Product Delivery Owner

Hybrid - Manchester

Product Delivery Owner – Dealer Auction

Why us: 

https://www.dealerauction.co.uk/

Dealer Auction is a digital business transforming automotive remarketing.

Born from a joint venture between Auto Trader and Cox Automotive, we are the UK’s largest online wholesale marketplace. Our core purpose is to help automotive businesses buy and sell used vehicles online, faster and smarter than any other platform.

Customers include Manufacturers, Fleet & Leasing companies, Franchise and Independent Retailers.

We are continually evolving our digital platform to do more, from search and data tools to logistics and transaction management. We currently attract over 5500 buyers and 1200 sellers and transact over 120,000 vehicles every year.

As buying and selling moves away from traditional methods into online solutions, we’re on a mission to make buying and selling cars an easy, straight-forward process and are set to grow exponentially.

Our culture is underpinned by the values of being community minded, brave, innovative, reliable and passionate. These behaviours ensure that as a team we have a common foundation that enables us to be respectful of others and collaborate to grow our business and deliver value for our customers.

The role: 

Active in all software development lifecycle stages, ensuring requirements are clearly defined, understood, achievable and delivered through well communicated Go To Market plans. These plans will be created collaboratively and support the successful launch of new features and propositions on the platform.

You will be responsible for the following:

• Understanding and driving where we are in the delivery of product, customer and technical detail and bringing these together with the wider product team to shape the roadmap.
• Ensuring that we have Go to Market plans in place for new product launches, existing product enhancements and new customer networks.
• Leading and coordinating product launch activities, ensuring seamless execution and alignment across all teams.
• Monitoring and reporting on the performance of go-to-market initiatives, making data driven recommendations for improvements that will feed into the product roadmap.
• Crafting Epics, features and user stories and supporting, delivery of a backlog of ideas created within the business and in alignment with existing priorities. The ability to break down complex business & user needs into epics & stories, and to work hand in hand with the engineers to build & deliver them
• Creation and management of appropriate documentation to support broader business discussions, the technical team and ensure that there is clarity where there are variants to the base product solution.
• Using our unique data and insight you will support the continued improvement of the capabilities on our transactional platform and collaborate with our sales and service teams to ensure our customer experience is market leading.
• Bringing together and collaborating with cross functional teams to understand project requirements, timelines and client expectations.
• Proactively identify and communicate risks, issues, dependencies, and blockers to ensure customer requirements are delivered on time and product changes are launched effectively.
• Partnering with a Product Manager to develop communication approaches so you can effectively engage with and influence relevant stakeholders, translating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.                                                                     ​

​You are:

• Someone who enjoys a blend of ‘start up’ mentality, where focusses can shift, alongside the development and delivery of more strategic solutions. So you will be able to use your initiative and be flexible and open to change.
• Someone who can immerse themselves into the product, customer and technical detail, and is able to bring these areas together and work hand in hand with the engineers to build & deliver them
• Someone with experience of agile delivery who is looking to broaden their experience with technology, product and/or delivery.
• You are able to problem solve, mitigate risks and overcome challenges
• Proactive with stakeholders, you will love collaborating with others, knowledge share and have the ability to instil a sense of urgency around delivering the outcome.
• A person with the ability to balance your time and focus between the now and next
• Passionate about customers and resolving problems at a business level as well as at a user level.
• A creative problem solver with the ability to find solutions despite challenges.
• Curious about new technology and product trends and using these to create new ideas that benefit our customers.
• Logical in your approach with the ability to break larger goals into smaller incremental deliverables that add value at every stage.      
• Ideally some experience working in ecommerce/automotive/tech sector(s)
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary, agile cross functional teams. We don’t have Scrum Masters at Dealer Auction, rather we prefer that all team members share responsibilities for agile processes and ceremonies. 
• Experience of managing developer resources across priorities
• Experience of creating technical documentation for both developers and 3rd parties

 Benefits and more

We're offering a salary between £40,000 - £50,000 dependent on experience. You'll have 25 days holiday initially, increasing to 28 days and in addition bank holidays.  You will have access to our rewards scheme and will be enrolled on to our ‘Gear Up’ employee discount programme.

There will be the opportunity to keep up to date with advances in product and technology, with access to relevant conferences and the wider product communities within both of our Parent companies; AutoTrader and Cox Automotive

We have a hybrid working model, with flexibility built around working from our offices as well as working from home. Enabling us to collaborate, learn from each other and focus as needed.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE

We work with a carefully selected set of recruitment agencies and we're not looking to add to our PSL.

We do not accept unsolicited agency CV's sent to the recruitment team or directly to the hiring manager. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CV's

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