We are currently seeking a Product Owner to join the Life Product Implementation Team, and who can shape and drive the outcomes of the Agile Team they are working with. You will have decision making authority and accountability with the Agile Team with regard to the delivery of the product.
This is a 9 months contract role with a potential to extend based on individuals performance.
Salary Budget: SGD 5000-7000
Principal responsibilities
· Accountable for the delivery of the end-to-end project life cycle, ensuring proper control of governance, scope, resources, timeline, budget and risks.
· Break down complex features into user stories on an ordered team backlog, and prioritise what the build
· Own succinct and clearly written user stories and epics, ensuring the scope, acceptance criteria, definition of ‘ready’ is met & definition of ‘done’ is clearly articulated, aligned to achieving key OKRs and the size estimation
· Ensure the Team backlog is visible and understood by all stakeholders to the level needed
· Ensure each backlog item built meets compliance to relevant requirements
o Regulatory approvals
o Governance requirements
o Operational Risk requirements
o Non Functional Requirements
o Business requirements for implementation and adoption in markets
· Be accountable for the outcomes of the activity undertaken by the Agile Team including accepting work as complete and effective.
Accountabilities for Business, Customers and Stakeholders
· You will be accountable for the value that the team delivers to the business.
· You will be the accountable face-off to represent the team and their delivered outcomes, features and services
· You will be accountable for preparing and delivering updates and key messages for Platform and key stakeholders
· You will be accountable for engaging internal and external functions as required by specific delivery needs potentially including:
o Service Delivery Functions
o Service Providers
o Vendors
· You will be accountable for ensuring adherence to approved budgets.
All activities must be conducted in accordance with Group standards, policy and procedures.
Leadership & Teamwork
· Typically, you will work within a team consisting of delivery leads, Engineers, Analysts and other roles as required to deliver the backlog of the Team.
· You will act as an escalation point for delivery blockers, dependencies or other issues impacting the team or a particular story. You will be responsible for determining next steps and mitigating actions where required.
· You will need exceptional decision making, influencing, communication and collaboration skills in order to role model agile delivery practices.
Requirements
· At least 6 years of hands-on experience in managing all stages of the product life cycle
· Experience in life insurance industry is an added advantage
· Possess a combination of business and technical knowledge with the ability to drive complex projects successfully
· Proven ability to build strong relationship with key stakeholders and the “C” level (such as, CPO, CFO, COO, CDO) and having the right influencing and communication skills to drive for effective outcome to meet the challenging timeline.
· Ability to work under challenging environment
· Experience in Agile Methodology and Ways of Working to drive a culture of achievement
· Ability to use tools such as Confluence and Jira
Argyll Scott Consulting Pte Ltd
