Asset Management - Product Owner II

Location

Role is based at the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town

Job Classification

Nedgroup Investments is an award-winning global investment business with a growing presence in Europe. Nedgroup Investments offers a wide range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors. Nedgroup Investments is a division of Nedbank Group Ltd, leveraging the investment and financial expertise of one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups. The Nedgroup Investments Best of Breed™ philosophy sees us partner with select fund managers who we believe are able to provide consistent long-term outperformance for our clients. These fund managers are experts in their field of specialisation and we tend to partner with them for long periods of time giving them sufficient opportunity to deliver on their mandate objectives. We obsess about long-term performance and our top priority is to deliver a superior investment experience for our clients.

Job Family

Product, Process and Product

Career Stream

Product

Leadership Pipeline

MS Expert 

FAIS Affected

Job Purpose

To play a critical role in ensuring the successful development and delivery of high-quality products. Have  a deep understanding of customer needs, strong business acumen, and effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams. is responsible for defining and prioritizing product features, guiding the development process, and maximizing the value delivered to customers and stakeholders on a team level  and is able to effectively prioritise and manage a complex backlog and work effectively across multiple teams.

Job Responsibilities

• Define the scope to be delivered in the iterations in alignment with the Product Manager’s vision 
• Lead iteration review meetings to share iteration performance and latest product features
• Drive the team to quantify and mitigate impediments impacting the completion of release/iteration goals, managing escalations where necessary
• Provide input into specifications for product features so that it is clearly understood by the development teams
• Contribute to design, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and test cases the architectural runway and continuous value flow
• Prioritise the team backlog for implementation to prioritise against value, readiness and product priorities, which enable the timelines.
• Contribute to ART backlog prioritisation, and co-ordinate across the ART during PI Planning
• Act as an ambassador for the delivery roadmap of the product and ensure that the right solutions are built in the right way through collaboration with senior stakeholders and the agile team 
• Lead the program increment planning product release plans and set and meet expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Incorporate feature requests from stakeholders and requirements from the agile team and product performance feedback into the product roadmap in alignment with the product manager
• Plan releases and upgrades in alignment with product requirements 
• Contribute to solution design plans, product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities for the product or component owned by the Agile team 
• Collaborate with development teams to deliver innovative solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency
• Enable connection between the team and senior stakeholders ensuring the identified problem and /or opportunity is solved
• Ensure alignment across customer experience standards 
• Have a clear understanding of the prioritized product features to be delivered between senior stakeholders, negotiating requirements and priority as necessary
• Advocate the customer needs and priorities to the team in order to ensure the voice of customer is present in all sessions and delivery is aligned to customer needs
• Attend and contribute to agile nWoW ceremonies and PI planning to enable the Agile team to work and plan effectively to deliver value
• Coordinate any common objectives and dependencies with other Product owners to manage capacity and deliverables  
• Ensure adherence to enterprise priority principles to maximise value delivery across the organisation
• Collaborate with Chapter COEs to clearly understand and adopt their practices, principles, and ways of working 
• Contribute to and engage with product owner CoE to advance the practices and quality of product owners in the organisation
• Lead Agile Team members to work according to Nedbank and industry best practices.
• Prepare for PI Planning by understanding the Vision and Program Increments, forecasting work through Roadmaps, and managing the Team Backlog

Job Responsibilities Continue

People Specification

We believe in employing highly motivated, sharp and quality orientated people that thrive in a culture that celebrates and supports diversity within an environment that is creative, collaborative, challenging and dynamic.  Aligned to our core purpose of enabling our investors to achieve their investment goals, we are committed to enabling our staff achieve their full potential and long-term career growth at Nedgroup Investments. Specifically for this role, we are looking for:
High standard of personal presentation.
Self-motivated and well organised with an ability to adapt and tackle a wide variety of challenges.
Ability to deal with people both within the organisation and external customers

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

B.Comm/ IT 

Essential Certifications

Preferred Certifications

Scaled Agile Framework (Leading SAFe, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), 
Entry level BA certification 

Minimum Experience Level

3 to 6 years 

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies