Software Product Owner

POSITION INFO:

We are seeking a results-driven and experienced Software Product Owner to join our innovative team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in defining and prioritizing features for our software products and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery.

What you’ll do:

• The Product Owner will elicit, facilitate, synthesize, and present technical solutions.
• The candidate will use business requirements to drive the design or review of products, test cases, and business process design and define a project’s vision, scope, acceptance, and implementation.
• The successful candidate will form part of the IT team and report to the Software Product Manager.
• Our ideal candidate can work on multiple projects simultaneously and translate business data into usable information, which will help to improve systems and processes.
• Consult various customers (internal and external) to understand their value chain, structure, functions, and products and/or services.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external customers.
• Challenge the business in their thinking, especially to understand the intent of the business requirement.
• With little supervision, elicit, gather, analyze, document, validate, and communicate business requirements (Agile and Waterfall Formats)
• Determine the feasibility of a proposed project.
• Understand the commercial importance of changes or new features.
• Estimate total project duration based on experience.
• Working closely with Business Owners, workstream Managers, and stakeholders in identifying and managing dependencies.
• Perform Process Re-engineering of customer processes.
• Facilitate JAD Sessions.
• Manage User Acceptance Testing.
• Perform Scrum Master Tasks for internal development team and coorientate with external supplier development teams.

Your Expertise:

• 5 years’ previous experience as a Senior Business Analyst/ Product Owner in Software Development projects.
• Minimum of 2 years experience in Agile Software development Projects.
  
• Business Analyst/ Product Owner experience in the Retail Industry (Advantageous).

Qualifications Required:

• Matric/ Grade 12 or A-Levels.
• Relevant tertiary qualification/ Informatics degree.
• Post Graduate degree/ Honours degree / Business Analyst diploma, BABOK Certification, Agile Certification.

Personal Attributes:

• Demonstrated ability to communicate in both verbal and written communication.
• Logical reasoning.
• Customer focused approach to work.
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills / Power Point presentations.
• Project Management skills.
• Analytical and methodical - logical thinker.
• Able to work with high attention to detail.
• Delivery-oriented self-starter.
• Problem-solver and innovative in a structured manner.
• Structured worker and effective administrator.
• Strong organizational and general management abilities.

Behavioral:

• Results driven - to ensure that activities fulfill strategic goals and drive the required business results.
• Well-developed time management, planning, and coordinating skills.
• Able to work independently with limited instruction and supervision.
• Good interpersonal skills and a customer-oriented approach.
• Effective communication skills.
• Able to self-correct and be flexible/ adapt to change.
• Ethical and honest.
• Ability to cope with and handle variable workload which can be heavy at times.
• Able to work independently with limited instruction and supervision.
• Hardworking, tenacious, and committed to delivery.
• Emotionally mature.
• Able to work effectively in a team.
• Exercise self-reflection, be able to self-correct, and be flexible/ adapt to change
• Calm, yet able to respond quickly and rationally to unexpected events (not impulsive).

Other information applicable to the opportunity:

• Location: You will be required to go to the Office or Warehouse in Johannesburg as and when required.
• Permanent position.