Product Owner Employee Benefits

About the Position

Product Owner Employee Benefits

• Location: Brussels – Fonsnylaan, Belgium
• Type: Permanent
• Department: Business & Transformation
• Salary: €4837 - €8982 per year

About the Role

As a Product Owner Employee Benefits (EB), you will play a key role in shaping and delivering the Employee Benefits strategy. You will represent the business for one or more key products and processes within the EB domain and act as the bridge between business and IT.

You will identify the needs of customers, distribution partners, and employees and translate these insights into digital solutions and process improvements that create value. You will drive the digitalization and innovation of our Employee Benefits offering and ensure that strategic objectives are translated into concrete initiatives, features, and improvements.

By combining customer focus, business insight, and digital expertise, you will contribute to an outstanding customer and partner experience while helping NN achieve its Employee Benefits ambitions.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the vision, roadmap, and priorities for one or more key products and processes within the Employee Benefits product(s)
• Identify opportunities to improve and digitalize customer, partner, and employee journeys
• Translate business needs, customer feedback, regulatory requirements, and strategic objectives into clear features, epics, and user stories
• Own and prioritize the product backlog based on business value and customer impact
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, Agile teams, architects, Domain Leads, and other Product Owners
• Work with product developers, operations teams, customer service teams, distribution partners, and portfolio managers to shape and deliver solutions
• Support Agile ceremonies such as PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives
• Validate delivered solutions and ensure they meet business requirements and expected customer outcomes
• Coordinate dependencies across teams and facilitate collaboration between all stakeholders involved
• Contribute actively to transformation initiatives and digitalization projects that support the Employee Benefits strategy
• Monitor market trends, customer expectations, and technological developments and translate them into improvement opportunities
• Ensure sufficient alignment with business stakeholders and manage expectations in a transparent way

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent through experience
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in product ownership, digital transformation, customer journey redesign, project management, or business transformation
• Strong affinity with financial services and preferably knowledge of the insurance sector and Employee Benefits
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, ideally within a SAFe framework
• Experience managing initiatives involving multiple stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to balance long-term vision with short-term delivery
• Customer-focused mindset and end-to-end thinking
• Autonomous, hands-on, and results-driven
• Fluent in Dutch, French, and English
• Enthusiastic team player who can bring people along in change

What We Offer

• A strategic and high-impact role within the Employee Benefits business
• Shape the future of our Employee Benefits offering and customer experience
• Close collaboration between business and IT in a SAFe Agile environment
• A dynamic environment where innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement are encouraged
• The possibility to contribute directly to NN's digital transformation agenda

Additional Benefits:

• Group and hospitalization insurance
• Meal and eco-vouchers
• 20 holiday days and 12 days recovery time
• Diverse range of training courses
• Comprehensive onboarding
• Workshops, coaching, and well-being services
• Opportunities for internal mobility
• Flexible home working policy

About the Company

NN in Belgium

We are part of NN Group, an international insurer and asset manager. Our group operates in 11 countries and is in good financial health. With more than 600 employees, we contribute to the financial peace of mind of more than 1.2 million customers in Belgium today. We work on their behalf through our partner network of banks and brokers, a network that continues to grow.

Our Values

At NN, we help people to take care of what matters most to them. We do this in a caring, transparent, and committed way based on our core values of ‘Care, Clear, Commit’.

Your Lifelong Happiness

No matter how different and unique people may be, everyone strives to live a long and happy life. To help make this happen, we guide our customers in focusing on what they really care about in life. And, as insurers, we assist them by providing the financial protection they need at the times that matter to them.

Diversity and Inclusion

At NN, we are committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are immensely proud that our enthusiastic ambassadors are eager to work on themes such as cultural diversity, gender equity, and young professionals. Seeking to connect, learning from each other, and inspiring one another is what we’re all about.

Voluntary Work

Your lifelong happiness: that’s what we strive to achieve for our customers, partners, society, and employees. As a company, we try to deliver on that promise through a range of different initiatives. With the ‘Happiness day’, our colleagues are able to volunteer for a good cause for up to two working days a year. This is how we increase our social impact together.

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