Product Owner
Brother International Europe Ltd
📍 Manchester (Hybrid)
🏢 About Brother
Brother is a global brand, delivering products and services to customers worldwide with manufacturing and sales facilities in over 40 countries and regions. Since being established in 1908 as a sewing machine repair business, the Brother Group has grown to be at the forefront of innovation in its history of more than 110 years. Underlying all activities is our “At your side” spirit, which always places our customers first.
We do this with a customer-first attitude and commitment to the circular economy, ensuring minimal impact on the environment through our “At your side 2030” vision and environmentally conscious approach.
🌀 About the Role
We are seeking a Product Owner to drive the delivery and continuous improvement of our sales and finance planning systems, supporting products, platforms, and business capabilities that support our strategic objectives. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you will translate business needs into prioritised deliverables, ensuring solutions deliver measurable value, improve customer and colleague experiences, and contribute to commercial success.
The successful candidate will act as a key link between business and delivery teams, balancing customer needs, business priorities, technical considerations and operational requirements to maximise value.
This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive, commercial minded Product Owner who thrives on collaborating across business and technology functions to deliver meaningful change and measurable impact.
📌 Role Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Define, maintain, and communicate a clear product roadmap aligned to business objectives.
- Identify opportunities for product enhancements, process improvements, and new capabilities.
- Work with stakeholders to understand strategic priorities and translate them into deliverable outcomes.
- Ensure product decisions are driven by business value, customer needs, and data insights.
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with business leaders, subject matter experts, and delivery teams.
- Facilitate workshops, requirement gathering sessions, and product reviews.
- Act as the primary point of contact for product-related decisions and prioritisation.
- Manage stakeholder expectations, balancing competing priorities and dependencies.
Product Delivery
- Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring priorities are clearly defined and understood.
- Create and maintain user stories, acceptance criteria, and business requirements.
- Collaborate with project managers, business analysts, developers, architects, and third-party partners to deliver product enhancements and initiatives.
- Support testing, deployment, change management, and adoption activities.
Performance & Continuous Improvement
- Define, monitor, and report on product KPIs and success measures.
- Use customer feedback, operational metrics, and business insights to inform product decisions.
- Continuously evaluate product performance and identify opportunities for optimisation.
- Ensure benefits realisation is measured and communicated to stakeholders.
👤 About You
🌟 Essentials
- Proven experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar delivery-focused role.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.
- Ability to translate business requirements into prioritised product backlogs and deliverables.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
- Experience managing competing priorities and influencing outcomes across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Commercial awareness with an understanding of how products contribute to business objectives.
➕ Desirables
- Knowledge of CRM, ERP, web, digital, or customer-facing platforms.
- Experience working with analytics and reporting tools.
- Understanding of customer journey mapping and process improvement methodologies.
- Familiarity with Jira, Azure, Confluence, or similar product management tools.
🎁 What’s on Offer
As well as a competitive salary, BIE offer a range of benefits:
- Hybrid & Flexible Working options
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays (plus option to buy 5 extra)
- Industry-leading pension (up to 10% company contribution)
- Life Assurance & subsidised health cash plan
- Training & career development opportunities
- Free parking, EAP, social events, environmental days & more
📩 Apply now through LinkedIn or email your application to: recruitment@brother.co.uk