Product Owner, Pensions Data – Omers

Title of the Job: Product Owner, Pensions Data

Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description: Choose a workplace that empowers your impact.Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and experience. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.We are a purpose-driven, dynamic and sustainable pension plan. An industry leading global investor with teams in Toronto to London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe. We embody the values of our 600,000+ members, placing their best interests at the heart of everything we do.Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, support the communities we live and work.Don’t just work anywhere — come build tomorrow together with us.Know someone at OMERS or Oxford Properties? Great! If you’re referred, have them submit your name through Workday first. Then, watch for a unique link in your email to apply.We are looking for a highly motivated Product Owner to join our Pensions Data Team in Toronto. You will be part of growing a data-driven product development team striving to transform OMERS employees, members, employers and stakeholders’ experiences through the deployment of high-quality data products and visualizations. We are striving to provide information and actionable insights to improve experiences for members, stakeholders, employers and OMERS teams.The Pensions Data Team is an exciting team focused on providing real value through high-quality information and actionable data-driven insights. We encourage innovation and empower open thinking for all our team members. We’re excited for the opportunity to have highly driven and impactful talent join our team!As a member of this team, you will be responsible for:Maximize the product value of analytics and reporting through leveraging and understanding user feedback, stakeholder opportunities and the technology landscapeEngaging with stakeholders and subject matter experts to gather and refine feature requirementsClearly expressing requirements through documentation of user stories and epicsPlan and prioritize the product backlog items to best achieve goalsManage product design, dependencies and trade-offs and ability to resolve cross-team interdependenciesEnsure work is focused to deliver maximum valueClear and comprehensive communication with the agile team regarding feature work, goals and deliverablesDrive iteration and release plans, with a focused attention to work progress in sprint and to addressing issues during sprintsCommunicate and promote product release plans, and set expectations for the delivery of new features and functionalityParticipate in close collaboration with Product Managers, Agile Development Leads, Designers, DevOps, QAs, Technical Leads and our Technical Development Squads in order to guide development of our product visionMaintaining a knowledge of agile methodologies, disciplines, practices and techniquesTo succeed in this role:You are a self-starter who uses sharp analytical and innovative problem-solving skills to recommend business solutions to drive results and solve problemsYou have passion for working with people, empathy and a knack for building great relationships with your colleaguesYou have outstanding communication, with the ability to effectively interpret ideas and information, and present to diverse audiencesYou are adaptable to change, have the ability to manage multiple concurrent demands and make effective judgments as to prioritiesExperience in data analytics and reporting, data warehousing and/or business intelligence3+ years of experience as Product Owner or Business Analyst in an Agile (Scrum) environment and/or Actuarial Sciences, Financial Services and Banking, or PensionsExperience using JIRA or other user story and task management toolExperience using Microsoft Power BI or similar data visualization softwareExperience in SQL and ExcelWe believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. In delivering on our pension promise, keeping us connected to our work and each other, our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come in to the office 1 day per week.As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

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