Product Owner

Company Information:

What we look for
Our exceptional and motivated employees are our greatest strength. Our employees provide the highest level of customer service and help maintain our position as a leader in the global marketplace.

Markel Style
The Markel Style is what makes us stand out from our competitors. It's our core value which should underpin how we do business, while influencing our behavior and performance. We are looking for people who have potential and share our passion to live the Markel Style, which is described in more detail below.

If you think you have these core attributes we want to hear from you.

Job Summary:
We seek a dynamic, energetic individual for the Product Owner role on the Markel Applications Technology Solutions(MATS) program team. This individual will be an integral member of a MATS Agile delivery team responsible for defining and prioritizing the team backlog. The high performing Product Owner will seek to streamline the execution of program priorities, while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components within the team's responsible. The Product Owner has a significant role in quality and is the only team member empowered to "accept" new stories. This is a critical role and typically requires one PO to support one (sometimes two) delivery team(s).

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a voice to project the expectations of customers on new or already existing products
• Highlight product features in a manner clearly understandable to the development team
• Manage and develop product backlog, as well as user stories backlog for implementation
• Conduct backlog grooming meetings with a team of product owners
• Attend sprint planning and demo meetings to give feedback on sprint achievement, as well as to scrum team
• Monitor the progress of product development, as well as plan for product release
• Contact customers and end users to obtain information on expected product features
• Provide reports to update management and stakeholders on product development operations
• Analyze customer opinions and feedback to determine features or components that will add good value to a product
• Assess product value stream to identify areas that require improvements
• Measure product performance as well as value delivered to clients in order to make adjustments where necessary
• Develop and implement action plans for building and sustaining demand for a product
• Ensure implemented product features add value to end users and meet strategic expectations

"Why work for us?"

Diversity and inclusion
Markel is truly a global and diverse company. We believe that diversity makes us better business partners and that embracing people's differences can bring amazing results and fuel innovation. We have a portfolio of businesses and product lines that operate around the world.

Community involvement
Markel has a rich heritage of supporting communities across the world where our customers and employees live and work. Giving back is part of our history and our future. Our employees share in this philosophy through volunteering, mentoring and fundraising.

Commitment to open doors

Markel is committed to creating the best work environment. Our open-door policy is essential in recognizing business issues as they rise and to address the changing needs of our diverse and global workforce. Challenging management is a component of the Markel Style-some of our best ideas start from a conversation between a manager and an employee.

Entrepreneurial spirit

As the Markel Style states, we pursue excellence, strive for a better way, and share the success of others. Markel associates proactively seek new business opportunities, bringing further success to Markel.