Old Mutual
Senior Product Owner: NBA
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Job Description
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Job Description
We’re creating personalised digital experiences aimed at empowering thousands of Old Mutual customers with personalised advice that allows them to manage both their present and future needs in a way that gives them a sense of security and freedom of choice. Our vision is to be our customer’s first choice to sustain, grow and protect their prosperity.
As Product Owner, you’re expected to set long-term plans, work cross-functionally with teams to set goals and ensure these goals reach the finish line by keeping everyone focused. You will be key to defining the vision for the team's product - a hyper-personalised recommendation engine that identifies the customers’ Next Best Action in their journey toward financial wellness. To build this, you need to understand the strategies involved in driving behaviour change and be able to invoke this through product design and development.
You will create the product road map and manage the product backlog and prioritise actions based on changing requirements. Your role will oversee all stages of product creation including design and development.
The MyGoals team is a dynamic unit within the newly formed OMiX business, within Old Mutual Limited. The team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.
Key Results Areas:
Works with the teams to break Features into stories, including agreeing acceptance criteria.
Active involvement in certain team and program meetings: Feature writing (if required), PI planning, all team meetings such as Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Planning and Backlog Refinement.
Product Owner syncs and Program syncs on the program level (if required).
Ensure alignment between work delivered and ultimate expectations as defined in the feature statements.
Inputting into the vision and strategy.
Write and prioritise features with acceptance criteria to help guide the team and align stakeholders. Long term as well as short term product roadmap.
Understand and be actively involved in removing impediments to team performance that are raised by either the Scrum Master or team.
Communicating risks effectively to stakeholders.
Communicate and align with other Product Owners when inter-team dependencies and trade-offs are required to be solved.
Make day to day decisions that will guide the team’s delivery.
Maintaining and Prioritize team Product Backlog.
Understand and use gamification to reward and promote interaction aimed at driving positive behaviours.
Continuously evaluate the product based on user and stakeholder engagement, interaction and feedback.
Role and Experience Qualifications:
At least five years as a Senior Product Owner in an agile environment.
Matriculation and relevant IT or Business degree.
Qualified or nearly qualified Actuary or Data Science Business Degree is preferred
Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc.
Product Owner and Leading SAFe certification.
Knowledge and experience in using GenAI to develop NBA Models whilst considering digital design and user experience.
Knowledge and experience in using tracking and collaboration tools such as Jira, Miro and TFS
Knowledge and experience with typically used Agile techniques such as User Story mapping, ATDD, TDD, etc.
Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
Clarity on delivering clear, prioritised stories with acceptance criteria.
Skills
Education
Closing Date
15 January 2024The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.
Please refer to the Old Mutual’s Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.
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About the company
Old Mutual Limited is a pan-African investment, savings, insurance, and banking group.
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