Senior Product Owner

The role of the Senior Product Owner at WebBeds is to drive the strategy, planning, delivery, marketing and in-life optimisation of the products within their portfolio. The Senior Product Owner is responsible for understanding the needs of the customer – what are the biggest problems/opportunities and the outcomes required to deliver value – providing leadership and shaping the product vision to ensure the products supports WebBeds’ strategy and goals. The Senior Product Owner works closely with the Product Managers and Product Leadership and is the key decision maker on priorities and works to align users, stakeholders and delivery teams at each stage of the product life cycle. This role is also open in Madrid and Palma, Spain Key Responsibilities. Work closely with Product Leadership, Product Managers and other Product Owners to align product strategy around organizational goals and strategic intents. Challenge stakeholder objectives in search of higher-level goals/hidden motivation, distinguishing between ‘wants’ and ‘needs’ and establishing the business value. Understand and maximize value of products delivered. Represent the "voice of the customer" in collaboration with the delivery team and ensure everyone is aware of what we need and why. Participate in team's meetings and ceremonies to follow the progress and ensure what is delivered meets the business needs. Define what success looks like in terms of measurable outcomes. Inform product strategies and roadmaps with insights from research. Empower Product teams to take their own decisions by sharing context obtained from building relationships with stakeholders and users, customer and supply partners ensuring shared understanding and expectations of the business needs, drivers and challenges. Manage the product lifecycle, converting customer feedback into requirements, driving prioritisation and execution pre- and post-launch to foster strong adoption of products. Define and measure progress and value towards goals. Problem solving & critical thinking skills. Ability to continually learn agile best practices and understand the latest enabling technology. The skills we would love to see in your suitcase. 5+ years’ experience working as a Product Owner. Proven ability to help define and shape product vision and strategy. Experience working in an Agile environment. Strong data analytic skills and ability to use data to support and drive decisions. Experience in an Agile environment. Excellent communication skills (written and verbal English). WebBeds is a global digital travel marketplace for the travel trade, an intermediary connecting hotels and other travel service suppliers to a distribution network of travel buyers all over the world. We connect hotels looking to fill rooms with buyers trying to find rooms. In short, we source bookable content, integrate, aggregate and merchandise that content in our platform, then distribute it to a global network of travel trade buyers, who sell to the travelling public. Our Products range from a Retail Online platform, Integration Connectivity hub and distribution APIs to name but a few and our systems are 100% cloud hosted processing up to 8.3bn search requests daily, with 17million rooms nights sold in FY24. We deliver amazing outcomes using leading edge technology through innovative and creative thinking; and products help our partners deliver amazing travel experiences, enabling travel the world over. Some things that make us stand out We are a truly global travel organisation, with a global footprint. We have 1200+ people speaking 50+ languages in 120+ cites across 50+ countries. We partner with over 500,000 properties in more than 39,000 locations. We work with more than 50,000 travel buyers in 140 source markets. We have an amazing team delivering valuable outcomes using innovative tech and creative, lateral thinking. Working at WebBeds WebBeds is a fast-paced, results-driven business and that is reflected throughout our company, in our technology, product and perhaps most importantly – in our people. Visit ‘Careers’ for jobs around the world of WebBeds. Global and regional hotel chains, independent hotels, apartments, resorts, attractions, transfer and sightseeing companies and more – can sell their products through WebBeds by connecting to a global network of over 50,000 online and offline travel buyers through robust solutions that provide greater inventory control to simplify distribution, and leverage WebBeds enhanced analytics to inform inventory optimisation choices – saving costs and increasing revenue. Online travel agencies, retail travel agents, corporate travel managers, tour operators, wholesalers, tourism boards, super apps, DMC’s, group providers, airlines and more – can integrate the hundreds of thousands of hotels and ground services in the WebBeds marketplace through simple and seamless API connectivity, or they can search, shop and book online through one of WebBeds trade only booking sites. Our operation. We operate globally through four geographic regions – Europe, Asia Pacific, MEA (Middle East and Africa) and the Americas – with over 2,000 travel professionals working in 120 cities across 50 countries worldwide. WebBeds also operates specialist brands JacTravel DMC and UHl. JacTravel DMC provides tailormade travel arrangements for offline FIT and groups traveling to the UK, Ireland and key mainland European destinations to the international travel trade. UHI is a genuine pioneer, providing online pilgrimage travel services to travel agencies worldwide. WebBeds is a travel brand of the Web Travel Group, an ASX 200 listed company (ASX: WEB) operating global digital travel businesses. #J-18808-Ljbffr