Graduate Product Owner

Company Description

We’re the nation’s favourite heating brand, here to warm up people’s homes, lives, and futures. 

From boilers, hybrids and heat pumps to solar thermal and smart controls, we’re giving our customers plenty of choice. With cutting-edge tech and research, we’re right in the thick of the drive for a better future of home heating.

It’s not all tools and tech. People are the real heart of our company. We connect with our customers to deliver genuinely helpful support, and we care about our employees and give them enriching careers. We work hard, we work together, and we work with a cause – delivering brilliant customer support and exceptional engineering. 

As an organisation of more than 1,600 employees, we also take our role in the communities we serve seriously. From giving away free heating systems for community spaces, to our charity, education, and volunteer work – we’re no strangers to rolling our sleeves up, getting stuck in, and helping out. 

If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, we’d love to meet you. 

Come and work #LikeABosch at Worcester Bosch.

Job Description

OVERALL PURPOSE:

This role is an integral part of the Research and Development team, within our team we are responsible for delivering the core gas boiler platform for the UK and wider European markets. The role will focus on improving the current successful Greenstar 4000 and also specifying the Next Generation of product for the UK and European market.

This role will support the Product Owner working closely with a team of engineers as well and product managers from multiple markets in delivering the exceptional, feature rich and cost effective solution expected of the lead product for Worcester Bosch.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

To work in close cooperation with the Product Owner for the C4000 series of internationally sold gas boilers

• Collaborate effectively with national, international colleagues, stakeholders and the Project Steering Committee
• Utilisation of Agile techniques in order to ensure transparency, create higher customer satisfaction and increased project control
• Supporting the management and maintenance of the product series for both legacy and future products
• Supporting with strategic planning for future product ranges including zero carbon technologies
• Driving forward ratio and quality improvements for the product series.
• Running and facilitating meetings and workshops
• Supporting Director of Engineering on department tasks if needed

5 KEY DELIVERABLES:

1. Supporting with strategic planning for future product ranges
2. Supporting with the management of the product series
3. Supporting the Product owner and wider team in driving forward ratio and quality improvements for the product series
4. Setting up and assisting with moderation of workshops and meetings if needed
5. Supporting with day-to-day activities of the product series

ADDITIONAL TASKS / RESPONSIBILITIES:

Opportunity to work in wider business cross functional teams.

Qualifications

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

• Strong communication skills, written and verbal
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel
• Highly organised, motivated, result focused with a strong attention to detail
• Open, approachable person who can work well together with other people inside and outside own department
• Degree qualified, ideally a technical qualification or equivalent experience in a technical role.

Additional Information

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES:

• 39hours per week with flexible working pattern
• As an international company there may be possibilities to travel, therefore must be open to domestic and international travel