Manager, Product Owner

Choose your next journey as Account Administrator-Alternative Operations with Millennium Trust Company and join a culture that empowers and where you can innovate. You will be celebrated, you will be challenged, and you can aspire to inspire. You are more than a colleague here; you are part of a COMMUNITY that goes ABOVE and BEYOND professionally and personally to make a difference.
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HOW YOU WILL SOAR:
The Manager, Product Owner will lead the product vision and delivery of Retirement and Custody Services initiatives focused primarily on operations processes. The incumbent will be empowered and accountable to create and deliver on a long-term roadmap while working closely with leadership and technical teams to ensure the roadmap supports and aligns with business and technology goals. The assigned squad(s) will be accountable for increasing operational efficiency, re-engineering and streamlining processes, finding innovate solutions to complex business problems, and retiring legacy systems while aligning tactical decisions with strategic architectural principles.

• Become an enterprise owner accountable for ongoing product delivery of assigned team(s)
• Develop and execute product roadmaps with a focus on measurable outcomes
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across multiple departments and vendors to elicit and analyze requirements, provide context for the product vision, identify constraints and risks, and align with organizational strategy and priorities
• Author and maintain User Stories and ultimately accept / approve for Production-readiness
• Groom and maintain product backlog and ensure enterprise-level prioritization across multiple departments
• Engage and collaborate with the team to create and manage Agile artifacts such as Product Roadmap, Backlog, Release Plan, Lessons Learned and information needed for prioritization and decision-making
• Work in partnership with the team and stakeholders to employ Agile methods, processes, tools and metrics to deliver value including ongoing product backlog refinement, product roadmaps and release planning
• Define KPIs and/or SLAs while monitoring and reporting on business and client metrics for the product
• Track and regularly share progress with stakeholders and the team
• Regularly assesses features and costs to determine if and when to proceed with a product
• Other duties as assigned

IF YOU HAVE SOME OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING, APPLY:

• Bachelor's Degree in Operations, Business, Finance, Product Development or related field
• Certifications: SAFe POPM (preferred) or similar Product Owner / Product Manager certification
• 5-7 years of applicable experience
• The ideal incumbent will be strategic, innovative, and creative with a solid analytic foundation.
• In-depth understanding and development of back-office operational processes with a strong preference for financial services and/or trading environments
• Experience with robotic process automation or related automation solutions
• Strategic, innovative, and creative thinking with a solid analytical foundation, able to lead complex re-engineering and process optimization efforts
• Strong leadership skills to gain credibility, garner respect, and guide the creation of self-organizing teams
• Professional assertiveness with business partners to address opposing viewpoints while adhering to Agile concepts and principles
• Working knowledge of Agile practices such as iterative development, incremental delivery, backlog management, burn down metrics, velocity and task definition, preferably in a SAFe-based environment
• Strong communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills to connect and engage with the team across business and technical roles, facilitate discussions, advocate for the team, negotiate with the business, mentor team members, and resolve conflicts
• Ability to work with minimal direction, and flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities and schedules
• Ability to handle multiple issues simultaneously and manage stressful situations
• Strong knowledge of technical concepts and architectural principles to drive scalable solutions

MILLENNIUM TRUST COMPANY is a rapidly growing, leading financial services company offering specialized retirement and institutional services and recently acquired PayFlex, a consumer directed benefits provider, to create a personalized, holistic approach to financial wellness. To that end, we provide a diversified multi-product business with a holistic focus on financial wellness. Millennium Trust has experienced year-to-year double digit growth and prides itself on its strong, progressive culture.
We have been recognized for our tremendous growth on lists, such as Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000, as well as our dedication to our customer's wellbeing receiving the 2021 Gallagher Best-In-Class Employer and the 2020 Greater Oak Brook Chamber of Commerce Exceptional Service Award.