Senior Specialist Product Owner at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

Support Lead: Product Owner in guiding the development and execution of the strategic roadmap. Represent the business in all projects required to execute on the vision and strategy of the division. Work with cross-functional teams to ensure strategic projects are delivered and business needs are fully met.

Implementation and execution of new and existing products, processes and features to meet strategic targets and enhance the organisations presence within the market.

• Support in the development of the divison’s vision and project roadmap by working with senior leadership to set the strategic direction.
• Participate in business planning to ensure alignment between business roadmap and agreed business cases.
• Work with solutions analysts and engineers to ensure business needs are fully catered for in solutions being designed.
• Represent business in strategic project teams.
• Have sufficient knowledge of the business to make quick decisions in project teams and be able to prioritise the development work being requested of IT.
• Develop a deep understanding of the processes, product features and systems in the areas of the business that allocated projects relate to.
• Manage the prioritisation of requirements within a wider project. Ensure proper consultation and communication with business around priorities.
• Develop business specifications for features and defects. Translate these requirements into stories that developers can execute on.
• Provide any clarifications on requirements necessary to assist the team in their delivery.
• Identify and facilitate the elimination of any bottlenecks or areas of concern within projects to ensure the execution of the strategy.
• Feedback to business on project status throughout the lifetime of the project. Quantify and report on the benefits of the delivered solution.
• Coordinate dependencies with other POs to prioritise effectively and plot an achievable roadmap
• Demonstrate passionate, innovative, and forward-thinking mindset which takes the organisation forward.
• Advocate and enabler for business agility.

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree in Business, Commerce or Information Systems.
• 5-10 years financial services experience. Short term insurance advantageous.
• 2 years’ experience in people management and leading teams. Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio Etc
• Familiarity and experience in Agile/Scrum/Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Certification in Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Product Management, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Design thinking and Business Analysis or JIRA advantageous.
• Strong Stakeholder Management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and are comfortable presenting work to executives including large groups.
• Attention to detail and problem-Solving skills.

Skills

Education

Closing Date

09 December 2022