V-IT is looking for a Product Owner for a client in Antwerp.

As Product Owner, you will report to the Infrastructure Manager.  You will manage the lifecycle of the global solution. Works closely with all relevant stakeholders to lead them to maximize operational excellence and customer satisfaction. Secondly, you ensure the solution is designed according to a master specification and signed off by all stakeholders.  Strong focus on end user adoption, securing training material and coordination amongst the regions to safeguard the same user experience globally are also key elements of this job. Lastly, you'll drive the continuous improvement of the quality of the solutions in all aspects of stability, availability, development, training, and documentation.

 Roles & Responsibilities

• End to End accountable for the solution domain.
• You will be responsible for all solutions global wide with regards to servers and tooling that is needed to manage servers (both on prem, private datacenter and cloud).
• Responsible for processes with regards to server lifecycle, to ensure that the inventory of servers stays up to date and servers stay in a compliant state.
• Responsible for working out/improving services with regards to server hosting in line with business expectations
• Responsible for reviewing partner invoices & create transparent costing towards the business areas
• Collaborate with IT Services regions to optimize/improve server hosting services.
• Follow up on server hosting projects that are in line with the server hosting roadmap.
• To collect and interpret customer satisfaction, current needs and future opportunities. Propose, based on the findings, a solid and long-term solution strategy for improvement in line with the architecture roadmap.
• Be the solution ambassador towards users & stakeholders and ensure regular communication of the status of the solutions’ roadmap, technical changes, scope of delivery from the vendor, and additional value drivers.
• Ensure user adoption of solution’s domain related services.
• Participate in the solution design process in collaboration with the architect and technical experts.
• Ensure the adherence to the ITSM processes for the solution lifecycle: Incident & Request, Change, Problem, Event & monitoring, Knowledge, Configuration, CMDB among the principal ones.
• Monitor and review the Partner’s service performance & financials
• Coordinate the development of service level agreements and on-going management of service level compliance.
• Communicate/ prioritize/ resolve delivery issues & risk.
• Support the Regions through extensive interaction & training on the provided solutions, documentation, promotion material and knowledge base.
• Ensure a common user experience across the regions by the implementation of best practices, processes & procedures.
• Change Management: Participate in Global / Regional Change Advisory Boards. Follow up on change requests beginning to end.
• Dispute and Escalation Management: Assist the Vendor and Contract Manager and regional IT teams with escalations and disputes.
• Direct the planning, development, implementation, evaluation and on-going management of new and existing services.
• Work with compliance, audit, risk and security teams to ensure that significant risks related to the service are identified and actions are taken to ensure that they are managed and compliant with legal, regulatory and contractual requirements affecting the enterprise.
• Prepare and review service performance reports identifying any significant issues and variances, initiating, where necessary, corrective actions and ensuring that all outstanding issues are followed up.
• Financial control of the solutions/products in scope with the assitance of the Business Controller.

Technical/Soft Skills

• Knowledge of Server OS systems (mainly Windows, but also partially Linux) including management tooling
• Knowledge of server hosting on prem, private datacenter and cloud (mainly Azure)
• Experience in cloud is a plus
• General knowledge on networking, active directory is a plus
• Knowledge of PowerBI is a plus
• Security mindset
• Able to do stakeholder/vendor management
• Able to explain solutions in a comprehensive way and ability to convince people
• Ability to think long term

Educational Requirements:

• University degree or equivalent experience
• ITIL certification is a plus

Key Behaviours and Competencies

• A person with a passion for the job
• End user centric and business minded
• Objective oriented, self-organized and self-driven
• Strong leadership observed