Product Owner Employee Benefits

About the Position

Product Owner Employee Benefits

Join NN as a Product Owner Employee Benefits, shaping digital solutions for group insurances and pension plans.

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

• Roles: Product Owner Senior
• Languages:
  • Dutch: Native or bilingual proficiency
  • French: Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English: Full professional proficiency
• Skills:
  • Analytics: Expert
  • Business transformation: Advanced
  • Project management: Intermediate
  • Digital Transformation: Advanced
  • Employee Benefits: Expert
  • Agile: Expert
  • Customer Journey redesign: Advanced
  • Stakeholder Management: Advanced
  • Communication: Expert

Nice to Have

• Proven experience in 2nd pillar / group insurances.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in product ownership, digital transformation, customer journey redesign, project management, or business transformation.
• Experience managing initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
• Customer-focused mindset and end-to-end thinking.
• Autonomous, hands-on, and results-driven.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance long-term vision with short-term delivery.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent through experience.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, ideally within a SAFe framework.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Enthusiastic team player who can bring people along in change.

We Offer

• A strategic and high-impact role within the Employee Benefits business.
• The opportunity to 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.

About the Company

We are looking for someone who combines strategic thinking with execution power. Someone who understands the needs of customers, employers, brokers, and employees, and who can translate these needs into digital solutions that create value and help realize NN’s Employee Benefits strategy.

You are passionate about innovation, digitalization, and customer experience, and you enjoy working with different stakeholders to turn ideas into tangible results.