Product Lead Platform & Enablers Solutions Service (Expert) - ELIA

Adjugo; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybride; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

ELIA is seeking a Product Lead for Platform & Enablers Solutions Service (Expert) to own and drive a critical product line within PES. You will shape a clear, data-driven vision, translate strategy into bets, and ensure measurable value for customers, partners, Elia, and society.

The role emphasizes governance, autonomy, and collaboration with operations and account teams. You will coach Product Managers and Owners, foster outcome-focused ways of working, and align with regulators on priorities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience with a proven track record at senior or lead level.
• Strong experience owning a product line or end-to-end portfolio.
• Ability to translate product vision into a customer-focused strategy.
• Experience collaborating across Product, Engineering, Design, and Data teams.
• Experience engaging regulators and diverse stakeholders in energy contexts.

Responsabilités

• Ensure regular customer conversations to steer product direction.
• Run structured product experiments to validate bets and iterate.
• Represent product senior leadership in governance and decision forums.
• Enable operational feedback loops across teams and functions.
• Improve product line solutions by aligning with market needs and priorities.
• Align customer account managers to ensure coherent product delivery.
• Leverage client account knowledge to refine roadmaps and bets.
• Develop six core competencies within the product org.
• Define product team roles and development plans.
• Set measurable product KPIs and governance for roadmap execution.
• Own product line budget and track performance against targets.
• Engage federal and regional regulators on priorities and solution design.

Connaissances

Agile product models

Cross-functional

Data-driven

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Dutch/French

English

Description du poste

Product Lead Platform & Enablers Solutions Service (Expert) - ELIA

Dates: 2027-01-01 — 2027-06-30

Arrangements: 100% work regime; onsite presence required by default 2 days per week.

The Product Lead will own a product line within Elia's Platform Energy Solutions product cluster and ensure its strategic success. The role defines and continuously refines an insight-driven vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with PES and Elia priorities. The Product Lead translates strategic priorities into clear product bets and ensures the product line delivers measurable value to customers, partners, Elia, and society. The position operates at the heart of energy-transition challenges, including evolving energy markets, flexibility, and timely connection of new production and consumption units.

The role creates the conditions for product teams to thrive by providing context, autonomy, support, and clear governance. It leads product ceremonies, enables continuous discovery and delivery, represents the product line to senior leadership, and serves as the primary escalation point for product decisions. Close collaboration with operations, key account managers, other Product Leads, and multidisciplinary teams ensures customer knowledge, operational feedback, and cross-product dependencies shape priorities. The Product Lead also sets measurable KPIs and is ultimately accountable for the product line's budget and performance metrics.

People leadership and external stakeholder engagement are central to the assignment. The Product Lead coaches Product Managers and Product Owners across Strategy, Discovery, Delivery, Marketing, Analytics, and Leadership, while defining roles, responsibilities, and development plans. The role fosters evidence-based, outcome-focused ways of working and governs products across their full lifecycle from innovation and discovery to in-life management and retirement. It also leads client and partner engagement and aligns with federal and regional regulators on priorities and solution design.

Top Reasons to Apply

Lead energy transition

Shape strategic products

Drive groundbreaking technologies

Develop leadership skills

Diverse collaborative team

Additional Responsibilities

• Ensure regular customer conversations
• Run structured product experiments
• Represent product senior leadership
• Enable operational feedback loops
• Improve product line solutions
• Align customer account managers
• Leverage client account knowledge
• Develop six core competencies
• Define product team roles
• Define team development plans
• Set measurable product KPIs
• Own product line budget
• Own product performance metrics
• Engage federal regional regulators
• Align regulatory solution priorities
• 5+ years of product management experience with a proven track record at senior or lead level.
• Strong experience owning a product line or segment end-to-end.
• Ability to define and communicate a compelling product vision.
• Ability to translate product vision into an insight-driven, customer-focused strategy.
• Experience managing a portfolio of products
• Ability to make prioritisation decisions based on business value
• Ability to make prioritisation decisions based on customer impact
• Ability to make prioritisation decisions based on feasibility
• Strong analytical and data-driven approach
• Comfort setting OKRs
• Comfort tracking product KPIs
• Ability to make decisions grounded in evidence
• Ability to navigate complex landscapes including key account managers, operations teams, and executive leadership
• Coaching mindset with ability to build maturity in people
• High emotional intelligence
• Ability to resolve conflicts
• Ability to build trust
• Ability to align teams through influence rather than authority
• Good level of Dutch and/or French
• Good level of English
• For non-EU candidates: work permit allowing work in Belgium
• For non-EU candidates: valid residence permit confirming right of residence in Belgium

Technical skills

• Fluency in agile product operating models.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams across Product, Engineering, Design, and Data.
• Knowledge of energy market structures.
• Knowledge of grid operations.
• Knowledge of flexibility services.
• Experience with market design for regulated product environments.
• Ideally, end-to-end product ownership experience in an energy context.
• Ideally, end-to-end product ownership experience in a utility context.
• Ideally, end-to-end product ownership experience in a regulated infrastructure context.