Senior Product Owner

Job Description:

Job Title: R1231419 Senior Product Owner

Job Grade: D17

Location: Willow House, Staines, Bupa Place, Manchester or Angel Court, London
Working Pattern: Flexible / Hybrid Working – 3 Days WFH
Type: Permanent, Full Time (37.5 Hours per Week)
Salary: £66,200 DOE and location plus fantastic benefits

About the Role

Make Health Happen

Shape the Future of AI and Automation at Bupa

At Bupa, we're using AI, automation and emerging technologies to create better experiences for our customers and colleagues. We're looking for an experienced Senior Product Owner to help drive this transformation by leading a portfolio of strategic AI and automation products that deliver real business value.

This is a senior leadership role where you'll set product direction, influence investment decisions, and bring together business and technology teams to deliver innovative solutions at scale. You'll play a key role in shaping how AI, intelligent automation and agentic technologies are adopted across Bupa.

What Success Looks Like

You'll help create a strategically aligned portfolio of AI and automation products that deliver measurable customer, colleague and commercial value. You'll drive adoption, improve product maturity, influence enterprise-wide decision-making and play a leading role in Bupa's AI and Automation strategy.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own and lead a portfolio of AI and automation products, defining vision, strategy and roadmaps.
• Translate business priorities into clear product outcomes and measurable value.
• Lead product discovery to identify the highest-impact automation opportunities.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, data and business teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Drive evidence-based prioritisation, investment decisions and value realisation.
• Coach and support Product Owners while helping mature product management practices across the function.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and influence strategic decision-making.
• Champion responsible AI, governance and risk management throughout the product lifecycle.

What We're Looking For

Essential Experience

• Significant experience as a Lead Product Owner, Senior Product Owner, Product Manager or similar senior product leadership role.
• A track record of delivering complex digital, technology, automation or AI products.
• Experience defining product strategies and multi-year roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of modern product management and Agile ways of working.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary product teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness with a focus on delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Strong prioritisation, decision-making and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience translating complex business challenges into clear product opportunities.

Desirable Experience

• AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI or Machine Learning products.
• Intelligent automation, workflow orchestration or process transformation.
• Product operating model development.
• Portfolio management across multiple products or value streams.
• Highly regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance or financial services.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

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About Us

Be at the heart of helping people live longer healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We employ more than 80,000 people globally who are making this a reality. If you've got the belief, the drive and the talent to help us in our ambition then we’d like to hear from you. Wherever you work, one thing stands out about Bupa people. Our customers are our passion – they’re at the heart of our positively different culture of care. At Bupa you’ll be challenged, you’ll be encouraged to innovate, and collaborate with colleagues who are committed to delivering exceptional experiences. We trust, respect and consider everyone, knowing your difference will make the difference.