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Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.\nWe have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.\nJohn Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.\n At John Crane, we are accelerating the growth of our digital solutions portfolio through innovative condition monitoring and predictive maintenance technologies. We are looking for a Product Owner to drive the execution and delivery of our John Crane Sense portfolio, including Sense Monitor and Sense Turbo.\nReporting to the Digital Director, you will play a critical role in translating product strategy into executable plans, ensuring successful delivery of quarterly roadmaps while coordinating internal teams, external suppliers, and software development partners. You will act as the bridge between product strategy and execution, managing priorities, delivery schedules, product backlogs, and stakeholder expectations to ensure high-quality product releases.\nThis is an exciting opportunity for an individual who thrives in Agile environments and enjoys working at the intersection of technology, operations, and customer value.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nProduct Delivery & Roadmap Execution\nOwn and deliver quarterly roadmap commitments for the John Crane Sense portfolio.\nTranslate product priorities into actionable user stories, sprint plans, and delivery activities.\nManage and prioritise product backlogs to ensure alignment with agreed business objectives.\nSupport the successful delivery of both Performance+ and Aftermarket growth initiatives.\nTrack progress against delivery milestones and proactively address risks and dependencies.\nAgile Product Ownership\nWork closely with software development teams to define, refine, and prioritise requirements.\nLead backlog grooming, sprint planning, and delivery reviews.\nMake day-to-day delivery and sprint-level prioritisation decisions within agreed roadmap objectives.\nEnsure development activities align with business priorities and customer needs.\nSupplier & Partner Management\nAct as the primary day-to-day interface for key technology partners and suppliers.\nCoordinate activities across offshore software teams and external partners including Tribosonics and Sensoteq.\nMonitor supplier performance and ensure timely completion of agreed deliverables.\nDrive accountability and responsiveness across all delivery partners.\nStakeholder Engagement\nCollaborate with Product Management, Product Operations, Engineering, Compliance, and Digital leadership teams.\nProvide clear communication of project status, risks, dependencies, and delivery timelines.\nBuild strong relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organisation.\nSupport governance activities and ensure alignment with wider digital strategy.\nQuality, Compliance & Continuous Improvement\nSupport certification and compliance activities associated with product releases.\nDrive improvements in release quality, stability, and reliability.\nMinimise defects through effective planning, testing, and stakeholder collaboration.\nChampion continuous improvement across product delivery processes.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nDelivery Excellence\nQuarterly roadmap commitments delivered on time.\nAchievement of sprint objectives and delivery milestones.\nEffective management of risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges.\nReduction in delivery slippage and execution delays.\nProduct Quality\nImproved release stability and reliability.\nReduced defect leakage into production environments.\nSuccessful support of certification and compliance activities.\nSupplier Performance\nTimely closure of supplier actions and commitments.\nImproved responsiveness and accountability from delivery partners.\nEffective coordination of external technology providers.\nStakeholder Satisfaction\nClear and proactive communication.\nHigh confidence in delivery planning and execution.\nStrong collaboration across internal and external stakeholder groups.\n Experience as a Product Owner, Delivery Lead, Business Analyst, Project Manager, or similar role.\nProven experience working within Agile delivery environments.\nStrong expertise in backlog management using Jira.\nExperience coordinating offshore software development teams.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.\nStrong stakeholder management and supplier engagement skills.\nExcellent written and verbal communication abilities.\nA proactive, delivery-focused mindset with strong problem-solving capability.\nDesirable\nExperience with connected products, IoT solutions, industrial software, or condition monitoring technologies.\nUnderstanding of hardware and software integration.\nExperience supporting certification and compliance activities.\nKnowledge of rotating equipment, reliability engineering, or industrial analytics.\nProduct Owner certification such as PSPO, CSPO, or equivalent Agile qualification.\n With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity.\nAcross our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network.\nJoin us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future.\nWe believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.\nAt no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation - including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. 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