IS/IT Product & Service Owner (End-Point, Collaboration)

at  Thales

Location: Bucharest, Romania
The people we all rely on to make the world go round – they rely on Thales. Thales rely on its employees to invent the future: right here, right now.
Present in Romania for over 40 years, Thales is expanding its presence in the country by growing its Digital capabilities and by developing a Group Engineering Competence Centre (ECC). Operating from Bucharest, Thales delivers solutions in a number of core businesses, from ground transportation, space and defence, to security and aeronautics.
Several professional opportunities have arisen. If you are looking for the solidity of a Global Group that is at the forefront of innovation, but with the agility of a human structure that tailors to the personal development of its employees and allows opportunities for evolution in an international environment, then this is the place for you!

TOGETHER WE MAKE THE BIG AMBITIONS OF TOMORROW HAPPEN TODAY

On this position, you will join the Thales Next Gen IS/IT strategic development. Next Gen IS/IT is a core part of the Thales Group digital transformation, it aims at supporting Thales competitiveness by strengthening the relationship between businesses and functions. The program leverages agile methods to promote team empowerment while maximizing projects efficiency.

Next Gen IS/IT believes in a progressive approach to achieve a smooth, yet deep transformation of our ways of working in order to:

• Achieve a global governance
• Support business and functions facing new challenges
• Foster creativity and teamwork

In this context, we are looking for dynamic profiles for the role of Product & Service Owner: Product & Service Owners own a critical role by having the overall responsibility for developing, running, maintaining and continuously improve the Products/Services under their supervision.

COMPETENCIES:

• You can maintain the integrity of your legacy products/services while looking for opportunities to continuously improving the value to deliver.
• You have the ability to prioritize tasks according to their value and know how to manage your team’s workload.
• You know how to focus on stakeholders’ interests and deliveries by bringing quick results to your users.
• You are able to simplify and break down problems in a context where the functional area is complex.
• You Input into people development and performance.
• You have excellent organizational and time management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• You experienced Project management responsibilities relating to planning, scheduling, budgeting and reporting.
• You know Agile frameworks, Scrum, Kanban, Lean (mastery of Jira, Rally or Redmine type tool) and have a IS/IT Agile culture.
• You know how to develop a Service vision based on your understanding of your field and stakeholders’ needs (data modelling and object design principles like OOD and UML).
• You are proficient in English - negotiation level being necessary. French would be an asset.

SOFT SKILLS

• You are acting as a “Servant Leader” - and a coach - empowering and supporting your team members for them to achieve successes/qualitative deliveries and to always develop the value of their developments.
• You are recognized as a team player and enjoy collaborative work.
• You are able to coordinate and prioritize resources across various entities (e.g. CBU, Countries, Regions…).

• You operate at scale and provide the connection between multidisciplinary business areas and stakeholders to provide a valuable Product.
• You are a backlog owner; you elaborate and monitor user stories.
• You develop and oversee a Product Catalog & its delivery model.
• You are managing the Product value through user-centric Product KPIs.
• You make sure the necessary business processes are followed and participate in the governance of the Product/Services, including acting as a point of escalation for the delivery teams/Squad(s).
• You own and control the Product budget. You allocate funding to areas having high-priorities and high-value impacts.
• You communicate on the benefits and performance of the delivered Product/Service.
• Ultimately, you are responsible for the successful operation and continuous improvement of the Product you are managing.