Job description
In this position you will structure section of the Mass Foundation Cluster which is one of the greatest customer-facing commercial enterprise segments in Old Mutual. Our imaginative and prescient is to be our clients’ most relied on economic partner, passionate about assisting them attain their existence goals. Our mission is to allow nice futures for our consumers by means of bridging the hole between their sources and their economic provider needs. Our principal intention is to facilitate get entry to to economic options for our clients and hold tempo with their altering needs. Our goal market is the low and rising center profits segment.
This function exists inside the MFC Business Change Execution (BCE) region and is exceptionally accountable for working carefully with the Product Manager and/or Business Owner and enter into the approach and product imaginative and prescient through focusing efforts on the crew to force shipping that meet customers’ needs. . This function will document to the Product Owner Competency Lead.
The Product Owner works with the groups to take enterprise necessities request in the structure of EPICS or Features, the Product Owner works carefully with initiative and transport groups to articulate and decompose the demand requirement into testimonies with acceptance standards that are submitted to the EPIC – or Meet Feature Requirements.
The Product Owner accepts all stories/requirements written with the aid of the group and ensures that stakeholder (demand) expectations are correctly managed. To acquire this, the Product Owner ought to have (or develop) deep technical know-how of how merchandise are constructed and designed as they are embedded in the teams. There is frequently overlap in roles between Product Managers/Business Owners and Product Owners – both can have enter into Strategy, Execution and Customer Insight. The product manager/business proprietor has ordinary accountability for representing the customer, imaginative and prescient and strategy, whilst the product proprietor has basic accountability for working with the groups to recognize the product vision as aligned with approach and to supply the agreed plans feed.
The Product Owner is accountable for tremendous product backlog administration which consists of however is now not restrained to:
Collaboration and verbal exchange of the product objective,
Creation, upkeep and verbal exchange of the product backlog demand/items,
Prioritization and sequencing of the product backlog question/items,
Ensure that the product backlog question/items are transparent, seen and nicely understood.
Active involvement with a sure team, A.R.T & portfolio degree meetings: Refinement and writing of features/story (as required), PI planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint reviews, Retrospectives and Planning, Product Owner, A.R.T. and administration hazard synchronization.
Ensure alignment between work delivered and stakeholder expectations as described in the EPIC, Feature and/or required query objectives,
Accountable for the long-term and temporary product roadmap.
Understand and be actively worried in helping the Scrum Master to allow the group to unravel obstacles.
To successfully speak dangers to stakeholders.
Communicate and align with different product proprietors when inter-team dependencies and variances are required to be resolved.
Make every day selections that will information the team’s shipping and enhance methods that grant the crew with decisional autonomy.
An essential thing of the function is being reachable to reply questions from the team. Questions can occur at any time and any lengthen will have an effect on the team’s potential to deliver. The most profitable deliveries have absolutely concerned product owners who work every day as an crucial section of the team.
The Product Owner will make selections at the crew stage to get work done. The Product Owner will characterize the desires and necessities of the Product Manager/Business Owner and/or different stakeholders and ought to join and work carefully with this crew to make certain alignment.
Requirements
An undergraduate qualification in Information Systems / Business Analysis or similar.
Agile and applicable Product Owner/Product Manager certifications.
5 years plus journey in planning, analysis, graph and implementation of enterprise and IT initiatives.
Established and demonstrable talent in iterative development, appreciation of agile concepts (including Scale Agile), and prioritization and sequencing techniques.
Exceptional conversation abilities and the capacity to speak as it should be at all ranges of the organization; this consists of written and oral conversation as properly as visualization.
Good interpersonal skills, inclusive of influencing and persuasion skills. Collaborate successfully with others to obtain private and crew results.
Team participant who can work efficiently at all stages of an enterprise with the potential to have an impact on others to cross closer to consensus.
Strong situational evaluation and decision-making abilities.
A strategic thinker who is purchaser centric
Pro-active, revolutionary and innovative thinker who can suppose backyard the box.
A strong stability of technical expertise and commercial enterprise acumen with a choice for insurance, monetary and retail environments.
Skills
Communication, choice making, innovation, interpersonal interactions, proactive approach, strategic thinking, teamwork, questioning outdoor the box
Education
Closing date
January 23, 2024
