Revenue Management Product Owner

Job purpose

As a Product Owner (PO) at Accelya, you bridge the gap between the customer and business and needs and the development organisation. You ensure that product and technology teams work together daily to make sure the delivery of products that customers love.

As a key leader in the Agile Revenue Management team, you maximise the value delivered by ensuring that the teams backlog is aligned with the customer and key stakeholder needs and the solution or capabilities needs are well understood.

As part of the Product and Technology organisation, you represent the business and customer within the Agile team working together with the Product Manager (PM), who defines why and what should be done, with what can be done, collaborating daily with the development team and development manager to ensure the use cases, acceptance tests are well understood, sized and the backlog is prioritized.

What will you do?

• In close partnership with the PM, as the PO you are responsible for the development stage of the product lifecycle, ensuring the customer and business voice is well understood throughout.
• By working with key stakeholders (PM, Architects etc.) you can create the requirements, user stories and acceptances tests that provide the freedom to the technology team to solve challenges, while making sure the product is solving the real business challenge.
• You understand the market and transformations occurring in the customer base, you represent the customer (buyer) and user (business user or end customer) in the planning process and prioritize the backlog.
• You work with the development management and team on estimations and expected release times, holding stakeholders account to commitments.
• You work with the teams planning and managing the backlog and allocate that work to the development capacity aligned with the PMs guidance.
• You welcome feedback and adapt plans from internal and external stakeholders and ensure quality, security and design are parts of every iteration.

What do you need to know?

• 6+ years professional experience in Revenue Management
• Expertise in data modelling and analytics
• Experience building data science solutions
• Strong analytical and math skills
• Professional experience in Product Owner (Revenue Management experience may offset Product Owner experience)
• Experience in the travel industry
• Experience diagramming solutions, e.g. sequence diagram, logical data models etc.
• Has a proven track record of action and execution in bringing products to market.
• An excellent communicator and team collaborator to ensure execution of the roadmap.
• Demonstrate technical curiosity and passion for exploring new technologies for future technical roadmap via continuous learning and self-development.
• Experience understanding technical and platform topics.
• Worked in Agile teams with a benefit of training or certification. An added benefit of SAFe processes.