Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
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Role description:
We are looking for and Analytics Product Owner who will be responsible for achieving the vision of our products. Working closely and collaboratively with analytics experts, customer facing and software engineering colleagues, the Analytics Product Owner will identify and prioritise the features and functions of the product to ensure that customer desirability, commercial viability and technical feasibility are balanced throughout the development process. The Analytics Product Owner will ensure that development delivery, timelines and velocity is matched to the demands of the market.
Our analytics products and associated platform has significant strategic importance both for Arcadis Gen, and Arcadis. As a result, the Analytics Product Owner will already have experience in analytics and further opportunity to grow and develop their skills and experience as products themselves develops. In addition, the role provides a great opportunity to build a strong personal profile with senior stakeholders in both organisations, Arcadis and ArcadisGen.
Arcadis Gen has a need for a Analytics Product Owners with experience in the Asset Management, Asset Performance Management and Analytics solutions space. You will be familiar with the asset lifecycle and processes. You will know the analytics software solutions market, covering COTS products such as EDA, Copperleaf, with an understanding of Asset Management products such as Maximo, Infor, SAP as preferable. You will have experience with implementation of such tools in Enterprise or SMEs.
Our products solve problems and unlock data on the physical asset lifecycle. You will be working with a mix of teams who are developing our next generation software products on our Arcadis Gen platform as working with teams who are working our existing product sets. We are rapidly expanding the number and size of our product teams, which you will be instrumental in influencing what they do.
Role accountabilities:
- Analytics Product Roadmap guidance - guiding, sharing and maintaining the development of the
- Analytics roadmap, using prior knowledge of application and implementation. Ensuring that the roadmap balances desirability, viability and feasibility, and that it works with the analytics community stakeholders and emerging market intelligence.
- Analytics Functional Design - using expertise in Analytical modelling and wider EDA modules to produce the functional design of the system prior to implementation - this needs ratification by the lead Data Scientist.
- Backlog ownership - Building, sharing and maintaining the backlog of prioritised work activities required to ensure that the platform progresses along the roadmap. Prioritisation of the backlog using knowledge of the EDA platform and analytics is a key part of the Analytics Product Owner’s responsibility, as it defines the sequence of sprints that the technical team will work to.
- Boost development speed - Inspire and guide the development team to fulfil the roadmap ensuring focus is on the high value items and ensure that we meet customer consumption quality.
- Communication & Risk Management - Communicating delivery risk and creation of risk mitigation plans is essential.
- Vision and Direction - Ability to support the overview of the other EDA modules and EDA team collaboration is essential.
- Driving development velocity - Lead and motivate the Development Team and Architecture Owner to deliver against the roadmap. Accountable for the delivery using waterfall methodology to time and quality of the Build Team against significant customer commitments. Consequently, communicating delivery risk and interdependencies with other EDA modules and teams is essential.
- Support sales & marketing activity - Work closely and collaboratively with the Sales and Marketing teams to equip them with the product knowledge, insights and value statements that will make our products a compelling proposition. This will include supporting face-face meetings and bid materials, using knowledge of analytics and demonstrating the platform with current and prospective customers.
- Bring broader analytics insights to our products - Use knowledge of Analytics applications and implementation to guide the ongoing delivery and roadmap. Build relationships and share this knowledge freely with the broader Gen Strategy, Ecosystem and Product domains to ensure a unified approach.
- Exemplify collaborative behaviours - The successful development of the platform requires seamless collaboration across the EDA delivery teams, wider solutions and implementation delivery, and with the Global implementation and sales team within Arcadis. The Analytics Product Owner will need to be a role-model of exemplar collaborative behaviours.
You are also responsible for delivering:
- The Platform Roadmap, and its ongoing development
- The Analytics Product Functional Design
- The prioritized Backlog required to achieve the Roadmap, with risks within the Build teams and wider EDA module interdependencies monitored and managed
- A schedule of deliverables to enact at time, cost and quality to progress technical development.
- A motivated and high-performing development team
- Sales and marketing support for demonstrating the platform and contributing to bid activity, as required.
- Compete clarity of product vision, EDA interdependencies and status across all stakeholders within Arcadis Gen and Arcadis
Qualifications & Experience:
We’ll be looking for someone with experience gained in complex, fast paced and often customer facing roles of a similar nature. Working in a global organisation with an analytics focus is ideal, and experience of software products and product ownership is a must.
The ideal candidate will:
Be an expert in Analytics and analytics modelling and is expected to advise the PM, Lead Data Scientist and other stakeholder on Analytics tool kit technology and techniques need an in-depth understanding of Analytical Modelling and CIP processes have experience in creating and / or implementing Asset Models produce the functional design of the system prior to implementation - this needs ratification by the lead Data Scientist.
Additionally they will have good knowledge and understanding of existing digital toolsets on the market and be able to identify and communicate what makes the Arcadis Gen platform different and better. Experience in a software development environment is essential. Experience in the built environment sectors would be beneficial but not essential.
Essential Experience & Capabilities
- Experience in Product Ownership
- Working towards a relevant qualification in Product Ownership
- Waterfall Product Development experience
- Product Requirements Definition experience
- Product Planning, Prototyping & Wireframing, leading to the production of the function
- Experience in defining and prioritising product roadmaps
- 3+ years Asset Performance Management knowledge and
- 4+ years Analytics knowledge, including implementation in an enterprise environment for major asset owners
Beneficial Not Essential
- Product Management experience
- Project Management experience
- Budgeting experience
- Application of design thinking and engagement metrics capture
- Learning design and development
- 3+ years Asset Management knowledge
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
