Product Owner, Strategic Partnerships

Closing date for applications: 09/07/2026

Location Manchester, United Kingdom

Salary £61,000 – £91,500

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Mostly Remote

You’ll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll come into an office or hub at least twice a month to collaborate with your colleagues.

Managerial / Technical Lead

This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.

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Job description

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a Product Owner, Strategic Partnerships

• If you have a passion to design, run and deliver the digital banking of the future, working with strategic external partners, this could be the role for you
• You’ll continually identify opportunities to digitise, improve and manage the customer experience so that it's effortless and delivers value to our customers
• This is your opportunity to drive improved business performance and customer proposition activities, making sure our products run with true commercial focus

What you'll do

Through your role as a Product Owner, you’ll drive and deliver a prioritised journey backlog to improve the service we deliver to our customers, identifying opportunities and providing your expertise.

Day-to-day, you’ll be

• Monitoring relevant competitor activity across the product portfolio and actively identifying responses to market changes
• Leading third party tender, contract and commercial negotiations on behalf of the product business area
• Undertaking partnership scouting and relationship development with non-contracted partners
• Identifying and assessing future opportunities for innovation and business value
• Striving to deliver a world-class customer experience and placing the customer at the heart of all we do
• Making empowered decisions to deliver the prioritised digital journey backlog

The skills you'll need

You’ll be a subject matter expert in Retail baking, financial performance and customer service. You’ll have excellent knowledge of critical Agile capabilities and ways of working, as well as the ability to exercise change, commercial management and analytics.

We’ll also expect

• Significant leadership experience, working with external partners to deliver customer service improvements and business value
• Strong experience of procurement, contract negotiations, planning and execution
• The ability to assess and triangulate customer benefits, with bank value alongside intelligent risk taking
• People leadership experience of direct line management and coaching
• The ability to identify and envision what the future of digital banking could look like
• A proven ability to adapt to quickly changing environments
• A talented communicator who can inspire and engage both customers and colleagues

Your benefits breakdown

Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

Please note, the presented benefits packages are based on the minimum base salary.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

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Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

Total rewards package

Welcome to our Spinningfields hub

Spinningfields is Manchester’s leading leisure, retail, and business district and home to some of the most incredible architecture, restaurants, flagship stores, and bars the city has to offer.

Key facts

• Space for 1,345 colleagues from various teams across the bank
• Our outdoor roof terrace has panoramic views of the city
• Opened in 2023