Product Owner: Loyalty Analytics at Brolink

CAREER OPPORTUNITY
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Product Owner to join our Risk and Marketing Department. We are looking for a product owner who is technically strong, loves working with and influencing people and easily enables stakeholders to manage their own expectations. The product owner will manage the Websure vision and prioritisation of the backlog with one of our customer pods. The role is based in Centurion.

JOB DESCRIPTION
Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Build relationships with key employees among customers and internal stakeholders
•  Developing and adapting the Websure vision with our customers
•  Defining, refining and splitting user stories
•  Specifying acceptance criteria
•  Grooming and prioritising the backlog
•  Collaborating with other product owners and managers for strategic alignment on Websure changes
•  Regular engagement with stakeholders
•  Strategic reporting on project progress
•  Measuring and providing feedback to the company about the progress
•  Learning about and upskilling Brolink on Agile
•  Help our customer and pod focus on defining and delivering on the Minimal Viable Product
•  Ensuring continuous improvement within the customer pod
•   Obtaining and providing regular feedback

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Qualification
Minimum Requirements:

•  Matric;
•  Post-matric education with subjects related to IT, project management and business
• Preferred qualifications:
•  Formal qualification in project management, e.g. PMI;
•  University education with business-related subjects;
•  Certificate of Competence (Short-term insurance) or better

Work Experience
Minimum Requirements:

•  10 years working experience in financial services in a role that includes regular interaction between IT and business
• Preferably, in addition to the above:
•  Working experience in the short-term insurance industry;
•  Hands-on experience in JIRA or similar Agile tools

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Minimum Requirements:

•  Good appreciation of information technology concepts;
•  In-depth understanding of the various phases in a software development life cycle
•  In-depth understanding of transaction processing systems in the financial sector
• Preferably, in addition to the above:
•  In-depth understanding of insurance systems

ATTRIBUTES

Attributes required for the position include but are not limited to:

•  Business acumen
•  Visionary
•  Soft skills and emotional intelligence
•  Technically minded
•  Customer empathic
•  Open minded
•  Communicative
•  Decisive
•  Respectful and firm
•  Highly committed
•  Strong negotiation skills
•  Continuous learning
•  Resilient
•  Change leadership