Product Owner – Fixed Term Contract

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The salary for this role is £54,000.

This role is being offered on a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract.

Are you an experienced Product Owner who can balance user needs, business priorities, and service delivery within a fast-paced environment?

Do you enjoy working across multi-disciplinary teams to shape end-to-end services, manage backlogs, and drive continuous improvement?

Can you lead stakeholder engagement, define service roadmaps, and deliver data-driven products and services within complex multi-stakeholder environments?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control, whilst enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people, who share in our values.

As a Product Owner at LI, you will be responsible for defining and maintaining a cohesive scope for service delivery within the wider Livestock Information Service (LIS) programme.

You will lead the definition and agreement of end-to-end service scope, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and user needs. In addition, you will develop and maintain the service blueprint and roadmap, ensuring that epics, features, and user stories are clearly defined, prioritised, and approved across all services, products, and processes.

You will also be accountable for establishing and maintaining a comprehensive release plan to support the successful and timely delivery of all components.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include

  • Defining the vision and scope of future services, ensuring alignment with user needs and improvements to traceability quality
  • Developing end-to-end customer journeys, outlining how different user groups will interact with the multi-species system
  • Translating service propositions into clear personas, user needs, and user stories to support design and delivery
  • Creating and maintaining a service blueprint, release roadmap, and a single prioritised backlog of work
  • Ensuring alignment of the service blueprint with the overarching LI blueprint, working collaboratively with other Product Owners and the COO
  • Identifying and defining all third-party touchpoints, ensuring effective integration across service components
  • Driving efficiency improvements within the target service model
  • Collaborating closely with technical and data teams to define and deliver service dependencies
  • Working with other service teams to ensure seamless delivery within a wider multi-species ecosystem
  • Partnering with test and transition teams to ensure well-planned and successfully executed releases
  • Supporting the wider team in identifying and managing change, risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and dependencies

We are looking for someone with the following

  • Proven experience in a Product Owner role, ideally within a start-up or fast-paced environment
  • Demonstrable experience designing and implementing changes in complex, multi-user and multi-stakeholder environments with competing priorities
  • Strong track record of delivering data-driven services focused on user needs and service quality
  • Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams across the full product lifecycle, from discovery through to live service
  • Ability to think creatively and translate user needs into end-to-end service design
  • Self‑motivated with strong organisational and structured thinking skills, able to provide clarity and direction in a rapidly evolving environment
  • Excellent project management capabilities, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
  • Strong interpersonal, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills, with experience operating in complex or politically sensitive environments
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and align a wide range of stakeholders
  • Experience designing end-to-end service blueprints, developing roadmaps, and managing prioritised backlogs

Benefits

  • A fully remote and flexible working set up
  • 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to maximum of 30 days (plus Bank Holidays)
  • 1 Privilege Day
  • 4 x annual salary Life Assurance
  • Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General
  • Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
  • Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities
  • 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme
  • A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued

Livestock Information Ltd. does not discriminate based on race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

Livestock Information Ltd. cannot sponsor work visas at this time.

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The salary for this role is £54,000.

This role is being offered on a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract.

Are you an experienced Product Owner who can balance user needs, business priorities, and service delivery within a fast-paced environment?

Do you enjoy working across multi-disciplinary teams to shape end-to-end services, manage backlogs, and drive continuous improvement?

Can you lead stakeholder engagement, define service roadmaps, and deliver data-driven products and services within complex multi-stakeholder environments?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control, whilst enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people, who share in our values.

As a Product Owner at LI, you will be responsible for defining and maintaining a cohesive scope for service delivery within the wider Livestock Information Service (LIS) programme.

You will lead the definition and agreement of end-to-end service scope, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and user needs. In addition, you will develop and maintain the service blueprint and roadmap, ensuring that epics, features, and user stories are clearly defined, prioritised, and approved across all services, products, and processes.

You will also be accountable for establishing and maintaining a comprehensive release plan to support the successful and timely delivery of all components.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include

  • Defining the vision and scope of future services, ensuring alignment with user needs and improvements to traceability quality
  • Developing end-to-end customer journeys, outlining how different user groups will interact with the multi-species system
  • Translating service propositions into clear personas, user needs, and user stories to support design and delivery
  • Creating and maintaining a service blueprint, release roadmap, and a single prioritised backlog of work
  • Ensuring alignment of the service blueprint with the overarching LI blueprint, working collaboratively with other Product Owners and the COO
  • Identifying and defining all third-party touchpoints, ensuring effective integration across service components
  • Driving efficiency improvements within the target service model
  • Collaborating closely with technical and data teams to define and deliver service dependencies
  • Working with other service teams to ensure seamless delivery within a wider multi-species ecosystem
  • Partnering with test and transition teams to ensure well-planned and successfully executed releases
  • Supporting the wider team in identifying and managing change, risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and dependencies

We are looking for someone with the following

  • Proven experience in a Product Owner role, ideally within a start-up or fast-paced environment
  • Demonstrable experience designing and implementing changes in complex, multi-user and multi-stakeholder environments with competing priorities
  • Strong track record of delivering data-driven services focused on user needs and service quality
  • Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams across the full product lifecycle, from discovery through to live service
  • Ability to think creatively and translate user needs into end-to-end service design
  • Self‑motivated with strong organisational and structured thinking skills, able to provide clarity and direction in a rapidly evolving environment
  • Excellent project management capabilities, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
  • Strong interpersonal, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills, with experience operating in complex or politically sensitive environments
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and align a wide range of stakeholders
  • Experience designing end-to-end service blueprints, developing roadmaps, and managing prioritised backlogs

Benefits

  • A fully remote and flexible working set up
  • 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to maximum of 30 days (plus Bank Holidays)
  • 1 Privilege Day
  • 4 x annual salary Life Assurance
  • Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General
  • Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
  • Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities
  • 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme
  • A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued

Livestock Information Ltd. does not discriminate based on race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

Livestock Information Ltd. cannot sponsor work visas at this time.

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Posted: May 12th, 2026