BizApps COE Product Owner

Business Unit:  Product & Channels Salary range: £72,800 to £91,000 per annum DOE Location:  Hybrid with occasional travel to a UK Virgin Money Hub location when required Contract type: Permanent - Full time

Our Team 

Join our BizApps Centre of Excellence (COE) - the driving force behind our digital strategy. We enable, accelerate, and govern adoption of Microsoft Business Applications, underpinning many of our leading customer products and services. With demand for our services at an all-time high, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of digital innovation.

What you'll be doing. 

• Act as Product Owner for the Microsoft Power Platform while setting a bold and customer focused product vision that aligns with business goals and drives meaningful outcomes.
• Manage and prioritise the product backlog with precision, keeping it transparent and aligned with squad and stakeholder needs.
• Shape and refine user stories to reflect the product vision, ensuring clarity, alignment, and impact.
• Drive sprint and release planning in partnership with the Scrum Master to maintain momentum and focus.
• Make confident, data informed decisions daily, balancing customer needs, technical feasibility, and business value.
• Lead governance forums to ensure early design assurance, evolve governance models for citizen development, and oversee platform change and cost management to maintain stability and efficiency
•  Own the delivery of AI proof of concepts with full accountability for compliance and data controls. Define and execute licensing strategies for the platform, collaborating closely with vendors to guarantee coverage and seamless integration.

We need you to have 

• Experience working in a Product Owner role or decision making role within Agile teams, with deep knowledge of Agile methodologies, techniques and ceremonies
• Confident backlog manager - skilled in writing and refining user stories and leading with a servant leader mindset.
• Experience working with AI-powered products or features, with an understanding of how to leverage AI to enhance customer and colleague experiences
• Excellent communicator with the ability to simplify complexity and tell compelling product stories.
• Power platform familiarity, understanding Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio and Dataverse for extending dynamics functionality
• Integration Strategy linked to knowledge of APIs, connectors and third party integrations within the dynamics ecosystem
• Ability to work with architects on solution design and platform governance

Red Hot Rewards  

• 25 days holiday per year, increasing over time to 30. Plus, an option to buy more, giving you even more choice.
• Private medical insurance
• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
• Access to an annual performance-related bonus
• Training and development to help you progress your career
• A great selection of additional benefits through our flexible benefits scheme
• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early. Please ensure to submit your applications as soon as possible.  

Say hello to Virgin Money 

Virgin Money is so much more than just a bank. As part of the Nationwide group,?together we're the UK's first full-service mutual bank serving millions of retail and business customers and all driven by our purpose ; Banking but fairer, more rewarding and for the good of society. With us, you'll be part of an organisation uniquely positioned to make a difference to the lives of customers, communities and broader society and embark on a collaborative, customer obsessed, and fun-filled career journey. Embrace the weekdays, enjoy fantastic perks, and make a meaningful positive difference. Time to discover what it means to be part of the first mutual full-service banking provider.  

 Be yourself at Virgin Money 

At Virgin Money, we celebrate everyone. We have fun, think big, and relentlessly include each other, all in pursuit of our purpose: Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.?? We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.?  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team 

Please note: If we receive a high volume of eligible applications, we may need to prioritise candidates whose skills and experience most closely align with the role, while still ensuring fair and equitable consideration for all applicants.

Now the legal bit 

We're in the process of bringing Virgin Money and Nationwide together which, subject to Court approval, will happen on 2 April 2026. You can find out more about what this means at https://nationwide-transfer. If you're successful in securing a role with us, your employment will move automatically to Nationwide when this transfer goes ahead.

Although some of our roles allow you to be based anywhere in the UK, we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. 

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks -?we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.?