Clarity Product Owner at MultiChoice

Purpose of the Position:

• The purpose of this position is to drive complete ownership of the product, ensuring that it is optimally managed, maximizing and delivering strategic value to the organisation and all stakeholders.
• Key Performance Objectives

Tasks

Product Ownership

• Represents the users of the system and is central to every development cycle related to the product.
• Responsible for defining and prioritizing the product backlog with key stakeholders.
• Participate in planning the sprints and managing the product backlog.
• Execute the responsibilities of the product, and various decisions around the product including
• Definition of the goals and vision for development projects
• Providing the business requirements to the solution teams
• Participating in SCRUM sessions and signing off the iterative solutions
• Accountable for all business rule decisions within the project
• Takes ownership of the product backlog, and ensures the backlog is in line with the various business requirements and prioritization
• Responsible for innovation and launch of product/s
• Partner with stakeholders and customers from across MAL to inform the product vision and strategy
• Develop strategic roadmap of product features and enhancements and manage delivery thereof
• Develop and maintain tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch/implementation to evaluate and measure past and future investment
• Works alongside Scrum Masters to ensure clear and concise understanding of the business requirements
• Attends all SCRUM standups, retrospectives and demo’s in respect of every sprint.
• Acts as conduit between SME’s, Market representatives, Business Operations, Testing, and the Project Team by Providing key business direction and decisions
• Implement the Business Requirements Ensuring that the product retains strategic value
• Accountable for the business data and responsible for the quality of the data as product owner
• Accountable for Process Mapping and Assisting with Operational and Business Readiness for countries
• Management of sub-functions such as data clean-up and configuration clean-up in source data Systems
• Accountable for User Acceptance Testing for Continuity and Project
• Accountable for governance, risk and compliance of the product. This includes identity and access management
• Align with and feed into the demand management process
• Manage product defects and enhancements
• Corporate account management
• Product/System support
• Act as custodian of product data

Qualifications

• BSc Computer Science or BCom Information Systems
• Agile Methodology
   

Experience

• 4+ years relevant experience as a systems product owner
• Proven track record in end-to-end product/systems management and development
• Experience in managing and leading business partners and vendors to drive product strategy, governance, and operations.
• In-depth knowledge and experience of Agile processes and principles
   

Technical Competencies

• Creative, visionary thinker
• Results driven
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Initiate, manage and prioritize multiple programmes/projects
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written & verbal)
• Strong negotiation skills
• Effective risk management
• Strong human capital management abilities
• High levels of creativity & innovation
• Product, services & market feasibility analysis skills

Behavioral Competencies

• Analytical Thinking
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Stakeholder management
• Attention to detail
• Self-motivated
• Critical reasoning
• Coaching