EDGEWING - CYS - Product Owner (Project Management)

Leonardo; Chieti; Hybride; EUR 60 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

13th-month salary

Performance bonus

Well-being benefits

Résumé du poste

Leonardo is seeking a Senior Product Owner / Project Manager to maximize product value and ensure end-to-end delivery in a hybrid model. You will shape the product vision, maintain a prioritised backlog, and coordinate cross-functional teams between Italy and the JV Reading secondment, balancing governance with agile delivery.

You will translate business objectives into features and user stories, lead planning, manage risks, and drive continuous improvement while collaborating with architecture,

Qualifications

• Strong product management capability with vision setting and prioritisation.
• Excellent backlog management: decompose work into features, epics and user stories.
• Balance technical, business, compliance and risk considerations in prioritisation.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication across users, business and technical teams.
• Proven ability to facilitate cross functional collaboration across architecture, engineering, security and testing teams.
• High analytical thinking to translate problems into structured product and delivery needs.

Responsabilités

• Maximise product value by shaping and maintaining a clear, user centric product vision aligned to business objectives.
• Maintain a transparent, prioritised product backlog reflecting strategic priorities and stakeholder needs.
• Translate business goals into well-defined features, epics, and user stories with clear value.
• Lead structured project planning with governance, milestones and program alignment.
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies to protect delivery predictability and quality.
• Act as liaison between users, stakeholders and delivery teams with clear communication and alignment.
• Coordinate cross functional collaboration with architecture, engineering, security, BA and testing teams.
• Uphold quality by validating increments meet acceptance criteria and user needs.
• Ensure timely delivery through oversight of progress and evidence-based decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement via retrospectives and delivery insights.

Connaissances

Product management

Backlog management

Stakeholder engagement

Cross functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Risk & conflict management

Description du poste

Job Description:

Edgewing

Role Description

The Product Owner / Project Manager (PO/PM) is accountable for maximizing the value delivered by the product team and ensuring the end-to-end delivery of high-quality, user centric outcomes. This hybrid role requires balancing strategic product ownership—shaping vision, defining prioritisation, and driving value with structured project leadership, ensuring governance, timely delivery, and alignment with wider program objectives.

As the central connection point between stakeholders, users, and the delivery team, the PO/PM translates business objectives into a clear product vision, maintains a transparent and prioritised product backlog, and ensures the team understands the rationale behind each feature. Simultaneously, the role leads project planning, risk and issue management, cross-team coordination, and stakeholder communication to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery.

Key Accountabilities

• Maximise product value by shaping and maintaining a clear, user centric product vision aligned to business objectives.

• Maintain a transparent, prioritised product backlog that reflects strategic priorities, stakeholder needs, technical considerations, and user outcomes.

• Translate business goals into well-defined‑ features, epics, and user stories, ensuring the team understands the purpose and expected value behind each item.

• Lead structured project planning, ensuring delivery governance, milestone clarity, and alignment with wider programme objectives.

• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies proactively to protect delivery predictability and quality.

• Act as the central liaison between users, stakeholders, and delivery teams, ensuring consistent communication, alignment, and shared understanding.

• Coordinate cross functional‑ collaboration with architecture, engineering, security, business analysis, testing, and other delivery partners.

• Uphold quality standards by validating that delivered increments meet acceptance criteria, user needs, and programme expectations.

• Ensure timely, high-quality‑delivery through strong oversight of progress, escalation of blockers, and evidence based‑decision-making‑.

• Drive continuous improvement by leveraging retrospectives, feedback loops, and delivery insights to refine processes, team performance, and product outcomes.

Skills and Experience

_ Essential _

• Strong product management capability, including vision setting, prioritisation, and value driven decision-making.

• Excellent backlog management skills with the ability to decompose work into clear, actionable features, epics, and user stories.

• Skilled in balancing technical, business, compliance, and risk considerations when making prioritisation decisions.

• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, able to bridge the gap between users, business teams, and technical delivery.

• Proven ability to facilitate cross functional collaboration across architecture, engineering, security, testing, and business analysis teams.

• High degree of analytical thinking, able to translate business problems into structured product and delivery needs.

• Ability to manage conflict, resolve ambiguity, and drive clarity in complex delivery environments.

Engagement, recognition of talent, and care for our people’s well‑being and safety are the cornerstones of our corporate culture.

Every day, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and stimulating work environment, actively promoting the principles of inclusion, equity, and diversity.

What do we offer?

The applicable collective labour agreement is the Italian National Collective Labour Agreement (CCNL) for the Private Metalworking Industry and Plant Installation Sector;

Hybrid working model;

Employment status: Executive-level employee;

Permanent contract with Italy as the base location;

The role includes a secondment of at least two years to Reading, the headquarters of the Joint Venture (JV);

13th-month salary;

Performance bonus linked to business results;

Annual welfare benefits worth €250;

Ongoing training and professional development opportunities, covering both technical and soft skills;

Well-being initiatives: we place great importance on the economic, physical, social, and psychological well‑being of our people, offering solutions tailored to their needs.

The Company reserves the right to determine the employment grade and compensation package based on objective criteria identified during the selection process, taking into account the selected candidate’s seniority, experience, and the requirements of the role, in compliance with the principles of fairness, transparency, and equal opportunities established by applicable laws and regulations .

Seniority:

Senior

Primary Location:

IT - Roma - Via Laurentina

Additional Locations:

IT - Chieti Scalo, IT - Firenze - Campi Bisenzio, IT - Genova - Fiumara, IT - Napoli - Pomigliano, IT - Torino - C.so Marche

Contract Type:

Permanent

Total Base Pay Range:

60-75k

Hybrid Working:

Hybrid