Lead, Capability

Job Description

As a capability member responsible for getting needs, socializing, and discussing with stakeholders, your role is crucial in bridging the gap between business needs and technical implementation. By engaging with stakeholders, you aim to deeply understand their concerns and needs, effectively translating them into clear and actionable requirements.

You will have to delve deeper into the underlying needs and context, uncovering crucial insights that may not be immediately apparent. Through thoughtful questioning and critical thinking, the capability team can ensure that the requirements capture the true essence of the stakeholders' needs and align with the broader organizational context, ultimately leading to more effective and valuable solutions.

Your expertise in both business processes and technical capabilities allows you to facilitate discussions, ask the right questions, and extract essential details. By doing so, you ensure that the requirements communicated to the product team are comprehensive, well-defined, and aligned with the overarching business objectives. Ultimately, your efforts contribute to the successful implementation of solutions that truly address stakeholder needs and drive business value.

Capability team is in close collaboration with Stakeholders, Architects, Product owners and product manager.

Key responsibilities:

• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs, gather feedback, and ensure that the capability delivers value to the organization.
• Rank new requests (funnel): Ensure new entries are aligned with our strategy, and at good level.
• Business requirement refinement (pre-study): Refine requirement and assess impact on the platform.
• Specify transversal requests: Lead capabilities impacting multiple applications by framing specification with product owners and then follow its implementation until the delivery.
• Risk Management: Identifying potential risks and challenges related to the capability and developing mitigation strategies to address them.
• Process Improvement: Driving continuous improvement initiatives to optimize processes, workflows, and methodologies within the capability.
• Development validation: Contribute to test during UATs to ensure it match with customer needs and ensure smooth transitions from development to deployment / change.
  
  

Qualifications

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
• Change management orientation.
• Strong English (Written and Spoken)
• Ability to cooperate and work in multicultural environment.
• Listening, negotiation, leadership, decision making
• Multi-tasking ability – handling multiple topics in parallel
• Organized and structured
• Proactive, flexible, result-driven, with a “can do” attitude, attention to detail, problem-solving.
• Flexibility to work with teams in different time zones in a “virtual” mode.
  
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience in leading business analysis and functional specification design in a complex project environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities to effectively engage with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Proficiency in utilizing business analysis tools, methodologies, and best practices.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment while managing multiple priorities.
  
  

About Our Team

• Schneider Electric, manages portfolios to drive innovation, develop new products, and stay competitive in the market. By overseeing a diverse portfolio of projects, the company can explore new technologies, address customer needs, and anticipate market trends. This structured approach enables Schneider Electric to allocate resources effectively, mitigate risks, and ensure that R&D efforts align with the company's strategic goals. Ultimately, managing an R&D portfolio helps Schneider Electric to deliver cutting-edge solutions, enhance sustainability, and maintain its position as a leader in the industry.
• In this context EOLE Platform, belonging to digital engineering teams is providing tools supporting Digital, R&D and financial processes aiming to manage portfolios, projects and resources.
• EOLE Platform is composed of a set of 8 tools that manage portfolios, business cases, data referential, everything consolidated through operational and strategic dashboards.
  
  

About Us

Schneider Electric™ creates connected technologies that reshape industries, transform cities and enrich lives. Our 144,000 employees thrive in more than 100 countries. From the simplest of switches to complex operational systems, our technology, software and services improve the way our customers manage and automate their operations. Help us deliver solutions that ensure Life Is On everywhere, for everyone and at every moment: https://youtu.be/NlLJMv1Y7Hk.

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We seek out and reward people for putting the customer first, being disruptive to the status quo, embracing different perspectives, continuously learning, and acting like owners. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate. We welcome people as they are, creating an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity are seen as a real value for the company. We’re looking for people with a passion for success — on the job and beyond. See what our people have to say about working for Schneider Electric: https://youtu.be/6D2Av1uUrzY

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Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best.

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Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct

Schedule: Full-time

Req: 0095H8