Global Product Owner Talent

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Sasol Full time

Recruitment Description

/ Key Accountabilities Co-define (with the Portfolio Lead) and, thereafter, manage Product vision and roadmap Communicate with product stakeholders to understand business objectives. Maintain Product alignment with business goals, polices and addendums, portfolio strategy and the overall Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) programme. Create and maintain a Product Roadmap. AMS Deliver clear instructions to the Product Team. Obtain buy-in for the direction and priorities from the stakeholders. Manage Product stakeholders through negotiating over dependencies with other Product Owners and business counterparts (e.g. if we need to change a platform that multiple teams rely on). Anticipate and prioritise stakeholders needs Work with product stakeholders, Information Management (IM) product delivery team, and Product Owner team(s) to adjust priorities and expectations in order to maximise economies of scale and business value delivered. Ensure decisions and designs are made with customer, end user and business needs at the centre (e.g. understanding and translating business needs through leveraging customer journey maps, writing and prioritising epic and user stories, etc). Understand and translate business needs through customer journey maps, writing and prioritising epic and user stories, identifying key user experience drivers and touch points. Maintain deep knowledge of the market and the business and/or function. Manage the development process. Drive and benchmark best practices with global partners, and leverage data and analytics to optimise end-user experience and reduce costs. Prioritise the backlog for each Product Increment. Participate in forums and governance bodies that aim to align on cross-Product dependencies, representing the needs and priorities (such as deadlines) of their product stakeholders. Oversee the implementation of changes to Digital HR products Define, set up, and manage projects needed to execute changes. Consults HR Process Leads & Functional roles, and other business Functions regarding requirements. Ensure major change decisions (governance) is considered from a holistic perspective, maximising economies of scale and ensuring any benefits or negative impacts are considered. Manage up-to-date release pipeline, time and costs. Execute projects within the scope, budget, and time constraints and prioritise capabilities and projects, in balance with transactional support / service delivery. Plan release updates (patches, refreshes, releases) from the SaaS providers, and work with leadership to determine enablement plan. Review and assess release summary and detail and decide on feature set for preview / testing activities. Control the timing and communications of system enhancement release, including testing and deploying the enhancements. Assess, plan, schedule SaaS vendor's monthly updates (patches, refreshes, releases) - Mandatory ones (assess impacts, plan mitigation and communications) and opt-in (assess need and impacts, decide on opt-in, plan communications) Contribute to and sign off release management plan. Change Management and Communications Ensure system readiness for business events / mass uploads (e.g. performance cycle, big data loads, high utilisation/peak periods) Define and execute the change management plan (based on impact assessment) across the organization (communications, training) to gain the desired level of adoption Communicate updates (e.g. patches, refreshes, releases) to the end user community.

Accountabilities following the cadence of the agile sprints:

Manage Product Backlog Create a list of backlog items. Prioritise items based on overall strategy and stakeholder input. Ahead of every Sprint, prepare the work of your team in the form of Product Features with clearly articulated Benefit Hypotheses and Acceptance Criteria. Map out key dependencies between features. Overseeing development stages: Decide on the appropriate meeting cadence (e.g. 2 weeks) and ensure you and your delivery team follows it strictly. Contribute to the planning, execution, and review of each sprint. Prioritise the work of your Delivery Team based on business value, balancing between Project type of work like new features (e.g. 60%) and Transactions (40%) – daily if needed. Remove blockers preventing the Delivery Team from implementing their User Stories. Work with team to refine and improve the development process. Escalate and collaborate with the IM Product Portfolio Lead regarding any issues with the delivery of Transactional work items or Projects. Evaluating Product Progress: Accountable for the delivery team completing each stage of the development process and final process according to Sasol standards. Setting the short-term delivery target based on priorities, inspecting/evaluating product progress, updating the Product Roadmap, and reaching target. Determine when a product increment is acceptable to release.

Formal Education

University Bachelor's Degree

Minimum Experience

9 years relevant experience

Certification & Professional Membership

Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager

Competencies

FC1680: Stakeholder Relationship Management LC1632: Customer focus FC1107: Reduce and Manage Conflict FC2716: Social Intelligence and networking FC1079: Encourage Innovation FC2458: Critical thinking and problem solving Enterprise and Business Architecture FC2712: Business acumen - contextual FC2718: Digital Leadership FC1808: Strategy Planning IT Product Management IT Product Planning

Sasol is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Inspired by our Purpose of "Innovating for a better world", Sasol acknowledges that diversity is intrinsic to the fabric of our organisation and is the key to our growth and success. Sasol is committed to the full inclusion of all suitably qualified individuals. Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups and people with disabilities according to Sasol's Employment Equity Plan. This includes reasonable accommodation to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

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