Product Owner Service

B2B Freelance available

The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role.
Start Date: 15-10-2026
End Date: 31-12-2027
Mode: Onsite
Location: Monnoyeur, Belgium
Languages: French or Dutch mandatory
Note: Only for EU citizens

About the mission:

• Generate and manage high-quality maintenance, replacement and risk-mitigation needs;
• Define, validate and improve the rules and data used to generate asset needs;
• Increase transparency on prioritisation, costs, risks and generation results;
• Identify anomalies and data-quality issues and translate them into sustainable improvements;
• Evolve towards more automated, integrated and data-driven ways of working.

Service description:

• Support the Product Owner in shaping and delivering the ANM product roadmap in line with customer needs and company objectives;
• Take end-to-end ownership of selected product topics, from problem framing and stakeholder alignment to validation and implementation follow-up;
• Analyse, challenge and improve maintenance, replacement and risk-mitigation processes and translate them into scalable product capabilities;
• Define, document, test and validate the generation rules and decision logic used to create asset needs;
• Use Python to analyse datasets, reproduce results, validate hypotheses, investigate anomalies and challenge business logic;
• Identify data-quality issues, assess their business impact and coordinate appropriate corrective actions;
• Facilitate workshops with Asset Managers, domain experts and other stakeholders, bringing structure to complex or ambiguous topics;
• Act as the bridge between Asset Management, Product, Data and IT, ensuring shared understanding of objectives, priorities and expected outcomes;
• Prepare clear recommendations, product documentation, decision material and stakeholder communications;
• Support backlog preparation, refinement and prioritisation, ensuring that product items are clear, valuable and ready for delivery;
• Support testing, release preparation, deployment, user adoption and continuous improvement;
• Monitor product quality and business outcomes and recommend improvements based on facts, user feedback and data;
• Ensure continuity of product activities and, when required, act as deputy for the Product Owner in stakeholder alignment, backlog decisions, delivery follow-up and product ceremonies. xlxgzvr

Requirements:

• You bring relevant experience in product delivery, digital transformation, process optimisation, data-driven decision support or comparable roles;
• You have proven experience working at the intersection of operational business, technology and data, preferably in an industrial, infrastructure, utility or asset-intensive environment;
• You have strong hands-on Python expertise and are comfortable using code to investigate complex business questions;
• You are able to turn ambiguous operational challenges into clear options, recommendations and actionable product outcomes;
• You communicate complex topics clearly and can influence senior stakeholders without formal authority;
• You are autonomous, pragmatic, curious and comfortable taking ownership in a fast-evolving environment;
• You combine strategic perspective with a hands-on mentality and are willing to go deep into processes, rules, data and implementation details;
• You have strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder-management and presentation skills;
• You are comfortable contributing to backlog prioritisation, roadmap planning, product ceremonies and delivery decisions;
• Experience in Asset Management, maintenance engineering, reliability engineering, Enterprise Asset Management or asset decision-support solutions is a strong asset;
• Experience with Power BI or modern data platforms is an asset;
• Language skills: professional proficiency in English; knowledge of Dutch and/or French.