Associate Product Owner

What You’ll Do as Associate Product Owner In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day: Understand business challenges and translate them into test-and-learn opportunities through proof of concepts. Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery and design through development, optimisation and operational support, leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver desired outcomes. Define, maintain and prioritise the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer needs and strategic priorities. Create and manage user stories, requirements and acceptance criteria to enable clear and effective delivery. Use customer, colleague, market and data insights to prioritise features and enhancements based on value, business impact and cost efficiency. Lead sprint and release planning, manage cross-team dependencies, drive continuous delivery and product improvements, communicate progress, risks and opportunities to stakeholders, support product adoption and ensure compliance with governance frameworks. What You’ll Bring    Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:  Experience in technology delivery, product management, delivery management, or business analysis. Understanding of backlog and roadmap management with experience working in multidisciplinary delivery teams. Experience writing user stories and business requirements to support successful product delivery. Knowledge of Agile frameworks such as Scrum or SAFe and an understanding of product management practices. Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills with the ability to balance cost, value, and customer experience while identifying business opportunities from emerging technologies. Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills with the ability to influence business partners, suppliers, technical teams and non-technical stakeholders across global delivery teams.   Does this sound like you? Great, because we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future - and we’re excited to develop yours.   About Primark   At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to over 80,000 colleagues and over 480 stores in 18 countries today and growing.  So, what’s a career at Primark all about? The positive impact you’re making, the experiences you’re having and the people you’re with. It’s that feeling that turns a job into something more. Celebrating the wins, working at pace, and pulling through the challenging times with passion, courage, and your team by your side. It’s what drives us every day.  You’re our driving force. Embrace what sets you apart, own your career and develop in ways you never expected. Leave your mark. And do it your way.  #LI-Hybrid