Required for a Well-Known bank in UK a Chain Product Owner.

saraaraby
Jul 16, 2021
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Making a difference

As a Chain Product owner you are responsible for:

• Manage and liaise with multiple business lines, 25+ countries and 14 E2E business processes. Globally approx. 100 IT systems (with their individual PO’s) involved to get the job done and realize business value;

• Being operational point of contact for Program Manager, functional reporting line;

• Ensuring the business angle in IT implementation: requirements are visible, transparent and ready for implementation (involvement Business Requirement Document and IT implementation plan);

• Supporting the delivery of the integrated plan;

• Ensuring that the goals are visible, transparent and clear for all delivery teams involved and coordinate priorities for the backlogs;

• Ensuring the individual system’s Product Owners understand the priorities for the implementation of the business requirements (Epics);

• Coordination of Epics and the resulting (time) dependencies for involved systems via regular PO-meetings;

• Reporting on progress to program board and timely signalling and (if necessary) escalation of conflicts with respect to priorities on backlogs and planning issues in cooperation with IT Delivery;

• Managing chain implementation risks via RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) Log.

With each other

Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. Our Risk team brings talented people together to deliver robust and understandable models and risk solutions and systems that create more insights in business drivers and risks. You will be working in a team of 22 diverse colleagues that contribute the various programs within the bank. Within your program, you will be able to meet and work on a daily basis with various stakeholders to successfully deliver the model (re)development.

Danny Egberts, Program Manager Corporate: “Since the Agile way of working is common practice, this new role emerged to guarantee priority setting and alignment over 30+ scrum teams and multiple business lines to achieve joint results at a specific moment in time. The Chain PO-role is instrumental to support the Program Manager and IT Delivery Manager in successful model implementation.“

With you

• Results driven and able to prioritize;

• Strong stakeholder management, proven track record of building strong internal connections;

• Able to manage critical path and identify key dependencies;

• In addition, it’s important that you recognize everything in the checklist below:

o You have a Masters degree;

o You have knowledge of and/or strong affinity with agile way of working;

o You have knowledge of and/or strong affinity with system landscapes and architecture;

o You have knowledge of and/or strong affinity with credit risk models;

o You have knowledge of and/or strong affinity with the bank IT landscape;

o Working proficiency of English is required.

Location: Utrecht