Product Owner

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

Julius Baer has embarked on an ambitious digital transformation initiative to bring our digital client experience to the next level. The initiative encompasses our private banking and intermediaries’ businesses globally. We are growing our team and are looking for individuals who want to actively shape the digital future of Julius Baer, the international reference in Private Banking. We offer you an environment and colleagues who motivate, challenge, and help you advance and the opportunity to work on digital products and services that will make a difference for our clients.

This role is located in Zürich but requires frequent interactions with colleagues in Monaco and Luxemburg as well as Singapore and Hong Kong.

**YOUR CHALLENGE**:
**Project Scoping**
- Partner with business leads to identify needs for the Credit domain
- Focus on customer value and continuously drive product improvements and roadmap
- Facilitate timeline and budget estimates; facilitate in preparation of business case
- Set up project governance and project team

**Project Delivery**
- Lead the Credit product delivery as senior change manager / product owner from the business perspective
- Ensure solutions are strategic whenever possible with an eye on future macro-developments
- Drive coordination of key initiatives to enable consistency in the product roadmap
- Establish project plan, identify key milestones, critical path and dependencies
- Examine project progress and maintain project plan
- Identify, track and resolve risks and issues that may arise during the lifecycle of the project; proactively propose mitigating actions
- Ensures that all deliverables are provided on-time and on-quality by institutionalizing appropriate quality checks
- Coordinate preparation and execution of User Acceptance Testing and User sign-off
- Issue regular & accurate project status reports and institute progress meetings to keep stakeholders informed

**Change Management and Communications**
- Drive transformation by running or supporting the implementation, communication and training
- Work with key stakeholders to ensure operational readiness of business after project go-live

**Regulatory Responsibilities, Risk Management**
- Collaborate with legal & compliance teams to assess regulatory considerations of Credit solutions

**YOUR PROFILE**:
**Professional and Technical**
- Experience with Temenos (T24) AA Model and in working within Credit Domain
- Minimum 8-10 years of experience in private banking
- +5 years’ experience with agile delivery approaches (e.g. Scrum, SAFe), ideally working experience as a product owner or similar role
- Through understanding of Credit value chain and good understanding of core processes, as well as regulations related to Credit
- Demonstrated capability for problem solving, decision making, sound judgement assertiveness and adequate risk management

**Personal and Social**
- Strong conceptual skills, solution oriented, big picture thinking
- Proven ability to manage large cross-functional project teams and proven ability to interact with functional management at all levels
- Understanding of broad range of technologies and keeps up to date with market and technology trends
- Ability to drive and demonstrate strong end-product orientation
- Business fluent in written and spoken English, spoken German is beneficial
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills