Product Owner

**MISSION DU POSTE / **AXA is a global leader in financial protection, representing nearly 100 billion Euros worth of turnover across its 3 businesses (Life & Savings, Property & Casualty and Asset Management). AXA Partners, launched in Sept 2015, is a new business unit dedicated to developing AXA’s partnership business that makes up ~10% of the AXA business globally. The mission of AXA partners is to design, implement and manage relationships with selected global partners and support AXA entities to develop successful local partnerships.AXA Partners “Focus & Transform strategy” is shaping Global Operations’ strategic ambition: “bringing simplicity and enforcing transversality, breaking down silos, to succeed in providing a superior customer experience in line with our Customer2020 ambition”.Global Operations has 3 strategic priorities:- Reposition AXA Partners as the Preferred Business Partner- Boost AXA Partners to become an Agile Global Organization- Mature AXA Partners as a Safe, Secure and Resilient company“Becoming a tech-led company” is one of the 8 strategic enablers and Information and Technology will play a continuously increasing role to help AXA Partners achieve its transformation.In this context, we are looking for a Product Owner.The Product Owner is the "Mini-CEO" of the product. He / She has the full accountability of the product throughout the entire life cycle, including user needs, communication, finance, build, transition, operations, support, continual improvement and decommissioning.The Product Owner is instrumental in ensuring the sustainability and the cost efficiency of its products with the primary target to deliver value for the Group.The Product Owner must identify what processes and what architecture capabilities his product will be contributing to. He / She must federate all initiatives in a functional area in order to have the largest potential customer base for his product.The Product Owner is the content authority on features and user stories, providing the team with guidance as to what has to be delivered and ensuring flow of the Product through the Squad Backlog.**DIMENSION DU POSTE / DIMENSIONS OF ROLE**- Reporting/ Working Relationships:- Head of IT & Transformation Team- Offshore teams- Product Owners from other business lines and business units- Business stakeholders of the MOTOR LoB- Data Owners**ACTIVITÉS DU POSTE / KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**- This role will mainly be in the management of MOTOR unit related platforms:- Be accountable for estimates on Change Requests, User Stories, Project efforts- Be responsible for stability and security of the named portfolio in line with changes requested by the business.- Be responsible to ensure the changes are delivered in terms of quality, budget & stability for the present, medium and long terms aims of the portfolio.- He/ She will be responsible jointly with the Business owner:- Develop and manage services as a product across their entire lifecycle: lead the ideation, development, launch, pricing and continual improvement of innovative products to drive maximum customer satisfaction.- Define the services from their conception to their launching/go-live and further maintenance.- Build new services: technical solution selection, costing, recommended pricing, recommended SLA- Drive the development of the services ensuring that these ones are profitable- Manage small / mid-size, multi-national development team.- Provide the Application owners with clear goals and aid in prioritising development so that sprints can be developped and tasks assigned accordingly.- Interact with senior personnel from all aspects of the business community (technical and non technical).- Assist in shaping business requirements into viable and valuable enhancements.- Provide clear and concise professional analysis and explanations to senior management on projects (current and future) to aid in budget planning and forecasting.- Provide a single point of contact for senior management to interrogate on escalated situations.- Communicating with the stakeholders to understand their requirements- Answering all questions from the team and providing necessary clarifications about the product- Accepting and approving completed work items, or parts of the product- Managing and refining the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and optimize the value of the work performed- Scheduling the sprint review, ensuring stakeholder attendance and leading parts of the meeting such as summarizing work completed- Deciding when to release the product- Coordinating delivery of the final product to the appropriate users**Su Perfil** COMPÉTENCES & EXPÉRIENCE / SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**Must have:- Insurance Business knowledge- Deep experience in Agile Methodologies and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban,)- Technical background (preferably with Software engineering and coding experience).- Proven experience worki