Product Owner - DUUO

Co-operators Group Limited; Guelph; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading Canadian financial services co-operative as a Product Owner, driving agile initiatives and optimizing client value. With a strong focus on collaboration, you will support your team and stakeholders while leveraging your background in Property and Casualty Insurance. This role offers dynamic challenges and a commitment to fostering a culture of development and sustainability within the team.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance Services.
• Strong understanding and experience in an agile environment.
• Leadership/coaching experience is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Participate in developing roadmaps and delivering solutions.
• Maintain understanding of business partners' needs.
• Serve as the primary source of information for the team.

Skills

Critical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Post-secondary degree in Business Administration

Finance

Information Technology (IT)

Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Language : This role operates in English.

Additional Information : This / these role(s) is / are currently vacant

The Opportunity :

We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That's why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients, and our communities.

Duuo was created by The Co-operators, a proudly Canadian insurance company founded by a small group of farmers and social pioneers. Duuo is the 21st century version of this mindset! We're dedicated to creating new, on-demand solutions to meet the emerging needs of Canadians.

When you join Duuo, you'll instantly become a key member of a small, energetic, and ambitious team. So if you like the idea of an ever-evolving job description and contributing to a wide variety of projects, we think you'll love working at Duuo!

As the Product Owner, you will play a key role in conveying the vision of the business stakeholders, to an Agile team, accountable for delivering on approved initiatives. The Product Owner takes direction from the business stakeholders and leads the teams in delivering on the initiatives in the backlog that align to strategy and meet the current and future goals and needs.

How you will create impact :

• Participating in the development of roadmaps and delivering solutions that will maximize value.
• Applying incremental delivery principles to drive the delivery of business value, communicating progress, eliciting feedback, and enabling stakeholder reviews to validate processes.
• Maintaining a good understanding of business partners, their expectations, needs and points of pain to effectively communicate this knowledge to the development team to focus on deliverables and priorities.
• Utilizing stakeholder relationships and maintaining a good understanding of clients, users and product to prioritize needs against development.
• Serving as the primary source of information for the team, offering clear definitions of the targeted capability, the intended value to the customer and all requirements.

How you will succeed :

• You have an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies and ability to influence change, with a primary focus on client needs.
• You use critical thinking skills to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments, draw conclusions, and proactively propose solutions.
• You have strong communication skills to clearly convey messages and explore diverse points of view.
• You build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues.

To join our team :

• You have five years of experience in Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance Services.
• You have completed a post-secondary degree in Business Administration, Finance, , Information Technology (IT), Computer Science or a relate discipline.
• You have a strong understanding and demonstrate experience working in an agile environment.
• You have demonstrated interpersonal skills and the ability to establish effective working relationships with team members as well as both internal and external stakeholders at various levels.
• Having strong working knowledge of software development, JIRA and Confluence are an asset.
• You have proven ability to think strategically and execute plans effectively. Having leadership / coaching experience is an asset.
• Having or working towards the Disciplined Agile, Certified Scrum Master, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or other professional designation is an asset.
• Having or working towards the Disciplined Agile, Certified Scrum Master, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or other professional designation is an asset.

What to you need to know :

• You will travel occasionally.
• You will be subject to a background check as a condition of employment, in the event you are the successful candidate.

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