Your role in a nutshell

We are recruiting a permanent Senior Technical Product Owner (HR/Finance/Non-Trade) for our global HQ in London Bridge (Hybrid Working).

The successful candidate will take a lead role in the development and priority of core functionality across our Core/SAP product(s). Specialising in SAP FICO , HRM and Procurement. As part of a project team you will own the delivery of high quality, customer and colleague led products, ensuring focus on the items that will deliver the most significant business value. You will build the right product(s) for the business and working closely with the extended team to interpret and ensure alignment with strategy, roadmap and business goals. This will require the PO to work closely with a variety of stakeholders to deliver a backlog of product(s) across multiple workstreams.

More about the role

• Responsible for launching new products and enhance existing ones and ensuring business readiness
• Responsible for the on-time, on-budget and on-strategy delivery of our products and projects through careful prioritisation and review of business cases
• Engagement with business stakeholders to cover the strategic aspects of product development, including product vision definition, roadmap creation and business case creation, keeping product return on investment (ROI) and business value delivery as the core focus
• To work collaboratively with the wider business and IT development teams to ensure the roadmap is fully aligned to business direction, strategic goals and requirements
• Deliver against and support the vision, strategy and roadmap for your product(s) aligned to the wider global IT strategy
• Be a focal point of contact for the business for the defined product/portfolio of products.
• Manage product user journey design and requirements gathering, ensuring a high-quality customer and colleague experience
• Overseeing of user acceptance testing
• Apply practices, procedures and standards to ensure activities and decisions are compliant with The Body Shop's risk appetite, legal and regulatory requirements
• Work alongside the wider technical team including 3rd parties, ensuring that business needs are reflected in project requirements, adhereing to the product(s) roadmap
• Brief stakeholders and senior management on the product roadmap, and associated deliverables, to ensure cross function alignment
• Work closely with Internal teams and external suppliers / third parties to ensure resource is aligned to the roadmap and tracking for success
• Manage product(s) feature prioritisation; ensuring stakeholders understand the compromises and constraints

What we look for

• Extensive experience in ‘Product Management’ or as ‘Product Owner’ and proven track record in taking on end-to-end ownership of products and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment
• Hands on experience with agile and waterfall methodologies
• Ability to manage multiple cross-functional team projects across critical deadlines
• Blend of business, technical and management skills, with understanding of colleague / customer experience
• Experience in A/B testing and data analytics to inform product roadmap
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills. · Strong retail/consumer facing experience
• Solid technology understanding; ability to communicate effectively with the delivery team and communicate clearly back to business stakeholders
• Experience with working in a matrix or complex global environment. · Ability and desire to work in a position that requires both strategic and tactical focus. · Strong familiarity of emerging technologies, capabilities, and solutions within your area
• Experience in working with SAP – SAP HR, SAP FICO, Taxation & Non Trade Procurement
• Able to own roadmap and help to shape this by working closely with various stakeholders to integrate with business strategy
• Experience with change management and working in a matrix or complex global environment
• Experience in Jira, Confluence or similar toolsets
• Degree qualified preferable · Industry Product Management training preferable

Benefits

That’s a lot to ask for – so in return we offer

• a 6% contributory pension plan (that rises with loyalty)
• 23 days holiday plus bank holidays - time to refresh and recharge (you can buy/sell holiday)
• 1 Self Love Day – An extra day off per year to recharge and focus on what you love to do most
• 3 additional days a year to volunteer in the local community to support the causes you feel most passionate about
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• LOVE Money – Money from us to spend on YOUR wellbeing - pamper yourself on us. Every year.
• 50% employee discount on our products and access to sample sales
• Access to Perks at Work, our online shopping channel with exclusive deals & discounts
• Access to our Nourish platform, where you have access at certain times of the year to fantastic benefits such as; Buying/Selling holiday, Pension Top Up, Private Medical Insurance options, Green Car Benefits, Cycle To Work scheme, Techscheme, On site nursery (for Littlehampton colleagues), and much more!
• Life Assurance
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program) – We work with experts to support you on all aspects of your Wellbeing: Physical, Mental and Financial.
• AND - we have also implemented Hybrid working into our HQ’s in London Bridge and Littlehampton, West Sussex, where our teams spend 4 days a fortnight.

If you are excited by all that - you might just be the sort of person we need to help us make the impactful change the world needs within a business that invented the culture of ‘joyful collective' and everything that means and stands for.

The Body Shop

When Anita Roddick founded The Body Shop in 1976, she had a vision. Business as a force for good – that’s us. Over 40 years later, we’re proud to be pioneering cruelty-free beauty every step of the way. We’re the original ethical beauty brand. We’ve got a thing for empowering people and enriching our planet. We’re all about keeping it real, in every way possible. Our activist roots remain a huge part of everything we do, from our iconic window posters to our vegetarian products to our infamous campaigns. We’re never afraid to stand up and speak the truth. We like to do things a little differently around here.

The Body Shop, along with Aesop and Natura, is part of Natura & Co, a global, multi-channel and multi-brand cosmetics group that is committed to generating positive economic, social and environmental impact. Group owner Natura is Brazil's number one cosmetics manufacturer. Sustainable development has been the company's guiding principle since it was founded in 1969. In fact, this is an incredibly exciting time for The Body Shop. We’re fighting for what we believe in now more than ever. No holding back. Breaking the mould has always come naturally to us, and we need someone who’s not afraid to mix things up.

Diversity Statement

At The Body Shop, we firmly believe that equality is a human right and that all people should have an equal opportunity to pursue their dreams and aspirations. We are committed to attracting, developing, and retaining the very best people by offering a creative and inclusive workplace where talent is recognized. We value diversity and consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. We are proud to have a number of different active employee inclusion networks that serve not just as catalysts for change, but also to build a spirit of diversity, equality, inclusivity, and provide safe supportive spaces for engagement and solidarity for members of these communities. The Body Shop is also committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs and activities. To request a reasonable accommodation, please let us know in your application or email us at uk.recruitment@thebodyshop.com