PRODUCT OWNER

Product Owner is responsible for defining the requirements for a specific functional domain and/or a specific country / region / business unit of The Adecco Group Global Front Office product, acting as the primary point of contact between stakeholders and the development team. This role involves prioritizing the product backlog, ensuring that features and enhancements align with business goals and customer needs and that the product remains relevant, sustainable, compelling and competitive for the customers it serves. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, providing clear guidance and feedback throughout the development process to ensure successful product delivery and maximization of value.

Act as the link between Business product owner and delivery team

• Take part of business requirement session and ensure requirement are documented with the right level of details.
• Participate actively on the solution roadmap definition.
• Work with the delivery team and ensure the requirements are well understood.
• Support the delivery team during the detailed design and validate their documentation.
• Ensure the right presence during Business demo or country demo when expected.
• Support and / or participate to the business Acceptance test of the project.

Ensure that the IT and business project managers are supported during rollout phases. This includes:

• Onboarding rollout teams, both global and local, about the functional aspect of Front Office solutions
• Delivering demos of the solutions or delegate demos to fellow product owners in case a particular expertise is needed
• Driving the requirements gathering: organising functional workshops with rollout team, especially business representatives, collecting requirements, understanding / documenting processes, challenging requirements and if necessary proposing alternatives, detailing requirements and acceptance criteria so that they can be estimated, entering requirements into backlog management solution (DevOps)
• Actively participating in the rollout analysis by detailing the requirements so that the delivery team can design the appropriate implementation
• Understanding and validating proposed design from the delivery team, challenging them and asking for alternatives if needed, from a functional and end-user perspective
• Explaining design to project team, especially business to get their buy in
• Supporting the project team in the BAT and early live support period
• Supporting the project during the Train the Trainer sessions
• Ensuring that proper functional knowledge about the solution is transitioned to local business and ITD so that they can run the solution 

Maintain functional knowledge on country / Business Units (BU) implementation

• Stay in touch frequently with rolled out countries & BUs
• Collect, challenge and review design of country / BU requirements closely with the delivery team
• Participate to country / BU FO steerco to understand needs and promote FO solutions

Participate to the solutions roadmap

• Keep up-to-date knowledge about their functional domain of expertise
• Contribute to the innovation activities when appropriate
• Make suggestion of improvements to global Front Office solutions
• Participate with the Global Front Office Lead to the elaboration of the global Front Office solutions roadmap
• Drive the requirements gathering, as explained above
• Validate the proposed design
• Organise the BAT and propose sign off decision to FO Solutions Lead

Participate actively in the Product owners community

• Share knowledge with other product owners on their functional and/or domain of expertise
• Help identify potential requests that could be interesting across countries and could be proposed as enhancement of the core solution

• University Degree preferably in business or any comparable education
• Around 5 years’ experience as Product Owner
• CRM/Sales/Recruitment Business experience or good knowledge
• Experience with Salesforce welcomed
• Experience working in project mode
• Business consulting experience
• Experience in change management is an additional advantage
• Project Management skills will be considered a plus
• Knowledge of sales approaches is an advantage
• Strong team player
• Ability to build pro-active, co-operative working relationships with customers, peers and key stakeholders based on respect and teamwork
• Fluent English

It’s an exciting time to be part of our team. At the Adecco Group, our purpose – making the future work for everyone – inspires and connects us all. Through our three global business units (GBU) – Adecco, Akkodis and LHH - we deliver expertise in talent and technology, enabling organizations to succeed and people to thrive.

We’re proud to be a global thought-leader and care about doing the best job we can to ensure better futures for everyone. We do this by building our Future@Work strategy as a united team of 30,000+ colleagues with a collective spirit working in over 60 countries globally. We embody our core values: Courage, Collaboration, Customer at the Heart,  Inclusion, and Passion in everything we do.

Growth and Development

You will have the opportunity to grow across a variety of interesting jobs and careers over our extensive portfolio of global brands. We empower our colleagues to work in the smartest, most efficient ways, achieving total balance between their jobs and their lives. We offer world-class resources for upskilling and development, satisfying your curiosity while sharing skills, knowledge, and expertise to grow together. Here, you can be yourself, and we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you.

We believe that having an understanding of the hiring process helps you to prepare, feel, and be, at your best. As a global, multi brand organization with multiple different roles, our application process can vary.

On our career site, you will find some of the key steps you can expect to guide you along the way.

Inclusion

We believe in talent, not labels. We focus on the diverse and unique skills our people bring. Our culture of belonging and purpose ensures everyone can thrive and feel engaged. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to equity, equal opportunity, inclusion, and diversity.

Interview Process

Our interview process includes an initial phone screening, followed by a virtual round of interviews with Hiring Manager, HR team and senior leaders. This process helps us understand your fit within our team and allows you to ask questions about the role and our company. If you are a visionary leader with a passion for learning and development, we invite you to join us in making the future work for everyone.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any additional accommodations or support due to a disability or other special circumstances, please let us know by contacting us. We will work with you to ensure your needs are met throughout the hiring process.

Posting date: 03-12-2025