Electrification - Product Owner
Expleo is recruiting for an experienced Electrification Services Product Owner to join a leading automotive customer within the Seamless & Smart Energy (S&SE) programme. This role sits at the forefront of EV charging, mobility services, and connected energy ecosystems, helping to shape the customer journey in an electrified future.
📍 Warwickshire (Hybrid)
📅 Contract until March 2027 (with extensions likely)
💰 £333.88 per day (Umbrella)
The Role
As the Electrification Services Product Owner, you will be responsible for driving the delivery of value across a portfolio of electrification and digital service initiatives. You will coordinate Portfolio Epics, aligning delivery with quarterly business ambitions, while collaborating across engineering, commercial, and operational teams.This is a highly visible role with a strong focus on public charging ecosystems, digital services, and customer-centric innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring it is prioritised and aligned to stakeholder needs
- Coordinate delivery across Portfolio Epics in line with quarterly objectives
- Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and delivery teams
- Align planning across delivery timelines, dependencies, and milestones
- Manage competing priorities, balancing short-term delivery and long-term strategy
- Drive governance cadence including QBR/BRP ceremonies and sprint showcases
- Collaborate across domains to ensure dependencies are identified and synergies realised
- Enable effective stakeholder communication across technical, commercial, and operational functions
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in EV charging, mobility services, or digital operations, ideally within an eMSP, CPO, or automotive environment.
- Strong understanding of the Public Charging eco-system, roaming hubs and backend integration with OEM systems.
- Strong understanding of the JLR go-to-market and operational landscape (markets, CRC, engineering operations)
- Experience managing third-party service providers and technical vendors in a high-availability digital service environment.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret operational data and drive performance improvements.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience working across technical and commercial teams.
- Familiarity with customer-facing digital platforms (apps, portals) and their operational dependencies.
- Knowledge of relevant compliance areas such as GDPR, and EV roaming regulations (AFIR).
- Customer first mindset
- Good understanding of energy sector, including competitor and market awareness
- Project management, leadership and planning skills are essential, along with good teamwork and excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strategic thinking is also essential.
- Able to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with longer term strategic view.
Desirable Skills
- Knowledge of global EV charging market, in particular; public charging, market structures, and regulatory backdrop
- Experience with CRM, billing, and customer support systems in a service-led environment.
- Understanding of the broader EV ecosystem, including smart charging, energy services, and V2G.
- Experience scaling digital services across multiple European markets or globally.
- Ability to rapidly understand the key concepts of the system of interest and to lead groups of subject matter experts to design and architect these systems
- Ability to resolve complex, cross functional and cross-domain systems engineering problems
- Experience operating inside an Agile framework
- Good understanding of automotive industry, including competitor and market awareness
Education:-
Degree or relevant equivalent experience.
If you’re a Product Owner with deep EV ecosystem knowledge and a passion for digital services, this is an opportunity to make real impact.