Product Owner

Role: Product Owner

Location:
Belgium Contract duration: 14 months Languages: French and English Work mode: Hybrid (Part time)

Job Description

- The Product Owner contributes to the operational monitoring of one or more projects or business areas and facilitates the implementation of functional changes, particularly in the context of the AGMJ's IT solutions.
- He/she takes charge of the subjects and perimeters entrusted to him/her, from the clarification of needs to business validation and support for their implementation.
- In the exercise of his/her missions, the Product Owner acts in compliance with the governance in place within the AGMJ. Strategic orientations, trade-offs, priorities, structuring business rules and major functional decisions are validated by the competent authorities. The Product Owner prepares the necessary elements for these decisions, ensures their operational follow-up and ensures their proper implementation. Activities As such, he/she:
- Collects and analyzes user needs;
- Analyzes business processes and practices, identifies challenges and proposes improvements and target processes with users;
- Contributes to the writing of user stories, acceptance criteria and functional specifications;
- Verifies, before the subjects are taken over by IT, that the objectives, business rules, special cases and acceptance criteria are sufficiently defined, and coordinates the resolution of open questions;
- Structures and updates the backlog and prepares prioritization proposals;
- Prepares the elements necessary for arbitrations, including possible options, their impacts and points requiring a decision;
- Organizes business decisions and validations: identifies the interlocutors, prepares the questions to be decided, follows the expected answers and ensures the traceability of decisions and their impacts;
- Organises the business review of functional analyses, models and proposals produced by us or service providers, verifies their adequacy to needs and monitors the processing of observations;
- Ensures the functional monitoring of developments and the link with the development teams.
- Ensures the functional monitoring of the progress of developments and reports the points of attention, risks or dependencies identified;
- Ensures the follow-up of commitments between the AGMJ, we and the service providers: keeps up to date the actions, responsibilities and deadlines, carries out reminders and prepares the points requiring arbitration or escalation;
- Organizes and coordinates business testing, including scenario preparation, tester engagement, execution monitoring, anomaly qualification, and correction verification;
- Facilitates communication between business teams, end users and the IT team to ensure a good understanding of needs;
- Prepares and supports the adoption of changes: identifies the users concerned, contributes to instructions and supports, organizes demonstrations and monitors the difficulties encountered after their commissioning;
- Collects user feedback and suggests improvements;
- Capitalizes on and maintains business knowledge relevant to projects: business rules, processes, decisions and reference scenarios, based on existing documentation;
- Defines simple indicators with the business line and monitors the results of the changes delivered in order to evaluate their use and benefits, and to clarify the following priorities;
- Contributes to the monitoring of progress and communication with stakeholders;
- Contributes to the definition and implementation of the strategic orientations of its perimeter, in line with the decisions and orientations validated by the competent bodies of the AGMJ;
- Prepares the elements necessary for arbitrations, formulates recommendations and monitors their implementation after decision;
- Prepares and documents structuring functional decisions, ensures that they are consistent with business needs and ensures their implementation after validation by the competent authorities;
- Prepares backlog prioritization proposals and ensures their execution in accordance with validated priorities;
- Contributes to the formalization, evolution and coherence of structuring business rules with business experts and the authorities concerned;
- Monitors commitments related to the scope for which he/she is responsible, alerts on the risks identified and proposes the necessary measures to control them. Skills
- Agile
- BPMN
- Data Management
- Thinking
- UX Design & Research