About the opportunity

Advance Thinking is seeking a Product Owner Lead for a contract opportunity with a major insurer undertaking a commercial insurance modernisation programme.

You’ll combine product ownership with practical delivery leadership, helping a team deliver capabilities used across multiple insurance product lines. The role involves negotiating competing priorities, coordinating dependencies and working with business stakeholders and an implementation partner to deliver changes from requirements through to implementation.

We welcome applications from experienced Product Owners, delivery leaders and Business Analysts who can demonstrate delivery accountability and strong stakeholder negotiation skills.

What you’ll be doing

- Own and prioritise the backlog for shared platform capabilities, enhancements and remediation.
- Translate business needs into clear requirements, outcomes and achievable delivery priorities.
- Negotiate priorities across finance, pricing, data and analytics, underwriting, product and distribution teams.
- Coordinate dependencies and delivery opportunities across technology streams and implementation partners.
- Challenge requirements constructively to understand the underlying business outcome and identify practical solutions.
- Work with two Business Analysts and a predominantly offshore delivery squad to deliver changes across business processes, policy and billing systems, data and finance.
- Communicate decisions,



risks and progress clearly to business and technology stakeholders.

What you’ll bring

- Experience in product ownership, delivery leadership or business analysis with accountability for delivering change.
- Strong backlog management, prioritisation and requirements skills.
- Confidence negotiating competing stakeholder needs and making informed trade-offs.
- Experience managing delivery dependencies in a complex environment.
- Experience working with implementation partners and offshore teams.
- An understanding of business value, risk and compliance in insurance, banking or a comparable financial services environment.
- Clear communication and the ability to build effective working relationships across business and technology.

Insurance experience is highly regarded. Guidewire experience is beneficial, with technical guidance provided by platform specialists.

Contract and working arrangements

- Contract to 30 June 2027 (likely to be extended)
- Candidates based in Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne are welcome.
- Versatile hybrid arrangements, with office attendance discussed with the successful candidate.
- Collaboration with an offshore delivery team, with working arrangements discussed during the recruitment process.
- Competitive rates.

Apply Please submit your CV highlighting your experience delivering across teams, negotiating competing priorities and working with implementation partners.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received.

📌 Product Owner Lead (Sydney)
🏢 Advance Thinking
📍 Sydney