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Present in Romania for over 40 years, Thales is expanding its presence in the country by growing its Digital capabilities and by developing a Group Engineering Competence Centre (ECC). Operating from Bucharest, Thales delivers solutions in a number of core businesses, from ground transportation, space and defence, to security and aeronautics.
Several professional opportunities have arisen. If you are looking for the solidity of a Global Group that is at the forefront of innovation, but with the agility of a human structure that tailors to the personal development of its employees and allows opportunities for evolution in an international environment, then this is the place for you!
Job summary:
We are seeking a passionate and experienced Product Owner to join our STAFR team. STAFR is a Thales Corporate Engineering (TCE) project targeting to cover Workload and Workforce planning, a standard and key feature of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes which in this moment are defined and deployed across several Thales entities.
Main responsibilities:
- Identify and map stakeholders, understand their needs, and proactively manage their expectations, potential risks and issues, implementing appropriate and effective solutions
- Discuss new functionality and its (possible) business value with stakeholders
- Translate user needs into clear and actionable user stories for the development team.
- Prioritize the product backlog based on value, ensuring the delivery of essential features.
- Plan the Releases.
- Collaborate with all stakeholders to ensure engagement and satisfaction throughout the product lifecycle, to secure budget needed to meet both corporate needs and engineering needs and to ensure product vision always align with Thales Corporate Engineering strategy
- Develop a stakeholder expectation management and a user adoption strategy through effective communication, collaboration, and coordination.
- Facilitate scoping sessions and actively participate in scrum events (demos, retrospective, and backlog refinement sessions).
- Regularly communicate product status and release progress to stakeholders.
- Experience in developing complex features, charts, KPIs, indicators etc
- Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills at all levels, including executive management.
- Strategic thinking to identify trends, hidden needs, align product vision with company’s strategy and handle product development and deployment in a domain where change and transformation is needed: proof of concepts, pilots, MVP, adoption curve, etc.
- Facilitation skills to align and engage a stakeholder remotely (worldwide)
- Data-driven approach, utilizing metrics such as acquisition & activation metrics, Net Promoter Score, User Experience Questionnaire, burndown charts, etc.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Fluent in English, French recommended.
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans with employer contributions and matches, profit sharing, and share purchase opportunities are emphasized across multiple regions. These elements are positioned as competitive components of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO that increases with tenure, paid holidays, and paid military, maternity, and paternity leave are described. This breadth supports work–life balance across locations.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid work options, flexible schedules, and parental supports such as childcare benefits and leave for sick children are available in several markets. Flexibility is presented as a core part of the employee experience.
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Thales is a global high technology leader investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust, which is vital to the development of our societies. The company provides solutions, services and products that help its customers – businesses, organisations and states – in the defence, aeronautics, space, transportation and digital identity and security markets to fulfil their critical missions, by placing humans at the heart of the decision-making process.
