Senior Product Owner

Our not-so-secret sauce.

Award-winning, inclusive, Top Workplace culture doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a result of hard work by extraordinary people. More than 9,000 of the industry’s brightest talent drive our efforts to deliver purposeful work and meaningful impact every day. Learn more about what makes us different and how you can thrive as a Senior Technology Product Owner at MMA.

Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) provides business insurance, employee health & benefits, retirement, and private client insurance solutions to organizations and individuals seeking limitless possibilities. With 170 offices across North America, we combine the personalized service model of a local consultant with the global resources of the world’s leading professional services firm, Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC).

A day in the life.

As a Senior Product Owner on the MMA Application Development team, you will define and prioritize features for essential applications that enhance colleague and client experiences. Collaborating with stakeholders, you will gather requirements and refine the product roadmap while working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure a shared understanding of product needs. Utilizing Agile methodologies, you will participate in sprint planning and backlog grooming, communicate product updates, manage expectations, and gather feedback to drive continuous improvement, all while applying your analytical skills to uphold MMA's technology standards throughout the software development life cycle.

Our future colleague.

We’d love to meet you if your professional track record includes these skills:

• Review and align the product roadmap with the organization’s strategic goals and objectives.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, including business users and executives, to gather feedback, prioritize features, and refine the product roadmap.

• Conduct meetings to gather requirements for new features or enhancements to existing applications.

• Analyze user needs, market trends, and the competitive landscape to identify opportunities for product improvements and innovation.

• Engage with cross-functional teams, including designers and developers, to ensure a shared understanding of product requirements and priorities.

• Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members to drive efficient product development.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning and backlog grooming, to provide guidance and prioritize product features.

• Work with the development team to ensure user stories are well-defined, estimated, and aligned with the product vision.

• Communicate product updates, progress, and timelines to stakeholders, including executives and end-users.

• Address stakeholder concerns, gather feedback, and manage expectations to ensure alignment between product strategies and business objectives.

• Monitor product adoption and gather user feedback to drive continuous improvement and enhance the user experience.

• You will provide coaching and support to other Technology Product Owners ensuring that they operate well as a team and foster a culture of ownership and respect

• You may be asked to be a line manager to 1 or more Technology Product Owners

Technical skills or qualifications required:

• Experience of a wide range of Technology roles is desirable, ideally with some form of development engineering background

• Rounded and holistic understanding of Agile Methodologies

• Excellent stakeholder management skills

• Insurance Functional domain knowledge and experience of managing related products

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh McLennan Agency, a business of Marsh, is a leading provider of business insurance, employee health & benefits, retirement & wealth, and private client insurance solutions across North America. Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmma.com, or follow on LinkedIn. 

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, caste, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh McLennan offers hybrid working arrangements that provide both the flexibility of mobile working and the benefits for collaboration, personal connections and professional development of working in the office. Employees are authorized to work remotely. If needed, some teams also schedule weekly “anchor days” where the entire team meets in person at the site office.