Product Owner (Lausanne)

PRODUCT OWNER (LAUSANNE)

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

YOUR ROLE

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.

YOUR PROFILE

• Master's degree in Information Systems or a similar field, ideally supplemented by an additional training in ITIL, Hermes, and/or agile methodologies;
• At least 5 years of experience in leading IT projects in a product Owner role;
• Experience in working for and good understanding of public administration will be an advantage;
• Strong analytical skills, global vision of project issues, ability to grasp complex problems in a synthetic way;
• Strong interpersonal skills, including negotiation abilities, customer service approach and solutions-oriented mindset;
• Familiarity with agile concepts and methodologies, with proven experience in applying them;
• Proficiency in French, English and German (minimum B2 level).

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

• We provide the tools and support to set you up for success from day one;
• Experience the benefits of hybrid working, offering flexibility and ensuring work-life balance;
• Harness the strength of diverse teams, fostering innovation and inclusive collaboration;
• We offer additional benefits such as 5 weeks of vacation, Employee referral bonus, Company shares program and Annual contribution to a fitness subscription.

Capgemini Switzerland is an equal opportunity employer. We promote equality and dignity in all aspects of recruitment and employment, and all offers of employment and promotions are made on the basis of performance, competence and ability. 

Starting date: Immediately
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

 

ABOUT CAPGEMINI 

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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