Product owner

The Product Owner Role is a pivotal position in the business and the respective Industry verticals. The role is found in all 4 verticals: Aviation Ports & Borders Urban Security & Defence. The role reports into the Portfolio Director Circular Economy and Industrial Innovation and is responsible for one or more of the companys product offerings starting with the companys Battery Sorting product. The Product Owner will serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and the technology team ensuring that requirements are clearly defined prioritized and translated into actionable deliverables (from MRD to SRD). The role ensures that each product evolves in alignment with business objectives continuously ensuring the development team keeps building the right things in the right way.

Duties Activities & Responsibilities

• Own and manage the product backlog ensuring clarity prioritization and alignment with business goals.
• Define and refine user stories and acceptance criteria to guide the development team.
• Validate deliverables against acceptance criteria and ensure they meet quality standards.
• Provide expert support in tender and proposal responses by articulating product capabilities and technical specifications.
• Continuously monitor progress resolve blockers and adjust priorities to maximize value delivery.
• Ensure product initiatives are prioritized based on business value feasibility and strategic impact.
• Act as a liaison between Technology Sales Programs Marketing and Service to assist in the creation of product technical specifications. Provide input from all departments to the R&D design team/s coordinate design review meetings such that New Product Introductions (NPI) meet sales and business objectives.
• Through periodic review maintain relevant technical content of sales support and sales/distributor training materials.

Backlog Management

• Own and manage the product backlog ensuring clarity prioritization and alignment with business goals.
• Write and refine user stories acceptance criteria and epics to guide the development team.
• Continuously groom the backlog to reflect evolving priorities and stakeholder feedback.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders customers and the development team.
• Facilitate communication to ensure expectations are managed and outcomes are aligned.
• Present product updates progress and outcomes to leadership and stakeholders.

Development Collaboration

• Partner closely with the development team to ensure smooth planning and execution.
• Provide timely clarification and decision-making support during development cycles.
• Validate deliverables against acceptance criteria and ensure they meet quality standards.

Value Delivery & Continuous Improvement

• Measure and track product performance against defined KPIs and success metrics.
• Gather and analyse feedback from users and stakeholders to inform future iterations.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement innovation and customer-centricity.

Tender Response Support

• Provide expert input into tender and proposal processes ensuring that product capabilities technical specifications and value propositions are articulated with clarity and precision.
• Collaborate with business development sales and technical teams to craft compelling responses that align with client requirements and organizational strategy.
• Translate complex technical concepts into businessfocused language that highlights competitive advantage and differentiators.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of tender response frameworks ensuring consistency accuracy and impact across submissions.

Qualifications :

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelors or masters degree in a related field.
• Proven experience (3 years) as a Product Owner Business Analyst or in a similar role.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management.
• Excellent communication negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with tactical execution.
• Technical literacy sufficient to engage effectively with engineers.
• Knowledge of the Microsoft Office software suite (Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint Project Visio).
• Knowledge in the use of SAP & JIRA

Competencies and Abilities:

• Excellent communication skills particularly in English (fluently spoken and written) in addition to any local language spoken at the place of work.
• The ability and motivation to persistently pursue and achieve / drive effective results which drive the business forward.
• Collaboration and Influencing with a Global mindset cultural awareness.
• Proven matrix and stakeholder management skills/experience working virtually in diverse teams.
• Overall exceptional programme project and time management skills highly organised and detailed orientated
• The ability to make effective timely decisions in a complex global market by sourcing and analysing critical information.
• The understanding and recognition of the organisations commercial environment and positioning themselves their role and their actions in order to support the organisations commercial success.
• The ability to engage challenge and work effectively with others.
• The ability to build an effective network of relationships both internally and externally understanding their customers needs.
• Willing and able to identify and support change and continuous improvement in own and wider business environment.
• Ability to work in an international and multi-cultural environment

Professional competencies

• Ability to bring operational rigour to deliver Product roadmap delivering results
• Ability to be resourceful as well as strong at probing and translating information into insight
• Experience of collaborating in a cross functional and cross-cultural organisation with the ability to act as the bridge between the markets (sales) teams and the portfolio teams.

Additional Information :

Diversité et Inclusion

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We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin economic status disability age or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics where we celebrate support and embrace diversity.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

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Department / Functional Area: Marketing
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1