Expert Product Owner

А global digital transformation company with a team of more than 4,900 global players in 26 countries – in Europe, America and Asia, working together to put organizations at the forefront of innovation by bringing together talent, knowledge and technology.

Our approach is based on conscious technology, through which we create positive environments and meaningful opportunities, always in our own way, making the complex simple.

VASS BeNeLux is currently seeking an Expert Expert Product Owner to work for a project within the European Commission.

The role:

• Works within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team.
• Typically supervises several business analysts.
• Possesses an in-depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project.
• Interacts and validates requirements with the business
• Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an in depth understanding of a specific business domain (see skills).
• Creates, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or return of investment.
• Creates user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for a single sprint.
• Is involved in the decision-making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints.
• Participates in project planning, daily stand-up meetings (SCRUM).
• Participates to retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Reviews deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint.
• Organizes live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint.
• Facilitates the acceptance of the product by the business.
• Develops and maintains standards for testing.
• Provides progress reporting.
• Assists with internal and external communication by improving of transparency and dissemination of information.
• Assists with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.
• May perform the role of Scrum master.

You have:

• Highly experienced with procurement and contract management business processes.
• Experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user and technologies Information Systems.
• Experience in Agile environments and good knowledge of agile toolbox (i.e. JIRA, Confluence, BigPicture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.).
• Ability to give business and technical presentations.
• Ability to apply high quality standards.
• Very good communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Capability to write clear and structured technical documents.
• Ability to participate in technical meetings and good communication skills
• Master's degree in a relevant field
• Contract financial and operational preparation, signature, amendment and execution
• Knowledge of Request for quotation, Submission and Evaluation, Awarding business processes for Procurement
• Certified SAFe 6 Agilist
• Professional Scrum Product Owner I
• Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
• Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC)

If you want to join a dynamic company where technological challenges will be found in your day to day we are waiting for you in the great VASS team.

And we encourage you to be the best version of yourself: Transformative, Creative, Honest, Vibrant!

At VASS we take action every day to achieve a favourable environment that facilitates and promotes equal opportunities, non-discrimination, diversity and inclusion of all people. We select our talent based on business needs, skills and merits. 🌟