Product Owner (Core Business Transformation Projec

Michigan Farm Bureau Family of Companies•Lansing, MI

35d

About The Position

The Product Owner drives organizational performance and improvement by analyzing current and desired organizational structures, business processes, and workflows. The role assesses and helps create effective business models and their integration with technology, and promotes consistency across deliverables. The Product Owner is responsible for the success of a product, project, or process; makes critical decisions and recommendations; and works to understand user and customer needs and business goals while collaborating with development teams and stakeholders to deliver results that meet those needs. This position performs an internal consultancy role, investigating business objectives, workflows, and processes; identifying options for improving business systems; and bridging business needs with improved processes and information technology. The Product Owner participates in eliciting, documenting, and facilitating requirements through interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and task and workflow analysis. The role also reviews market, competitive, and industry research, data analysis, and assessments to develop fact-based recommendations for product and process standardization.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

At least five years of insurance experience in a related field.
Strong background in project methodology, project management, business analysis, testing, and project governance.
Two to five years of management experience.
IIA, CPCU, CBAP, or equivalent designations.

Responsibilities

Analyze existing and desired organizational structures, business processes, and workflow needs.
Assess and help create effective business models and their integration with technology.
Promote consistency across deliverables and drive the success of a product, project, or process.
Use critical thinking to make decisions and recommendations.
Understand user and customer needs and business goals, and collaborate with development teams and stakeholders to deliver results that meet those needs.
Investigate business objectives, workflows, and processes in an internal consultancy capacity.
Identify options for improving business systems and connect business needs with improved processes and information technology.
Elicit, document, and facilitate requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, site visits, 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.