Senior Technology Product Owner

Senior Technology Product Owner

Are you ready to take ownership of a critical technology estate that underpins safe and resilient Marine operations? As a Senior Technology Product Owner, you'll drive the strategy, roadmap, and investment decisions for technology supporting VTS, GPCC, Dockmaster, waterways, and remote port operations, working across Marine Operations, Technology, OT, Cyber, Engineering, and suppliers to deliver a secure, reliable, and future-ready service.

Your Role

As the Senior Technology Product Owner, you will provide strategic ownership and decision-making for the technology that underpins Marine traffic management, VTS, GPCC, Dockmaster, waterways, and remote port operations. Reporting to the Head of Marine products, you will be responsible for setting the product roadmap, managing risk and resilience, guiding investment and lifecycle decisions, and ensuring technology services remain safe, secure, reliable, and aligned to operational needs.

Working closely with Marine Operations, Technology, OT, Cyber, Engineering, Data teams, and external suppliers, you will bring structure and governance to a complex environment, balancing operational priorities, risk, resilience, and long-term value. You will play a key role in driving a proactive, strategically managed technology capability that supports business continuity and the safe operation of critical marine services.

What you’ll bring

You'll bring proven experience working in safety-critical, operationally focused, or technically complex environments, with the ability to provide clear ownership and direction across a diverse technology landscape. You will combine broad technical awareness with strong judgement, enabling you to balance risk, resilience, lifecycle requirements, investment priorities, and business value.

You will be confident working across Marine Operations, Technology, OT, Cyber, Engineering, and supplier teams, building effective relationships and influencing decisions across organisational boundaries. You'll have the ability to challenge constructively, translate technical and operational insight into clear priorities, and establish the governance, accountability, and control needed to support safe, resilient, and efficient marine operations.

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator.  We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers.  Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040.  Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers.  Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays)
• Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!
• Commitment to learning and personal development – Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required