009HX7-Product Owner

1. 01

   Define value proposition & set product strategy, in alignment with League vision & to ensure team achieves strategic goals - Spend time with customers & stakeholders to identify value drivers - Understand customer values, application, competitive environment, market trends, go to market and anticipate evolutions - Gather and analyze customer’s needs by meeting customers and collaborating regularly with business stakeholders - Evaluate the strategic value of the offer - Define and validate the offer value propositions (UVP, business models, go to market) - Understand technical trends to identify valuable innovations in the product environment - Lead and contribute to the customer interaction strategy

2. 02

   Build, follow-up and support business in collaboration with zones - Co-build or analyze business cases with zones - Propose value base pricing recommendations (e.g.: GRT, AMSP, GM(%)) - Periodic analysis of business performances (volumes, sales, profitability, evolutions) - Support business (reviews with zones, trainings, meetings with customers, technical prescription, animate supply chain rebalancing,..) - Prepare the launch activities of the offer and coordinate with the geographies

3. 03

   Create, prioritize & communicate with Squad members the Squad backlog, release map & roadmap. - Challenge and evaluate requests (from business, quality,...) - Periodically review critical quality issues and associated mitigation plans - Build and prioritize the product backlog - Communicate backlog refinement - Define, update and validate the offer/marketing

(in sync with companion Squads and Leagues guidelines / strategy) within backlog product prioritization - Build the releases plan and global roadmap according to technology, feasibility, budget, resources, TTM - Communicate the product roadmap to all stakeholders - Periodically review customers demo feedback to assess new needs - Periodically review with internal stakeholders (including management agreement) - Lead the offer requirement trade-offs

4. 04

   Define with Squad members the sprint strategy and achievement criteria. Take accountability in sharing outcomes with stakeholders: - Organize iterative deliverables for each sprint based on release objectives - Ensure team understands and refines backlog items before committing to them - Ensure sprint objectives contribute to value for customer (backlog) and product/process robustness - Define and update achievement criteria - Consider retro session outcomes in the iterative sprint definition - Guide the Squad to set-up and re-prioritize realistic but ambitious enough sprint objectives : squad velocity

5. 05

   Support the Squad to deliver on sprints & “rendezvous”, acting as obstacle troubleshooter :- Be the voice of the customer for the squad questions - Support the squad on all obstacles (including capacity issues) - Periodic analysis of the product cost to deliver the right level of product cost - Define the best trade-offs between all parameters (e.g. : Squad budget, schedule, product cost and business stake, quality, time to market, innovation) - Ensure product/process robustness (according to « major rendezvous ») - Review periodically main acceptance criteria with the Squad. - Synchronize with companion Squads

6. 06

   Create a conducive and collaborative environment through effective leadership : - Organize, lead, challenge and motivate the Squad - Be the voice of the Squad in case of trade offs and success needs with stakeholders outside of the Squad - Provide transparency to key stakeholders - Be part of the Agile rendezvous - Celebrate team's success Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience Experience presenting to Customers & Leaders, and experience in saying 'No' when required Experience in successfully building and leading teams in a matrix environment. Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), an in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles would be an advantage Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams