Are you one of those people who can see solutions where other people see problems? Are you smart, creative and enjoy working with people to solve challenges? Are you passionate about delivering change and improving services, while acting as the bridge between business and technology teams?
If you answered yes to the above, then we’d love to talk to you about a career with us as a Product Owner!
What will you do?At BearingPoint, our Product Owners are involved in all aspects of the design of IT solutions. You will work closely with clients, delivery teams, and senior stakeholders to understand business needs, define solution requirements, and ensure delivery teams remain focused on the highest-value outcomes. As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for shaping and communicating the solution vision, ensuring that the client goals and priorities are understood and met, and acting as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams. Good communication skills, both written and verbal, are a must, as is a good level of technical understanding.
Key Responsibilities- Engage with stakeholders at all levels to understand business priorities and facilitate workshops.
- Support the development of business cases.
- Analyse and document business, functional, and user requirements.
- Conduct business process analysis and identify opportunities for improvement and optimisation.
- Perform data analysis to support decision-making, solution design, and benefits realisation.
- Develop and manage user stories, acceptance criteria, and product backlogs.
- Support project planning, progress reporting and risk identification,
- Prepare and maintain high-quality project documentation, facilitate knowledge transfer activities and change support.
- Deployment planning and coordination.
- Collaboration with technical teams to ensure successful solution delivery.
- Track and measure business benefits and realisation.
You will have:
- 7 to 15 years’ experience in a similar role as a product owner, systems analyst or business analyst on large systems integration projects.
- Third level qualification in Technology.
- Experience facilitating workshops with large groups of stakeholders.
- Experience specifying business requirements as user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Experience of working in an Agile delivery team using Agile tools, techniques and ceremonies including user stories, backlog grooming, estimation, prioritisation, sprints, retrospectives, stand-ups, Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Scrum/Kanban etc.
- Experience with Problem and Incident Management processes & procedures.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good collaboration and interpersonal skills, as well as good communication and language skills in the English language (presenting, documenting, workshopping).
- Good technical understanding, ensuring effective communication and collaboration with technical teams.
- SQL proficiency desirable.
- Experience of working with reporting tools such as Power BI is desirable.
- Proven ability to be flexible and work hard, both independently and in a team environment, with changing priorities.
- Ability to get up to speed quickly and work across industries.
We work in an open and collaborative way, where new ideas are always welcome. BearingPoint is an environment where potential and high performance is recognised and rewarded.
What we offer:
You will receive a competitive salary where you are rewarded for both your individual performance and company performance. You will also receive a best-in-class benefits package including holidays, private health insurance, pension contributions, gym/club subscription, wellness programmes, mobile phone and much more. In addition, we offer:
Hybrid working – where each team has autonomy to determine their in-person and remote working schedule.
Continuous learning – we understand that it is imperative to invest in our people’s development and we provide external training at prestigious universities such as Oxford and Yale
Social events – our people perform best when they have a good work life balance, monthly events for all to attend
Diversity – we are committed to having a diverse workforce where each individual feels they belong and can thrive in a work environment with a strong sense of community
Mentoring & coaching – every employee has a development manager to help them grow their career with feedback via continuous conversations
Giving Back – you will have an opportunity to join our many giving back initiatives including our commitment to sustainability. Our Emissions Calculator gathers accurate emissions data and enables our clients to understand their footprint and track progress on emission reduction and pave the way for a better future.
Together, we are more than business.To see more from our people with their experiences of BearingPoint please visit our careers website www.bearingpoint.com
About BearingPoint
BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy with European roots and a global reach. The company operates in four units: Consulting, Solutions, Business Services, and Ventures. Consulting covers the advisory business; Solutions provides the tools for successful digital transformation, advanced analytics and regulatory requirements; Business Services provides managed services beyond SaaS; Ventures drives the financing and development of start-ups. BearingPoint’s clients include many of the world’s leading companies and organizations. The firm has a global consulting network with more than 10,000 people and supports clients in over 75 countries, engaging with them to achieve measurable and sustainable success.
BearingPoint is an equal opportunities employer.
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BearingPoint does not accept unsolicited cvs from 3rd party recruitment agencies without a written agreement in place for placements. BearingPoint is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited cvs and no fee will be paid should the candidate be hired by BearingPoint.
Skills Required
- 7 to 15 years' experience as a product owner, systems analyst or business analyst on large systems integration projects
- Third level qualification in Technology
- Experience facilitating workshops with large groups of stakeholders
- Experience specifying business requirements as user stories and acceptance criteria
- Experience working in an Agile delivery team using Agile tools, techniques and ceremonies (user stories, backlog grooming, estimation, prioritisation, sprints, retrospectives, stand-ups, Definition of Done/Ready, Scrum/Kanban)
- Experience with Problem and Incident Management processes & procedures
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good collaboration and interpersonal skills and strong English communication (presenting, documenting, workshopping)
- Good technical understanding to ensure effective collaboration with technical teams
- SQL proficiency
- Experience of working with reporting tools such as Power BI
- Proven ability to be flexible and work independently and in a team with changing priorities
- Ability to get up to speed quickly and work across industries
What We Do
BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy. Our roots are European, but our footprint is truly global. Transformation is our core service. We deliver value to enterprises, government organizations and NGOs. In a rapidly changing world, BearingPoint provides solutions to tomorrow’s challenges as well as today’s. As for our scale? In 2023 we delivered 1,810 projects in 43 countries. We operate in three business units: Consulting, Products, and Capital. This gives us the holistic expertise our clients need to help them achieve greater success. Everything we deliver is measurable and sustainable. We accomplish this through our approach: • We are independent advisors • We listen, understand and adapt • We combine strategy with operational focus • We blend management and technology for maximum potential • We help our clients embrace change Our culture is defined by our purpose – ‘together, we are more than business’ – combined with three values that bring it to life: • We are easy to work with • We empower people to succeed • We create lasting outcomes Every day we’re working to deliver more for people, more innovation, and more for our planet. From AI to automation, strategy to sustainability, BearingPoint is helping our clients and their people to forge brighter futures.
