Product Owner, Grc

**Product Owner, GRC (Governance, Risks, Compliance)**
- KONE Technology and Innovation (KTI) is where the magic happens at KONE. It's where we combine the physical world - escalators and elevators - with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to shape the future of the industry with new technologies and sustainable innovations. _
- KONE IT is part of the KONE Technology and Innovation (KTI) unit with the mission to power KONE with sustainable information flow. KONE IT also supports KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing digital cloud-based IT services, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity, business growth and technological disruption. _

Our Corporate Functions IT team is seeking a Product Owner for GRC (Governance, Risks & Compliance.

As the Product Owner you are responsible for ensuring the value from the global IT solutions in Governance, Risks & Compliance domain.

Product Owners collaborate with stakeholders and end users to understand their requirements, prioritize them, and translate them into IT solution development backlogs. Product Owners work with their agile teams and partners to execute the prioritized backlogs. They actively drive designing the functionality of the solutions and their features. By working closely with relevant experts and partners, they ensure smooth operations and services within the domain.

The position is based in Pune, India and will report to the Product Manager, GRC & People Technology.

If you're a driven, sociable professional who thrives on translating vision into action, we invite you to apply

**In this role you get to**
- Set up the overall product performance KPIs and targets including for operations and IT activities related to benefit realization. Responsible for regularly following the KPIs and communicating with key stakeholders.
- Collect and clarify the needs of stakeholders and end users and translate them into backlogs. In this process, take responsibility for solution functional and/or technical designs, where applicable.
- Prioritize the product backlogs, plan their execution, ensure successful execution of the plans together with relevant IT team(s) and partners.
- Ensure that the product operations and performance are as planned and take timely corrective action when needed. Follow and address technical debt in the product to ensure continued and sustained operations.
- Follow the product’s business value, utilization level and cost and ensure that solutions within the product are accordingly adjusted.
- Provide necessary guidelines and instructions for stakeholders to use the solutions within the product and ensure that the instructions are followed.
- Be responsible for the financial aspects of the product
- Guide agile team members when needed on functional and/or technical matters. Collaborate with other agile teams to plan the dependencies and joint development.
- Manage collaboration with and governance of technology
- and service partners.

**To be successful in this role**you need:

- to be a senior (8+ years of experience) IT professional with practical knowledge and experience in Governance, Risks and Compliance domain processes and solutions.
- leadership skills to ensure smooth collaboration and efficiency when working with stakeholders, dependent team(s) and partners
- analytical and conceptual thinking, innovativeness and ability to think big
- experience in working in a multicultural, global (matrix) organization
- excellent communication, presentation and documentation skills in English

We are looking for a collaborative and proactive team player who approaches situations with an open mind, adapts quickly in a changing and agile environment and can create structure, clarity and results in a transparent way. Strong communication and interpersonal skills in English are essential for building relationships with stakeholders and peers. You naturally embrace and promote cultural diversity and inclusion within your team and organization.

**What do you get in return?**
- Possibility to have an impact on Governance, Risks & Compliance product environment
- Opportunity to make a difference on designing more automated, improved E2E solutions and IT processes
- International and professional environment
- Attractive package of benefits and bonus scheme
- Social and sport events on regular basis
- Great place to work
- Informal culture and friendly colleagues
- KONE trainings in various areas
- Promotion on performance/competence

We can offer strong support in your personal growth and global opportunities for future career development at KONE. We believe in inspiring, engaging and developing our people.
- At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us a