Specialist: Commissions Product Owner at Liberty Group South Africa

About the role

• To define stories and prioritize the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent
• Scaled Agile Framework (Leading SAFe, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
• Entry level BA certification
• 2-3 years experience in a similar environment

Key Responsibilities

• Collect information and associated documentation required to effectively process transactions.
• Type, edit and generate a variety of documents and where necessary produce reports according to set standards and prescribed guidelines.
• Plan for, administer and process project management related tasks and activities effectively and efficiently in alignment with performance objectives.
• Contribute to the provision of a comprehensive admin. service through the correct interpretation and application of procedures to optimise delivery.
• Utilise a variety of software packages to produce correspondence and documents and maintain associated records, spreadsheets and databases.
• Collect information for project tracking and status reporting according to defined project reporting standards.
• Accountable for the execution of specialised work including the improvement of quality, standards and outputs within defined work routines and operating procedures.
• Proactively solves problems, determines root-cause and applies solutions in line with guidelines and providing the necessary information to solve problems related to area of specialisation.
• Plan for own task execution and advises on improvements related to area of specialisation.
• Plan for task execution and adjust priorities against an established plan.
• Manage and monitor the implementation of the Agile capability activities and processes in order to deliver on approved operational plans in an effective and efficient manner.
• Proactively identify problems, apply known solutions and escalate more difficult problems, and continuously recommending improvements.
• Accountable for own work quality, standards and outputs related to policies, procedures and defined processes.

Technical Competencies

• Continuous Process Improvement (Basic)
• Communication skills (Fundamental) (Basic)
• Project administration skills (Basic)
• Project process and procedures (Basic)
• Research and Information Gathering (Basic)
• Decision Making and Problem Solving (Basic)
• Business Acumen (Basic)
• Programme And Project Management (Basic)
• Written Communication (Basic)
• Application of digital technologies (Basic)

Behavioural Competencies

• Professional/Technical learning (Basic)
• Interpersonal Effectiveness (Basic)
• Problem Solving and Analysis (Basic)
• Teamwork and Cooperation (Basic)
• Judgment and decision making (Basic)
• Communicating with Impact (Basic)
• Customer Orientation (Basic)