Digital Product Owner

l Hubs worldwide which are strategically located to ensure a 24/7 support across the company (France, China, India, USA, Mexico and Spain). Our Digital Hub in Barcelona is formed by +450 employees working in strategic projects and different roles such as Data, Cybersecurity, ERP, Cloud, Infrastructures, IT Project Management or Digital Marketing.

We are seeking a Principal, Digital Product Owner to join our team. As part of the digital capability team, your mission is to ensure that the global pricing solutions match the necessities of the customers, markets, and business. Collaborate among them and with different departments to maximize the value of our global solutions, support the discussion to understand the business requirements and provide design engineering services to project teams.

You also master the portfolio of local applications covering the process for which you are responsible. You are thus able to identify areas for optimizing the portfolio that could reduce the group's technical debt and to explain the differences in functional coverage of the various tools.

Main responsibilities

For global applications under our management scope:

You are accountable for the execution of the vision of the capability owner by the engineering development team (DevOps team), being the interface between them:

• Owns feature roadmaps and follow up the delivery with the platform owner and the engineering development team.

• Documents story details (functional documentation) based on the epics after reviewing with Domain Capability Owner, Engineers, and Architects

• Collaborates with Domain Capability Owner and Platform Owner to address customer needs and enable use cases

  • Identify and analyse business needs, conduct requirements gathering, and define objectives
  • Leads backlog grooming to decompose and estimate stories, clarifies requirements for engineers and designers
  • Perform Demo of solution enhancements, accountable and ownership of Solution Process and training new team members on E2E Solution Business Process
  • Accountable for updating business requirements into existing documentation
  • Responsible for performing impact analysis of new requirements on existing solution and run countries
  • Support champions during UAT execution and participate into the testing, update test cases.

• Support the Domain Capability Owner and Digital Change Manager to prepare release notes & communication

• Act as solution ambassador

As part of the digitalization of new processes in global solutions under our management scope:

• Participate in the grooming sessions (technical and with business) and earlier calls to understand the process flows and their translation in user stories
• Enhance user stories considering E2E flow and tools (consider the full picture)
• Consider user experience journey in the design and validation of the user stories to support users' adoption
• Build functional design document where all functionalities and requirements are explained at least at functional level
• Test user stories during the sprint testing and participate in the UAT, E2E and integration tests. Be Accountable for Unit Testing and Communication to stake holders
• Be able to challenge the domain product owner / requestor
• Understand and master the data needed for the process and being part of the tool (Company parameters tables used, transactional data and master data used)
• Understand the integration with other tools (interfaces with SAP, CPQ, MySE,...)
• Be the Guardian of the compliance to the guidelines in what is digitized
• Lead and coordinate the definition of the deployment methodology
• Perform Knowledge transfer sessions to the deployment team
• Stay strongly involved in the first deployments after pilot

  • Identify and anticipate issues across projects

  • Leverage lessons learned and share experience from previous project to support continuous improvements and spread good practices

  • Be the first point of contact in case of issue or additional check that may be required. If necessary, contact the solution team

For improvement of existing solutions under our management scope

• Groom the Ideas and/or user stories together with the product owner, ensuring that it is well understood and providing all the necessary information so that Solution team can take over it

• Participate in the UAT release: test together with the product owner all user stories delivered and understand what has been changed and that acceptance criteria are fulfilled

• Explain to different stakeholders the changes that have been delivered in the release and how it is going to work (high level).

• Provide visibility to the deployment team on the coming release backlog

• Keep functional and deployment documentation up to date

For local applications in the pricing applications' portfolio

• You are in regular contact with application owners to understand their functional coverage. You are responsible for identifying possible synergies with global tools and proposing replacement strategies to reduce technical debt. For new entries into the portfolio, you ensure that no other option is already available in the existing portfolio.

• You participate to RFP/RFI to identify new applications/vendors to answer local needs.

What qualifications will make you successful for this role?

• 8+ years of relevant experience acting as a liaison between the business / end users and digital solution teams (technical)

• Strong Experience and knowledge of SAP SD, Groovy (nice to have)

• Strong business understanding

• Consulting knowledge and experience in evaluating customer requirements.

• Good knowledge of Agile principles and process

• Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict

• Knowledgeable in techniques to fill in gaps in the scrum

• Transversal (Cross BU, Cross Functions) or mutli-country (Cluster, Zone or Global) work experience is an advantage

• Nice to have: Prior experience in Schneider network

• Excellent communication and influencing skills

• Change management orientation

• Strong English (Written and Spoken) (mandatory)

• Ability to cooperate and work in multicultural environment

• Listening, negotiation, leadership, decision making

• Communication and teaching oriented, knowledge transfer ability.

• Support new content creation for training and employee development

• Multi-tasking ability - handling multiple topics in parallel

• Organized and structured

• Proactive, flexible, result-driven, with a "can do" attitude, attention to detail, problem-solving

• Flexibility to work with teams in different time zones in a "virtual" mode

What will you get?

We adapt to you:

With our flexible schedule, you'll have the freedom to adjust your work hours to accommodate your personal needs and responsibilities.

We know how great it is to work from home. With our hybrid work plan, you can enjoy working from the comfort of your home.

Need more time to relax and disconnect? With our Holy Pack, you can purchase additional vacation days to recharge when you need it most.

Celebrate holidays your way! With Floating Holidays, you can exchange holidays for other days that better suit your plans and personal preferences.

Need additional time to explore new experiences or focus on personal projects? With the Sabbatical Pack, you can request up to 2 months of extra leave (unpaid).

We value the importance of family and want to support you in all aspects of your life. Our Global Family Leave Policy provides flexible paid conditions for when you need it most, whether you're about to be a parent, need time to overcome a loss, or to care for a loved one.

We take care of you:

With access to the health and wellness platform Wellwo, you and up to 5 people of your choice can enjoy virtual medical care and 24/7 psychological support, as well as access to nutrition counseling, fitness classes, and more!

From dance classes to booking a hotel spa, we offer an agreement with Wellhub so you can access a network of thousands of gyms and sports centers to keep your body active in the way you like best.

Your well-being is our priority. You will have medical service at your workplace for close attention to any medical needs.

We empower you:

With Open Talent Market, our AI-driven professional development platform, you can connect with job opportunities, projects, and mentors at Schneider Electric globally.

We offer you the opportunity to be a shareholder of Schneider Electric and share in our achievements with our stock ownership program.

We celebrate everyone's talent and success with our recognition program, through which you can give and receive points for your achievements and redeem them for gift cards at your favorite stores.

You will have life insurance for your protection.

We offer you a Flexible Remuneration Plan in which you can choose from a variety of options, such as health insurance, meal vouchers, childcare vouchers, transportation vouchers, training, and more.

With Club Schneider, you will enjoy special discounts at your favorite stores, restaurants, travel agencies, and other external services.

Participate in company-subsidized volunteer programs to contribute to our community and have a positive impact on your environment.

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