Product Owner

Role: Product Owner

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Deadline for submitting CV’s: Asap

Start Date: 16/04/2025

End Date: 31/08/2025

Client:BNP Paribas Fortis

Description:

We are looking for a product owner to reinforce the product owner chapter within the Marketing & Communication department.

We are looking for a profile that can help support the transformation towards a more agile and effective Marketing & Communication department. You’ll work with a squad and stakeholders to determine the right priorities and translate the Marcom strategy into actions and projects that should help us achieve this strategy and business objectives.

The Agile Product Owner is in charge of expressing and prioritizing the needs of the product using a Product Backlog and has to ensure the structure and consistency of each Sprint.

You capture the marketing and communication needs of the stakeholders and translate the annual MarCom plan into a squad backlog (in close collaboration with cluster lead and marcom strategist).

2. You prioritize backlog items based on customer needs, strategic and commercial objectives of the bank/segments, and other relevant factors. You can make the necessary considerations in the event of conflicting interests, limited resources or tight deadlines.

3. You make sure that the objectives are completely clear/stable before the Squad starts a MarCom initiative.

4. You monitor the backlog and progress, speed and performance of the team.

5. You regularly make a business review/lookback regarding the achievements of the squad to learn from them and identify opportunities for improvement.

Agile requirements:

• a positive attitude and pragmatism

• ability to organize and (re-/de-)prioritize in a fast changing environment

• flexibility and the ability to adapt

• values feedback and continuous improvement

• strong focus on customer needs (and journeys) and the needs of internal stakeholders

• strong analytical and problem solving skills

• excellent communication and collaboration skills

• strong stakeholder management

• embracing scrum values: involvement, focus, openness, respect and courage
  
  

Education:Bachelor and/or master

Certification: Agile certification is a plus (but no must)

At leastClick here to enter numberyears of relevant experience

Technical Experience Mandatory:

• Excel

• Powerpoint

• MS teams

• sharepoint
  
  

Technical Experience preferable:

• Adobe Campaign

• Wrike
  
  

Business Experience Mandatory:

• Knowledge of the BNPP group

• Knowledge of the department’s business environment

• Segment and business line knowledge

• Expertise in agile methodologies

• Experience with change management
  
  

Business Experience Preferable

• knowledge of the hello bank! brand (pri/pro)

• Experience in marketing so that you can quickly familiarize yourself with the daily reality of the squads
  
  

Soft Skill:

• Ability to see the overall picture (helicopter view) - strategic thinking

• Analytical mind – conceptual thinking

• Negotiation and persuasion skills

• Structured approach

• Quality-minded and eye for detail

• Goal-oriented

• Open to change

• Leadership
  
  

Languages:

• Dutch At least a professional knowledge

• French At least a professional knowledge

• English Sound knowledge of English as well as (at least) one local language.