varied stakeholder group, including customers and senior management.

About the Day-to-Day Responsibilities of the Role

• To define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities, aligned to a customer led strategy supported by a sustainable business model.
• To maintain a Product Roadmap and lead quarterly business reviews/ big room planning.
• To facilitate constant communication between those who want work done and those who can do the work.
• Collaborate with internal and external contacts to analyse needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.
• Work closely with customers, account managers and business teams to create and maintain a healthy product backlog according to business value or ROI.
• Remain up to date on trends and best practices for agile project management.
• Works with Product Manager and business to elicit, define, manage, and track the requirements of the product.
• Works with customers and the business to prioritize features according to business value.
• Ensures that Verisk Claims UK business stakeholders are fully engaged and communicated to at all times.
• Produces user stories using INVEST criteria.
• Pulls together communications materials and keeps track of the functional & non-functional requirements and scope for the team.
• Facilitate discussions between the scrum team and the customer when necessary.
• Accept or reject the functional deliverables from the scrum team on behalf of the Customer.
• Line management of a small team of business and test analysts, including setting objectives and supporting training plans.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a product owner in an agile software delivery environment.
• Relevant and current Agile Certification.
• Experience of having discovered and delivered opportunities within an organisation with primary responsibility for a product road-map definition and agile delivery. 
• Experience of project and product delivery with cross-functional teams, able to overcome/adapt to unforeseen challenges to meet commitments.
• Understand costs vs value and clearly communicates and prioritises delivery accordingly.
• Solving complex problems; taking a new perspective on existing solutions.
• Demonstrable understanding of the techniques and methods of product discovery and product delivery.
• Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to influence and engage direct reports and peers.
• Experience of management, mentoring and coaching a team whilst driving a high-performance culture.
• Highly evolved communication skills and an ability to translate technical information into business language.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think creatively & drive innovation.
• Proficiency in MS Office and JIRA.
• Proven leadership skills.
• Project management skills and attention to detail.
• An energetic, tenacious, results-orientated approach.

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Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale. We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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