Product Owner Ii

2 days ago

Brackenfell, South Africa ShopriteX Full time

**Role Purpose**

The **Product Owner** **II** is a member of the agile team, responsible for defining user stories and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team. The role **owns products of varying complexities**, engaging and collaborating with product management to execute the product vision, strategy and roadmap.

**Role Description**
- Provide input into the refinement of the program backlog, ensuring the team is familiar with the features being brought into PI planning and keeping program management informed of progress in achieving team PI objectives.
- Continuously refine and sequence the product backlog:

- Gather the requirements for the product and capture them in the form of a product backlog, consisting of user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Ensure all user stories are written and that each user story has acceptance criteria.
- Provide visible, transparent and clear direction, ensuring the development team is clear on priorities:

- Provide clear solution direction to the agile team.
- Sequence user stories based on team PI objectives.
- Balance PI objectives with local team requirements.
- Ensure team backlog readiness for next iteration.
- Include the team in backlog refinement.
- Participate in ART level events: ART sync, Product Owner Scrum of Scrums, Inspect and Adapt, PI Planning, daily stand-ups and system demos.
- **Track progress towards the release of a product**:

- **Drive mobile digital omnichannel customer engagement based on customer preference and omnichannel strategies.**
- Ensure a consistent and delightful customer experience across all digital touchpoints of the Shoprite customer journey.
- **Provide input** and support into the strategic customer experience improvements that help drive customer acquisition, customer retention and conversion.
- **Actively promote and advocate product features and customer-first product design.**
- Adhere to and improve customer service levels across businesses and service.
- Provide integrated reporting and feedback.

**Qualifications and experience**
- Degree in Business, IT, Engineering, Marketing or a related field - (essential).
- Certified Product Owner / certified SAFe Product Owner - (essential).
- ** +4 years' experience in a Product Owner role**, working in an agile team with proven success launching **new** product features and translating business strategy and analysis into successful consumer products - (essential).
- Experience collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects - (essential).
- Strong understanding and experience with analytics and big data - (essential).
- Commercial experience in digital led business development environment - (essential).
- Customer user and loyalty experience - (essential).
- Knowledge of legal compliance (POPIA, Electronic Information Act, etc.) - (essential).
- General marketing or retail experience - (desired).
- Exposure to the African digital market and customers - (desired).
- **Independent**, **motivated self-starter** with a **focus and determination to persevere** in a challenging, fast paced environment to achieve high-quality results.

**Key competencies and work ethic**
- **Excellent problem-solver** and **analytical thinker** with the ability to focus on what's most important, balance technical constraints, maximise product value and deliver a differentiated product.
- **Strong product focus **with **end-to-end product optimisation** - Ability to translate market and customer feedback into product requirements, driving product delivery through an agile release process while collaborating across development and product management. Brings expertise to manage product requirements and deliver product optimisation.
- ** Customer focused** - Passionate about creating value for customers. Translates customer needs into meaningful experiences, taking a proactive approach to anticipating future customer needs.
- ** Business acumen **- Good understanding of company business models, goals and strategies and how they impact on commercial viability and profitability.
- **Collaborative partner** - Lives the company values and contributes positively to team dynamics; builds strong relationships and partnerships while managing stakeholder expectations; knows when / how to include different parties.
- ** Stakeholder engagement skills** - Works collaboratively with stakeholders to resolve roadblocks to ensure results are delivered. Aligns and motivates teams and stakeholders behind the product vision and strategy. Strong understanding of the modern product management mindset.
- ** Influencing skills** **- **Challenges when required and ensures the team has full clarity on objectives, priorities and the reasons why; deals with conflicts or roadblocks independently while contributing to mentoring junior product owners as required.
- ** Communic

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