Grade GResponsible for delivering business analysis and consulting activities for the defined specialism using advanced technical capabilities, building and maintaining effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders, ensuring relevant standards are defined and maintained, and managing process and system improvements to deliver business value. Specialisms: Business Analysis; Data Management and Data Science; Digital Innovation.Entity:
Innovation & Engineering

Job Family Group:
IT&S Group

Job Description:

Key accountabilities and experience by skill categories

Human centered:

Research key customer trends and competitor activity in relation to the relevant business area to build a knowledge hub to continually improve product performance!

Ability to immerse yourself in knowing your internal and/or external customer(s) needs to reinvent and innovate product solutions

Knows how to bring customer problem discovery and user experience into the behaviors of the team and apply them efficiently

Strong customer-centric approach and can demonstrate how they have previously built customer need and value into their products!

Facilitate communication to the team, ensuring everyone is completely clear with respect to their accountabilities and the goals we are trying to achieve

Demonstrable track record of discovering customer needs and translating them into inspirational, innovative solutions and detailed product requirements

Work closely with business teams, leaders, science, and engineering teams in an agile development environment to launch new products, platforms, features and experiences which delight our customers

Business focused:

• Collaborate with other product managers and business stakeholders to create a compelling portfolio or product vision based on customer compassion, market research, regulatory guardrails, goals of the business to create value
• Partner daily with DevOps squads to develop and run digital applications, ensuring the voice of the customer is incorporated into the product team activity, maintaining an up-to-date delivery roadmap with a clear focus on business value
• Familiarity with, at least 2 business cycles of experience with modeling product economics such as: CAC, NPV, ROIC, or other commercial measures
• Shows ability in being able to decipher between functional impact, business impact, and good user experience. Picking the best balance between the 3
• Continually seeks to accelerate development strategically through external partnership or re-use of internal capabilities, including our venture portfolio, identifying 'best of breed' features and crafting a robust buy / build / partner strategy against the product roadmap
• Provide visibility of delivery to internal and external partners, raising issues as required to drive product launches
• As needed, supports the management of service outcomes with suppliers and partners who provide developers to augment your team
• Experience in getting the best from existing partners and understand when and how to partner to build advantage in the market
• You'll give in crafting product vision and product roadmaps with an agile delivery approach in partnership with Tech while handling cyber, operational and/or regulatory risks
• Strong experience in data modeling and data analytics. Able to extract and analyze data using SQL and spreadsheets
• Ability to represent business goals and set strategic direction
• Strong business-focused problem-solving skills.
• Be an owner a subset of product of features; making strategic product recommendations which are grounded in data and insights
• You will assist in shaping to bring the broader team's vision to life by collaborating with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, business partners, data professionals and other team members
• You will drive the day-to-day product development schedule from design through to release for your specific portfolio of features, own the product life cycle, and define and monitor metrics that measure the success of the product

Technology driven:

You'll partner with your technology peers and to influence end-state architecture and drive secure, resilient, performant, and scalable technology solutions that solve material customer and business problems

You'll be responsible to recommend technology investments decision by assessing opportunities for reusing enterprise solutions and building new ones with extensibility & enterprise scalability in mind

Solid understanding and experience of Service Design including commercial and business development considerations

Experience in collaborating with teams in using relevant agile frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban, ensuring quality and software operability are included into all aspects of the delivery lifecycle from the very beginning

Demonstrable ability to manage security incidents and prioritize backlogs, providing guidance and empowering the team to perform most optimally

Must have a solid grasp of software-as-a-service, web services and application design

Solid understanding and/or keen interest in emerging tools and technologies

Excellent fundamentals in business analytics and data platform design:

Coordinate across collaborating software development teams to drive technology integration requirements and processes

You will be responsible for defining projects, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional specifications, including user experiences in collaboration with design colleagues, and executing data driven cost/benefit analysis

Transformational Leadership:

Effectively lead the planning, execution, delivery, and release of sophisticated cross-team engineering initiatives, establishing teams that continually perform at a high level

Guides's teams to reflect and identify improvements and move them towards dedication, working with teams remove obstacles and resolve issues

Acts as coach or mentor to guide teams and individuals to adopting an agile mentality and is seen as a leader in agile behaviors and practices

Deep ability to communicate, collaborate and influence cross-discipline problem solving effectively to facilitate discussion and the development of alternatives or different approaches and to achieve business outcomes.

Able to demonstrate ability to be relatable to tech and non-tech partners

You'll influence a broad set of partners across the enterprise to successfully deliver on your portfolio/product vision

You'll establish a long-term product portfolio strategy, advised by customer needs, to gain alignment, secure resources and overcome impediments to bring products to market

You will influence and create culture with Engineers and UX designers to solve core customer needs. You'll therefore need to demonstrate the ability to successfully influence partners without formal authority, leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units

Be technical fluent, comfort understanding and discussing technology concepts, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members

Key characteristics of senior product leaders

Intellectually curious: comfortable navigating between the big ideas and executional realities to create an achievable strategic product vision. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges.

Communicator & Influencer: comfortable influencing a group of executives as well as communicating your product vision clearly to your associates and partners. You can be open to different communication styles and listen carefully to diverse sets of ideas.

Do-er: you're biased toward action and are willing to make commitments and trade-offs with other leaders to remove impediments for your team; you are a leader obsessed with delivering valuable in an iterative way focusing on minimum viable products that, ultimately, lead to minimum lovable experiences.

Passionate & customer focus: you care about growing others and bringing them together around what's possible. You have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs and build long lasting relationships.

Learner: you have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when exploring unknown technologies; you will seek for internal solutions

Phenomenal teammate: you enjoy working with a diverse group of people and driving the team toward a common goal. You are also able to coach others and be a mentor in product development. You are an authority in guiding pods/ sprint team towards outcomes for customers and the business. Uses human-centered design, analytics, business modeling and iterative MVPs. Provides people leadership, team leadership, and models cross-discipline/org influence.

Education:

Business, Economics, STEM degree, MBA or equivalent experience

Travel Requirement
Some travel may be required with this role, this is negotiable

Relocation Assistance:
This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:
Commercial Acumen, Commercial acumen (Inactive), Communication, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Data domain knowledge, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Manipulation, Data Sourcing, Data strategy and governance, Data Structures and Algorithms, Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving

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