Product Owner - Convergence

Join us as a Product Owner

Are you ready to drive innovation in post-trade services across Europe?

Euronext is a pan-European capital markets group with regulated activities in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. Euronext also operates non-regulated activities in 17 countries across the world.

The Euronext Securities business consists of four Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) in Portugal, Denmark, Norway, and Italy, providing issuance, custody, and settlement services to the capital markets.

Your position will be based Porto, where you will play a key role in the harmonisation and optimisation of products and services across the CSDs. You will work closely with international teams and contribute directly to Euronext’s strategy of convergence, rolling out a common service and technology platform that enhances client experience, reduces fragmentation, and improves operational efficiency across Europe.

In this role, you will drive efforts to optimize a group of products to achieve business goals and maximize return on investment. You will work with product, sales, and IT teams to identify customer needs and improve existing products or develop new ones. For Euronext Securities, convergence consists of rolling out a common service supported by a common information technology system. Its purpose is to provide financial institutions with a single client experience, thus reducing the cost, risk, and complexity of post-trade fragmentation in Europe.

The programme covers the full project lifecycle including design, definition of requirements, build of the IT system, testing, migration of the 4 CSDs, and regulatory approvals when appropriate. The Harmonisation team plays a key role in ensuring a consistent approach on the business side.

Key accountabilities:

• Manage existing groups of products as well as the development of new ones in line with the roadmap to achieve business priorities.
• Oversee the development of a new product and/or service for a particular business area in close cooperation with internal project teams, finance, regulation, surveillance, and other key stakeholders.
• Lead P&L-driven business case development, seeking the most profitable balance between client needs and internal cost control.
• Develop business cases and go-to-market strategies for products, compile and evaluate research on market requirements, and identify enhancements to features and functionality.
• Interface with a broad range of stakeholders including engineers, designers, sales representatives, marketing teams, suppliers, and customers.
• Conduct competitor analysis for a particular product offering, functionality, pricing, and market penetration to recommend improvements to enhance Euronext’s market position and ensure accurate and up-to-date competitor intelligence to manage any competitive risks.
• Maintain and develop relationships with business development and client services teams to ensure an accurate and detailed understanding of client needs and identify opportunities to increase market share.
• Engage with internal IT and design working groups to develop in-depth technical design and application features.
• Assure the competitiveness of pricing structures, monitor the impact of pricing initiatives on clients, and ensure compliance with regulatory and legal requirements (Pricing team(s))

Your profile:

• Experience in product management, business development or sales support role.
• Expert knowledge of Euronext’s market model, rule book, service offer, the buy-side and sell-side landscape.
• Knowledge of the full product development lifecycle.
• Strong commercial acumen and strategic awareness.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills, an ability to combine attention to detail with the wider strategic view.
• Rigorous project management skills: ability to leverage internal and external relationships, autonomy and determination to drive forward projects, provide clear business input into functional requirements.
• Collaborative, open, pragmatic, customer oriented and numbers-driven approach to work.
• International business experience – developing products in multiple geographic locations

Working with us means:

• A vibrant international and diverse team where you'll collaborate with a network of 2,200+ talents across Europe, USA and Asia
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment that fosters professional growth with flexible career paths, learning and development opportunities
• An agile, innovative and dynamic company where you can make an impact
• Wellbeing programme, equal opportunities, work environment open to diversity in all its forms.

Apply by submitting a CV in English.

Join Euronext – Shape capital markets for future generations

Euronext is the leading pan-European market infrastructure, connecting European economies to global capital markets to drive innovation and sustainable growth.

• Operating in 18 countries across Europe, the US, and Asia, it has regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal.
• Euronext operates regulated equity and derivatives markets, a leading electronic fixed income trading market, and the largest centre for debt and funds listings globally.
• The Group offers a wide range of products including equities, FX, ETFs, bonds, derivatives, commodities, and advanced data services.
• It provides clearing through Euronext Clearing and custody and settlement services via Euronext Securities in Denmark, Italy, Norway, and Portugal.
• Euronext also offers technology, corporate, and data services to third parties.

Euronext Values

Unity

•        We respect and value the people we work with

•        We are unified through a common purpose

•        We embrace diversity and strive for inclusion

Integrity

•        We value transparency, communicate honestly and share information openly

•        We act with integrity in everything we do

•        We don’t hide our mistakes, and we learn from them

Agility

•        We act with a sense of urgency and decisiveness

•        We are adaptable, responsive and embrace change

•        We take smart risks

Energy

•        We are positively driven to make a difference and challenge the status quo

•        We focus on and encourage personal leadership

•        We motivate each other with our ambition

Accountability

•           We deliver maximum value to our customers and stakeholders

•           We take ownership and are accountable for the outcome

•           We reward and celebrate performance

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor. We value the unique talents of all our people, who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.

This job description is only describing the main activities within a certain role and is not exhaustive. It does not prevent to add more tasks, projects.