Product Owner – Finance & Corporate Data - #1785181

About The Role

Motability Operations is seeking an experienced Product Owner to become an integral part of our Agile development team.

In this role, you’ll drive the evolution and implementation of data products, ensuring high-quality, accessible, and trusted data that fuels analytics, machine learning, and personalised experiences. You will work cross-functionally to create data products that empower teams across the business, from marketing to operations, and enable insight-driven decisions.

Acting as the bridge between business stakeholders, data scientists, analysts, engineers, and governance teams, you'll manage the data product backlog and ensure continuous delivery of data capabilities that align with enterprise objectives.

Acting as a liaison between stakeholders and the development team, you will translate the product vision into a prioritised & actionable backlog that maximizes business value while ensuring to addresses customer needs.

About You

• Strong experience as a Product Owner or Data Product Owner in Agile environments.
• Experience managing data products or platforms, ideally customer data platforms (CDPs), data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery), or data lakes.
• Familiarity with data modelling, data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and APIs.
• Knowledge of GDPR, data ethics, and governance practices.
• Strong understanding of data quality frameworks, data contracts, and lineage.
• Proficient in using analytics and BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker) to drive product decisions.
• Analytical mindset and ability to prioritise based on value derived from data insights.

You possess a deep understanding of Agile methodologies and have experience managing product backlogs and developing user stories. Your analytical mindset allows you to assess & make data-driven decisions how to deliver features that maximise customer and business value against KPIs.

You are passionate about delivering high-quality products that enhance customer experiences, and you thrive in collaborative environments where you can inspire teams to achieve their best work.

Minimum criteria

• Demonstrable experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role.
• Experience as a Data Product Owner or Product Owner for data/analytics platforms.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle with a data-centric lens.
• Familiarity with data engineering workflows, data tools (dbt, Airflow), and cloud data platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Proven experience translating data and analytics requirements into actionable backlog items.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) as it pertains to data products.

Who You’ll Be Working With

You’ll be working closely with the Product Manager & your development squad consisting of cross-functional colleagues from Engineering, Data, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts & UI/UX.

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 860,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our Values Are At The Heart Of Everything We Do. They Represent Ambition, And We Look For Our People To Live And Breathe Them Every Day

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

• Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
• 1 day for volunteering
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
• Generous family leave policies

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.