Description
Senior Product Owner - Anderlecht - French and Dutch speaking - Freelance
Primary Tasks and responsibilities
Develop a thorough understanding of the business objectives and processes to make informed product prioritization and improvement recommendations.
Build a strong relationship and communicate regularly with the product stakeholders and customers to shape the product strategy and to identify and prioritize needs.
Leading the product strategy, planning and life cycle management activities. Monitor business, market, and technology trends to keep product strategy up-to-date and proactively propose new solutions.
Create product roadmaps and release plans that meet customer needs and achieve business objectives. Translating business needs into concrete product and technical needs.
Translate the product needs into concrete Product backlogs for the product squads, possibly supported by 'Client Value - Integration' for multi-product needs or for non-standard requests.
Monitor product performance on a regular basis and proactively start activities to improve the products. Determine internal and external resources and skills needed for the product team to deliver the product roadmap, in consultation with the Domain Manager.
Guiding the product engineering team in scoping, planning and delivering work, applying established delivery methodologies (eg Agile methods) and best practices (eg reusability) and defining technical standards.
Proactively identify and resolve obstacles to achieving business objectives for the product, including standardization, technical and resourcing challenges. Ensure alignment and compliance with financial, business and IT standards (eg Architecture, Compliance, Security).
Ensure on a permanent basis that the various stakeholders are aligned with the product that is offered. Make arbitration decisions regarding the functionality that will be provided.
Manage investment decisions and finances for the product, with a return-on-investment approach to increase value while minimizing product costs.
Participate in the squad ceremonies to guide them in prioritizing and clarifying customer needs.
Technical profile requirements
+5 years' experience in a Product Owner role in the IT Sector (preferably in networking), or similar through experience in determining and overseeing infrastructure products, related to DB2, MS SQL, F5, CRM Tooling and Web based end-user applications, ACE, Dynatrace, SCOM and ELK Experience in estimating resource requirements for these platforms Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, including experience using data to inform decision-making and solve infrastructure engineering problems.
Strong experience in understanding the needs of business partners and customers.
Proven success in defining and building products. Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information orally and in writing to various stakeholders in a concise manner.
Experience with Jira and Confluence
Very good knowledge of Agile methods, preferably as Product Owner or Scrum Master (ex: Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, SAFe)
Non-Technical profile requirements
Skills for building relationships and collaboration between diverse and Matrix-bound stakeholders and customers.
Ability to surface, prioritize, and balance multiple stakeholder priorities.
Strong project management skills to manage multiple projects and deadlines at the same time.
Knowledge of the Agile way of working (POs, Squads, Ceremonies, Agile Mindset, ...) Expertise in strategic thinking and strong business acumen.
People management, entrepreneurship, analytical mindset, team player, ..
Language proficiencies
Fluent in Dutch is mandatory
Professional working knowledge of French Professional working knowledge in English
Location
Anderlecht