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Product Owner 

Start Date: 1st October

End Date: 30th June 2027

Location: Brussels

Onsite Presence: Required for 2 days per week

Work Regime: 100%

Role Overview:

The Product Owner will be responsible for maximizing the value delivered by one of the three SGS Product Teams within the SGS Product Line. This role involves translating the product vision into a clear, prioritized, and delivery-ready backlog, ensuring that user stories and acceptance criteria reflect customer and end-user needs while supporting digital transformation ambitions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and communicate the product vision, priorities, and roadmap for the assigned SGS product team, aligned with the SGS product line strategy and objectives.
• Own, prioritize, and continuously improve the backlog, ensuring clear epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and value-driven delivery choices.
• Conduct continuous discovery with expert communities and end users to ensure that team outputs are grounded in validated needs.
• Coordinate sprint and release planning with other SGS Product Owners, resolving dependencies to maintain coherence across SGS.
• Align stakeholders across various departments, translating business needs into product outcomes and managing expectations on scope, value, and direction.
• Accept completed user stories, ensure sufficient testing and documentation, and support the adoption of delivered capabilities.
• Promote Agile methodologies, continuous improvement, and pragmatic innovation to enhance efficiency, data quality, and study execution.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience, with proven experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar role in an Agile, digital, or product-oriented environment.
• Strong understanding of the energy sector and TSO Grid Development context, including grid studies, scenarios, long-term planning, and portfolio prioritization.
• Experience with data products, analytical tools, workflow digitalization, decision-support tooling, or productization of business-critical tools is a strong asset.
• Ability to translate expert user needs into clear product outcomes, backlog priorities, and acceptance criteria, supported by qualitative and quantitative evidence.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-alignment skills, with the credibility to guide a multidisciplinary team without hierarchical authority.
• Fluent in English and able to communicate professionally in Dutch and/or French.
• Collaborative, improvement-oriented mindset, fostering transparency, experimentation, continuous learning, and leadership behaviors.