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Job Description
For the past 25 years, Sequel Business Solutions has grown from being a trusted consultancy to becoming a leading insurance and reinsurance software specialist. With our headquarters based in London EC2, we employ talented insurance and technical experts who understand the market and our clients’ business.
Now, as part of the Verisk Analytics family, that legacy is even stronger. Aligning with the world’s leading data analytics company extends our ability to help clients overcome the toughest challenges.
Together we deliver a powerful suite of software which provide full end-to-end management of all insurance and reinsurance business. Our clients are able to grow and better manage their business through greater efficiency, flexibility, and data governance.
Responsible for managing a particular product offering, including roadmap development, and takes an active role in client engagement. In some cases, may include management of the team responsible for delivering that product.
Main responsibilities:
Delivery
- Own the product backlog to ensure all deliverables are prioritized.
- Ensure that releases adhere to the concept of Minimum Viable Product to reduce the breadth of business change, whiles ensuring sufficient functionality is delivered.
- Support Project Managers on client delivery projects as required to achieve a successful delivery outcome.
- Signs off on the deliverables before they move to production.
- Accountable for the Vanilla configuration and ensure that new functionality is embedded within the Vanilla configuration.
- Responsible for the ensuring Client variations to the Vanilla configuration are understood, reduced and documented.
- Accountable for improving implementation and upgraded process, client experience and costs.
- Support Account Management and Sales teams where detailed product knowledge is required.
- Act as escalation point for Support and Account Management when required to ensure Client’s concerns and/or requirements are fully understood and assessed from a Product perspective.
- Support Project Managers and the other Product Owner(s) on client delivery projects as required to achieve a successful delivery outcome.
- Accountable for ensuring the supportability of the product, including training and internal processes.
- Accountable for ensuring the product is appropriately documented, for both internal and external audiences.
Roadmap and Development
- Accountable for translating the business vision into a well-defined product roadmap.
- Prioritisation and assessment of client issues requiring application fixes.
- Responsibility, with the other Product Owner(s) and Head of Product, for feature definition/elaboration to adequately prepare the roadmap for Product Team progression. Understanding of market initiatives and factors impacting the product.
- Responsible for creating user stories and ensuring they are documented to a sufficient level to enable delivery.
- Responsible for the product refinement ceremony where the team work together to ensure the deliverables can be estimated.
- Provide strong leadership to the development team.
- Accountable for the story map which outlines which deliverables are planned in the upcoming releases.
- Participate in feature reviews with responsibility to confirm acceptance of Product enhancements against the expected ’value’ previously agreed in conjunction with the Head of Product Line during roadmap planning.
- Signs off on the release before they move to delivery.
Client Engagement
- Co-Chair and drives client engagement workshops to ensure the roadmap meets the client needs.
- Collaborate with clients to assess the priority of new features and help shape the product vision.
- Collaborate with clients to understand Clients’ experience, feedback and issues of the application to help shape the product roadmap.
- Attend/support market events, as required in support of the Head of Product.
Team Support
- Provide support to the Head of Product Line and the Product Delivery Manager with continuous improvement processes for the Sequel product where agreed with the team.
- Identify knowledge deficiencies in the team and propose/execute remediation plans to solve.
- Provide support to the Head of Product Line with identifying key application/business knowledge deficiencies within the Support team and create knowledge upskilling plans.
Subject Matter Expertise
- Provide specific Product Line with deep domain and client practitioner knowledge.
- Provide SME input and generate presentation material for future Sequel Innovation forums.
Any other duties commensurate to the grade of the role.
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Qualifications
- Formal, structured learning (related degree or other qualifications).
- A compelling progression of experience within a software development organisation.
- A strong background working within a software vendor environment, in the scoping and development of software products.
- Prior experience as an analyst- developer, or business analyst, qualifying high level software requirements as well as defining detailed functional and technical requirements specifications.
- Commercial view and ability to weigh investment considerations alongside technical and functional implications.
- Experienced in working within an Agile-development environment.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence internal and external customers through credibility and professionalism.
- A high degree of passion for enhancing existing products and bringing new products to life.
- Capacity to lead as well as to support the team.
Additional Information
For over 50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster.
At Verisk, you'll have the chance to use your voice and build a rewarding career that's as unique as you are, with work flexibility and the support, coaching, and training you need to succeed.
For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® for outstanding workplace culture in the US, fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and second consecutive year in Poland. We value learning, caring and results and make inclusivity and diversity a top priority. In addition to our Great Place to Work® Certification, we’ve been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and Best Employer for Women, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.
We’re 7,000 people strong. We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation. And we are looking for people like you to help us translate big data into big ideas. Join us and create an exceptional experience for yourself and a better tomorrow for future generations.
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