Product Owner
Southern Cross Health Insurance
Date: 1 day ago
City: Auckland, Auckland
Contract type: Full time
About Us
We're a not-for-profit organisation on a mission to transform ourselves and empower New Zealanders to live their healthiest lives.
With almost a million members in our care, we are New Zealand's leading health insurer.
We have an unstoppable focus, delivering outstanding experiences to our members in their time of need. This is an exciting time to be part of our journey and in return for your extraordinary talent, we'll provide a high performing values-based team environment where people are at our heart.
About The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Product Owner to help us enable the successful delivery of critical work within our Modernising value stream.
As a Product Owner in the Te Pūtahitanga squad, working with your Squad Lead and Squad members, you will enable the team to optimise the delivery of value through a clearly articulated and transparent backlog of work.
You will work in partnership with other Product Owners and various teams to align outcomes, resources, and practices that enable organisational agility and the best outcomes for the value stream and Southern Cross.
About The Role
Your squad will contribute to business excellence and financial sustainability by migrating legacy API gateway configurations to a target microservices platform, while working closely with external teams to update the consuming systems. To achieve this goal the squad will also need to support the migration of consuming systems from legacy identity services to Azure B2C.This role will require you to engage closely with our value stream enablers on all aspects of delivery to ensure the business are fully aware, engaged, and prepared for resulting change.
About you:
Join a proud diverse team, that's always there, always real, always true. If you thrive in a caring, honest and open culture, we think you’ll love working with us.
We know that it is our team’s culture and wellbeing that will drive us forward. That’s why we prioritise not only professional development opportunities but opportunities to thrive personally, too. We offer exceptional work/life balance and our employees are encouraged to – and rewarded for – living well.
Southern Cross Employee Benefits Include:
Our commitment to LGBTQIA+ and minority communities is reflected in our culture, and we run a regular Diversity and Inclusion Forum to help ensure this continues to flourish.
If you share our commitment and passion, then apply now!
We're a not-for-profit organisation on a mission to transform ourselves and empower New Zealanders to live their healthiest lives.
With almost a million members in our care, we are New Zealand's leading health insurer.
We have an unstoppable focus, delivering outstanding experiences to our members in their time of need. This is an exciting time to be part of our journey and in return for your extraordinary talent, we'll provide a high performing values-based team environment where people are at our heart.
About The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Product Owner to help us enable the successful delivery of critical work within our Modernising value stream.
As a Product Owner in the Te Pūtahitanga squad, working with your Squad Lead and Squad members, you will enable the team to optimise the delivery of value through a clearly articulated and transparent backlog of work.
You will work in partnership with other Product Owners and various teams to align outcomes, resources, and practices that enable organisational agility and the best outcomes for the value stream and Southern Cross.
About The Role
Your squad will contribute to business excellence and financial sustainability by migrating legacy API gateway configurations to a target microservices platform, while working closely with external teams to update the consuming systems. To achieve this goal the squad will also need to support the migration of consuming systems from legacy identity services to Azure B2C.This role will require you to engage closely with our value stream enablers on all aspects of delivery to ensure the business are fully aware, engaged, and prepared for resulting change.
About you:
- Extensive experience managing complex, large scale projects, driving cross-functional teams to deliver outcomes aligned with business outcomes and key performance indicators.
- Demonstrated mindset of agility and a flexible and adaptive working approach
- Skilled at navigating ambiguity and breaking down large, complex challenges into manageable, actionable pieces of work
- Agile and empowering leadership philosophy and approach
- Inspire your team to stay focused on the big picture—guiding them to rise above the noise, maintain clarity, and deliver with purpose.
- Proven experience in delivering validated customer value through articulating a clear vision, developing product roadmaps and applying data-based insights to make prioritisation decisions
- Excellent stakeholder management experience including the ability to influence effectively and bring people on the journey
Join a proud diverse team, that's always there, always real, always true. If you thrive in a caring, honest and open culture, we think you’ll love working with us.
We know that it is our team’s culture and wellbeing that will drive us forward. That’s why we prioritise not only professional development opportunities but opportunities to thrive personally, too. We offer exceptional work/life balance and our employees are encouraged to – and rewarded for – living well.
Southern Cross Employee Benefits Include:
- five days of wellbeing leave per year
- health insurance for you and your immediate whānau
- life insurance cover and discounts on pet and travel insurance
- extra parental leave benefits and financial wellbeing support
- leading workplace wellbeing programme.
Our commitment to LGBTQIA+ and minority communities is reflected in our culture, and we run a regular Diversity and Inclusion Forum to help ensure this continues to flourish.
If you share our commitment and passion, then apply now!
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