Product Owner (Control of Work)

Wolters Kluwer Enablon is the software leader in integrated risk management (IRM), operational risk management (ORM) and environmental, health, safety, sustainability, and quality (EHSSQ) with millions of users in 160 countries. Enablon and its more than 80 worldwide partners have driven innovation with its Fortune 100 customer base through industry events, executive engagement, customer innovation challenges, user groups, and customer workshops. Enablon’s mission is to help create a better world by making organizations responsible, productive, and safe through innovative technology.

We are a fast-growing international company operating in more than 130 countries with a large diverse partnership network. Our global headquarters and main R&D divisions are in Paris (Bois-Colombes) and The Hague with North American headquarters in Chicago and offices in Houston, London, Sydney, Melbourne, and Montreal.

Our solutions make a difference – and so do our people.

The Product Owner – Control of Work will be responsible for agile release planning, delivery and maintenance on the Enablon Control of Work. This is a key role to support the growth of Enablon as a 360-degree risk management platform and is a business-critical application for many of the world’s leading organization, enabling them to be safer, more responsible and efficient.

Responsibilities: 

• Product Discovery

• Conduct research and discovery, consolidate feedback, prioritize roadmap, conduct customer interviews, collaborate across functions

• Product Delivery

• Work in a squad and support development teams, ensure successful delivery and high quality, manage and prioritize the backlog, define user stories

• User Enablement

• Communicate and document about the product usage, conduct demos, support internal teams

Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities / Education

Skills/Competencies:

• A passion for customers’ needs, using technology and innovation to meet those needs and driving customer feedback into a product.

• Attention to detail and an eye for quality in process and outputs

• Strong ability to prioritize, organize and work in a fast-paced environment to deliver results on a timely basis

• Ability to proactively work in autonomy, with skills in collaboration and problem solving

• Ability to write user stories with natural language simply, clearly, and unambiguously.

• Ability to consistently innovate, challenging potential solutions to ensure they deliver the best result for all stakeholders.

• Strong written communication skills

• Strong oral communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication style to your audience, e.g., technical/non-technical

• Developer experience is not essential, but you should have an appetite for digging deep into technical details to understand complex platform requirements and be able to read, write and interpret technical documentation

• Software development processes (such as Kanban, Scrum, SAFe)

• Product delivery best practices to ensure that the development team works most efficiently to deliver product improvements.

Education/Experience

Education: Bachelor’s degree in IT/ software engineering / computer science

Work experience:

• 2-3 years’ experience in B2B enterprise product management either as a technical product owner or product manager

• Effective written and oral communication skills in English

• Experience of working on enterprise software delivery or change projects would be helpful

• Business analysis for software implementations, software development, or other technology environments.

Location: Alphen aan den Rijn, 2 days a week at the office

Travel requirements: Occasional travel to Customer on-site events, training and workshops and company conferences.