Principal, Digital Product Owner

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Schneider Digital is the digital department of Schneider Electric, leading the digital transformation in the company by giving support globally to our internal teams and our clients. Schneider Digital consists of 6 Digital 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 looking for a talented Digital Product Owner for our Pricing team. As part of the digital capability team, your mission is to ensure that the global pricing solutions match the needs of the customers, markets, and business. Collaborate with 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.

What will you do?

The Digital Product Owner is the link between the process & digitalization's needs defined by the pricing domain and the solution delivered by the solution teams

Key Areas of Intervention:

1. Digitalization of new processes in global solutions under Pricing Capability Scope
2. Platform Releases
3. Solution Deployments

1. 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 capability owner / requestor
  • if the request is not clear, too complex for the expected value or even far from users' consideration
  • if you feel the request is uncomplete (propose additional user stories)
• 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

1. As part of Deployments

• Support the definition of the deployment methodology
  • Deployment team organization, activities, sequence, R&R...
  • Documentation to be used or to be created for deployment
• Perform Knowledge transfer sessions to the deployment team - Training on the E2E process, master data, platforms and tool usage
• Stay strongly involved in the first deployments after pilot
• 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

1. As part of Releases, for improvements of global applications 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 Deployment Leads (or other stakeholders) what relevant changes have been included in the release and how it is going to work (high level).
• Regularly explain to Deployment Leads (or other stakeholders) what is already groomed and available in the backlog.
• Keep functional documentation with latest release changes.
• Support Deployment Leads with the update of the relevant deployment documentation of each module with the latest relevant release changes.
• Document story details (functional documentation) based on the epics after reviewing with Capability Owner, Engineers, and Architects
• Collaborate with Capability Owner and Platform Owner to address customer needs and enable use cases
  • Identify and analyse business needs, conduct requirements gathering, and define objectives
  • Lead backlog grooming to decompose and estimate stories, clarifiy 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

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

• • 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

• Soft Skills:

• • 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