Product Owner (Core Business Transformation Projec

Michigan Farm Bureau is seeking a Product Owner based in Lansing, MI (onsite) to support a core business transformation effort. In this role, you will help ensure the success of a product, project, or process by assessing current and future business workflows, aligning deliverables for consistency, and collaborating closely with development teams and stakeholders to meet user and customer needs.

Reporting with an internal consultancy mindset, you will analyze business objectives and processes, identify options to improve business systems, and connect business requirements to the use of improved processes and information technology.

What you’ll do

• Drive organizational performance and improvements by analyzing existing or ideal organizational structures, current and future business processes, and workflow needs.
• Assess and help create effective business models, including their integration with technology, while driving consistency across all deliverables.
• Own the success of the product, project, or process.
• Apply critical thinking to make decisions and provide recommendations.
• Understand user and customer needs and business goals, then collaborate with development teams and stakeholders to deliver outcomes that meet those needs.
• Act as an internal consultant to investigate business objectives, workflows, and processes, identify opportunities for improving business systems, and bridge business needs with improved business processes and information technology.
• Support elicitation, documentation, and facilitation of requirements using methods such as interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and task and workflow analysis.
• Review market, competitive, and industry research along with data analysis to create fact-based recommendations for product and process standardization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in insurance, business, technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience with Microsoft Office Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Proven negotiation and facilitation skills.
• Public speaking and presentation skills.
• Willingness to pursue continuing job-related training and education, including self-development assessments.

Technologies

• Microsoft Office Excel
• Microsoft Office Word
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint

Benefits

• Full benefit package including medical, dental, vision, and 401K

Preferred qualifications

• Minimum five years insurance background in a related field.
• Strong background in project methodology, project management, business analysis, testing, and project governance.
• Two to five years management experience.
• Designations in IIA, CPCU, CBAP, or equivalent designations.