Product Owner (Core Business Transformation Projec

Michigan Farm Bureau; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401K matching

Job summary

Michigan Farm Bureau seeks a Product Owner to analyze and transform core business processes, ensuring alignment with technology and strategic goals. You will bridge business needs with IT, drive requirements, and guide cross-functional teams to deliver value.

The role emphasizes stakeholder facilitation, market research, and data-driven decision-making to standardize processes across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in insurance, business, technology, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Excel, Word and PowerPoint required.
• Proven negotiation and facilitation skills required.
• Public speaking and presentations skills required.

Responsibilities

• Analyze current and future workflows to inform business models and technology integration.
• Serve as internal consultant to assess objectives and improve processes with IT.
• Elicit and document requirements via interviews, analysis, workshops and site visits.
• Review market and industry data to make fact-based recommendations for standardization.

Skills

Negotiation

Public speaking

Requirements gathering

Facilitation

Education

Bachelors degree in related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Product Owner (Core Business Transformation Projec

To drive successful organizational performance and improvements by analyzing the existing or ideal organization and current and future state business processes and workflow needs, by assessing and helping to create effective business models and their integration with technology, and by driving consistency across all deliverables. To be responsible for the success of the product, project or process. To provide critical thinking to make necessary decisions and recommendations. To understand user and customer needs and business goals, and collaborate with development teams and stakeholders to deliver results which meet those needs.

Perform an internal consultancy role that has responsibility for investigating business objectives, workflows and processes, identify options for improving business systems, and bridge the needs of the business with the use of improved business processes and information technology.

Participate in elicitation, documentation and facilitation of requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and task and workflow analysis.

Review market, competitive and industry research, data analysis and assessments to create fact-based recommendations for product and process standardization.

Required

• Bachelors degree with a major in insurance, business, technology, or related field of study or equivalent experience required.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Excel, Word and PowerPoint required.
• Proven negotiation and facilitation skills required.
• Public speaking and presentations skills required.
• Willingness to pursue continuing job-related training and education required, including self-development assessments.

Preferred

• Minimum five years insurance background in related field preferred.
• Strong background in project methodology, project management, business analysis, testing, and project governance preferred.
• Two to five years management experience preferred.
• Designations in IIA, CPCU, CBAP or equivalent designations preferred.

Note: Farm Bureau offers a full benefit package including medical, dental, vision, and 401K.