Product Owner EMIRATES GLOBAL ALUMINIUM (EGA)

JOB PURPOSE:

A Product Owner creates product roadmap and defines the strategic vision for their team driven by the overall vision. They have a deep understanding of the target market/industry and build close relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that the team’s effort is aligned with overall strategy. A Product Owner manages dependencies with other team’s functions while identifying, building and managing strategic partnership across the different teams. They work closely within their team to ensure business value and user feedback is translated into new developments when necessary. Product owners will be accountable for specific business KPIs based on the area of the product they are focused on

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

▪ Set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate it effectively to stakeholders, the team, and the rest of the unit

▪ End to end team output strategy from inception to production

▪ Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure digital vision and products align within team strategy and requirements

▪ Accountable for product specific KPIs once solution enters production and communicate regular tracking to stakeholders

▪ Utilize market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their team. Maintain a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team

▪ Deliver multiple, concurrent projects and business area backlog items with responsibility for all business change elements

▪ Lead and coordinate change activity, working with lead translators / program managers to maintain a strategic delivery roadmap

▪ Manage projects of varying ‘scale’ as well as business area backlog items from idea through to delivery and closure, adopting proportionate governance and using the established change delivery framework

▪ Maintain momentum and direction, delivering to the agreed scope, timeframe and budget with resource planning and accurate estimation treated as fundamental principles

▪ Practise a progressive stakeholder management approach, building invested relationships, and where appropriate, employing an agreed engagement & communication plan

▪ Actively manage project risks, issues and dependencies ▪ Plan and coordinate work with other internal departments to ensure internal resource requirements are understood and the right resources are available when required

▪ Direct the activities of third-party providers (vendors, consultants etc.), ensuring delivery to time, quality and budget

▪ Report progress to Lead translator and other business senior members through established monthly reporting or equivalent

. ▪ Facilitates release planning with stakeholders as well as weekly demos

▪ Is a key role on Agile team(s) and works onsite with the team on a daily basis

▪ Integrates usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction and ensure customer driven design

▪ Align outward facing product requirements and stakeholder

AUTHORITY/ DECISION MAKING:

▪ Thinking within broadly defined policies, standards and objectives. The determination of “what needs to be done” in applying polices is largely left up to the incumbent who must establish the plan, determine the priorities and prescribe the processes needed to achieve the objectivesss

▪ Subject to general direction and broadly defined functional policy objectives. Actions which will impact other functional or operating areas usually require approval before they may be implemented