Product Owner (Lausanne)

Your first project will involve acting as Product Owner/ Application Manager on a multidisciplinary digitalization program. You will focus on management, development and operational excellence of the organization and information system in alignment with defined processes, for our client from the public administration sector. By fostering cross-functional partnerships, you will contribute to the rationalization of working methods and the optimal use of business applications. It is a full-time assignment that will require working 3 days per week onsite from Lausanne, Switzerland.

• Taking ownership of projects and ensuring alignment with quality, performance, cost, and time objectives;
• Determining and prioritizing project requirements, use cases and functional models, in collaboration with project principals and business entities;
• Organizing user testing and acceptance sessions to guarantee quality and suitability;
• Providing support to software users and assisting in incident resolution;
• Maintaining documentation such as Wikis, training materials and procedures to ensure up-to-date and effective use of systems;
• Developing partnerships and coordinating cross-functional initiatives of the consulting team, client and their partners to ensure project coherence, favoring transversal approaches, synergies and promoting functional interfaces between information systems;
• Contributing to the rationalization and streamlining the evolution of processes, working methods and the information system;
• Driving excellence in the the development, operating and management of business applications.

In your role, you will be working on projects as an expert in business analysis for Intelligent Automation. Your first project will be focusing on leading the Business Analysts team for the Intelligent Automation (IA) Competency Center focusing on Supply for our client from the Retail industry. It is a full-time assignment that will require working 5 days per week onsite from Pratteln (next to Basel), Switzerland.

• Leading opportunity and need identification, assessment, and prioritization approach for IA initiatives;
• Acting as qualification gatekeeper of the competency center by managing incoming IA requests, pipeline, and budget availability;
• Acting as business point of contact until use case moves to the production, ensuring plan update and monitoring;
• Ensuring the planning and timeline definition with internal (development teams) and business stakeholders;
• Planning and supporting activities performed by the other 2-3 BAs that are currently part of the team;
• Securing knowledge, adherence, and consistent use of defined IA ways of working;
• Ensuring close collaboration with business stakeholders, managing expectations, prioritization dialogues and potential escalations;
• Defining and implementing governance to handle the business stakeholders ensuring transparency and awareness;
• Analyzing and challenging business needs and processes;
• Reviewing, clarifying and controlling the quality of requirements (BRD sign off), ensuring traceability and documentation of business sign offs;
• Communicating, clarifying and safeguarding the evolving business needs during product life cycle;
• Handing over requirements to development;
• Breaking down business demands into features & stories, together with solution architect;
• Supporting the testing by reviewing test plan/checklist to ensure compliance with requirements.