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Product Owner

Role overview

Summary

The Product Owner role focuses on collaborating with business stakeholders, IT teams, and vendors to shape requirements and improve procurement processes. You will work closely with the Product Manager to prioritize the backlog and support implementation activities, ensuring alignment with various business requirements.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or in a similar role.
  • Proven capability to gather, structure, and validate business requirements and translate them into user stories, process flows, and functional specifications.
  • Background in working closely with Product Managers, business stakeholders, delivery teams, and external vendors.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with senior leadership.
  • Excellent command of written and spoken English (B2+ level).

Responsibilities

  • Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria
  • Maintain thorough documentation of requirements, process decisions, controls, and dependencies
  • Collaborate with the Product Manager on backlog refinement and prioritization based on business value, risk, and dependencies
  • Support implementation activities, including workflow design, integration alignment, testing, go-live readiness, and adoption

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Analytical Skills

About the company

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EPAM Systems

  • IT Services & Consulting
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has used its software engineering expertise to become a leading global provider of digital engineering, cloud and AI-enabled transformation services, and a leading business and experience consulting partner for global enterprises and ambitious startups. We address our clients’ transformation challenges by fusing EPAM Continuum’s integrated strategy, experience and technology consulting with our 30+ years of engineering execution to speed our clients’ time to market and drive greater value from their innovations and digital investments. We make GenAI real with our AI LLM orchestration, testing and engineering solutions, EPAM DIAL, EPAM EliteA™ and EPAM AI/RUN™, respectively. We deliver globally, but engage locally with our expert teams of consultants, architects, designers and engineers, making the future real for our clients, our partners and our people around the world. We believe the right solutions are the ones that improve people’s lives and fuel competitive advantage for our clients across diverse industries. Our thinking comes to life in the experiences, products and platforms we design and bring to market. Added to the S&P 500 and the Forbes Global 2000 in 2021 and recognized by Glassdoor and Newsweek as a Top 100 Best Workplace, our multidisciplinary teams serve customers across six continents. We are proud to be among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services in the Fortune 1000 and to be recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScapes for Worldwide Experience Build Services, Worldwide Experience Design Services and Worldwide Software Engineering Services. Learn more at www.epam.com.

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Job description

We are seeking a Product Owner who thrives at the intersection of business, technology, and product delivery. In this role, you will collaborate with business stakeholders, IT teams, vendors, and the Product Manager to shape requirements, improve processes, and support the implementation of solutions that make procurement simpler, smarter, and more effective. Responsibilities Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria Maintain thorough documentation of requirements, process decisions, controls, and dependencies Collaborate with the Product Manager on backlog refinement and prioritization based on business value, risk, and dependencies Support implementation activities, including workflow design, integration alignment, testing, go-live readiness, and adoption Drive SAP MDG readiness by identifying impacts on vendor master data, processes, and integrations, ensuring solutions align with procurement, legal, risk, compliance, and finance requirements Facilitate workshops with business stakeholders, IT teams, and vendors to capture needs, pain points, and improvement opportunities Act as the key link between business stakeholders, product teams, engineering teams, and external vendors, providing clear updates and recommendations to management and steering committees Monitor process and system performance, identifying opportunities for standardization, automation, compliance improvement, and enhanced user experience Requirements 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or in a similar role Proven capability to gather, structure, and validate business requirements and translate them into user stories, process flows, and functional specifications Background in working closely with Product Managers, business stakeholders, delivery teams, and external vendors Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with senior leadership Expertise in process mapping, business process management, and continuous improvement Analytical skills with the ability to connect business needs, systems, data, controls, and outcomes Familiarity with Agile delivery, including backlog refinement, testing, and release support Excellent command of written and spoken English (B2+ level)

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