Job Purpose and Background Are you passionate about delivering world-class digital products which can contribute to a climate-resilient, environmentally sustainable future? CDP is looking for an Associate Product Owner to join our Product Owner team and Scoring squad to provide a critical contribution to CDP’s mission. This is an excellent opportunity to make an impact on how digital products can provide relevant insights to organizations to drive real change. You will utilize your skills in agile delivery methodologies, problem-solving, and stakeholder management to help with the discovery and delivery of our Scoring Products. The Scoring products enable the end-to-end delivery of scores to our customers with a focus on the creation of the scoring logic, auto-calculation of scores, and provision of an interactive Portal for manual scoring and checks to be carried out. The role requires the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within CDP, to analyze complex requirements and to think critically and innovatively. About CDP CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states, and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. In 2021 we launched our new five-year strategy: Accelerating the Rate of Change - find out more here . Visit https://cdp.net/en or follow us @CDP to find out more. About the Digital Directorate In 2023 CDP underwent a complete digital transformation, seeing us transition the annual disclosure cycle from a paper-based, human-intensive, and vendor-dependent stack, to a completely in-house developed, modernized, and scalable product that will revolutionize the customer experience for both external and internal users. As part of this transformation, we also built completely new teams, spanning across Design, Product, Infrastructure, and Engineering. Key responsibilities include: Collaborate with internal users across the organization to analyze their business needs, identify pain points, and develop the product roadmap aligned with internal goals and objectives. Create detailed user stories, process diagrams, and other supporting documentation to ensure requirements are captured clearly and concisely. Work within a squad using Agile methodology to deliver value to users. Work collaboratively between departments and technical teams, translating business requirements into well-understood technical specifications through to feature delivery. Conduct analysis to identify areas for optimization and improvement of authoring and scoring processes. Collaborate with stakeholders across different functions to ensure the authoring and questionnaire management system aligns with internal processes and enhances overall efficiency. Prioritize and resolve conflicting business needs and plan work increments accordingly. Work effectively with change management to roll out changes. Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in product and data provisioning, and recommend innovative solutions to improve user experience and system efficiency. You will have the following skills and experience: Essential criteria: Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role within a Product-led organization - a focus on scoring or natural language processing. Familiarity with and experience of embedding industry best practices and trends in agile methodologies. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with in-house employees from various functions, as well as technical teams. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making. Knowledge of data collection, survey methodologies, and admin tools solutions. Ability to drive user adoption and provide training and support. Experience working with charities, NGOs, or similar organizations preferred. Knowledge, interest, and passion for the environmental and/or sustainability space will be an advantage. This is a full-time role based at CDP’s London office reporting to the Scoring Product Owner. Salary and benefits: £45,000 - £60,000 per annum, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities, and other benefits. Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK. We cannot sponsor this role. Before you apply: We’ll only use the information you provide to process your application. For more details on how we use your information, see our applicant’s privacy notice . By uploading your CV and covering letter, you are permitting CDP to use the information you have provided for recruitment purposes. How to apply: Please upload your CV in the application form along with a covering letter as an additional document setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages. The deadline is 17th November 2024. #J-18808-Ljbffr
