Product Owner Guidewire

Guidewire Product Owner - Commercial Insurance

For a major insurance transformation program (Brussels Region), we are looking for an experienced freelance Product Owner with Guidewire experience to join a greenfield Guidewire Cloud implementation within Commercial Insurance.

The Product Owner will take ownership of PolicyCenter and Product Definition, working closely with business stakeholders, Business Analysts, configuration developers and other members of a distributed Agile delivery team.

Key Responsibilities

• Take Product Ownership for Guidewire PolicyCenter / Product Definition
• Define and prioritise business and functional requirements
• Build, maintain and prioritise the product backlog
• Translate requirements into clear user stories together with the Business Analysts
• Drive scope and priorities throughout the different delivery phases
• Contribute to solution design and ensure alignment between business and technical teams
• Provide direction and partial leadership to the Scrum team
• Work closely with 3 - 4 Business Analysts and Guidewire configuration developers
• Coordinate with stakeholders and project team members across multiple locations
• Support the upcoming inception phase and subsequent build and delivery activities

Profile

• Strong experience as a Product Owner within complex IT transformation programs
• Previous Guidewire experience, with PolicyCenter being particularly relevant
• Good understanding of insurance policy and product processes
• Strong experience with backlog management, requirements, prioritisation and user stories
• Insurance experience; Non-Life/ P&C experience is highly relevant
• Commercial Insurance experience is an advantage but not a strict requirement
• Strong Agile/Scrum experience
• Able to bridge business, functional and technical stakeholders
• Comfortable providing direction to a multidisciplinary and distributed Scrum team
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Professional working English

Project Context

• Greenfield Guidewire Cloud implementation
• Focus on Commercial Insurance
• PolicyCenter and Product Definition at the core of the role
• Scrum team of approximately 10 people, including 3–4 Business Analysts and configuration developers
• International/distributed project environment
• First release currently moving into User Acceptance Testing
• Next release starts with an inception phase covering requirements, solution design and user-story backlog creation
• Earlier onboarding preferred to build project and policy knowledge ahead of the next major delivery phase