Product Manager - Low Code (Power Platform)

About the role

We are looking to appoint a Product Manager for our Low Code Power platform(s) to join our IT Technology Team in Belgium. In this role, you’ll will be focusing to help our business users to accelerate, transform and adopt Low Code solutions. You will be working with our business users to help them envision, plan and design low code solutions. You will also be involved in all the phases of a project, starting from an idea to deliver the end product as per the governance defined for the platforms.
Key responsibilities specific to the role:
- Demonstrated experience with the Product Ownership and coordination with third-party Service Providers
- Strong understanding of Power Platform (Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent, Power Pages etc.) and it's integration with other applications (Microsoft or third party)
- Responsible for the setup of governance, best practices and guardrails around the low code platforms
- Drive the awareness and adoption journey of Low Code solutions in Etex and help to build the Citizen Developers community
- Able to define and maintain the product roadmap
- Manage the approved budget for Low Code solutions and serve as point of escalation in case of any issue
- Serve as a lead to help and guide our business users to effectively use the Microsoft Power Platform as per the defined governance and best practices
- SPOC (Single Point of Contact) for our stakeholders and delivery team throughout all project phases, effectively manage associated issues & risks and ensure on-time & on-budget implementation delivery
- Ability to challenge business requests and translate them into technical solutions
- Able to work in an agile environment and provide technical leadership to the team (internal or external) throughout all phases of project
 

About you

The ideal candidate should have the following experience,knowledge and competences:

- A master’s degree with 3 to 8 years of working experience, including management.
- Certification/license qualification in Power Platform, SharePoint, Scrum, Azure Cloud and MS Office 365
- Mendix 
- Required languages are English proficiency with knowledge of French and Dutch
- Provides others with a clear direction.  Sets appropriate standards of behaviour.  Delegates work appropriately and fairly.  Motivates and empowers others.  Provides staff with development opportunities and coaching.  Recruits staff of a high calibre and builds diverse inclusive teams. Encourages organisational and individual responsibility towards the community and environment.
- Acts as a role model and in accordance with the Etex Leadership Principles and values.
- Keeps up to date with competitor information and market trends. Identifies business opportunities for the organisation. Demonstrates financial awareness. Controls costs and thinks in terms of profit, loss and added value.
- Works productively in a high-pressured environment. Deals with ambiguity, making positive use of opportunities it presents. Keeps emotions under control during difficult situations. Maintains a positive outlook at work. Adapts to changing circumstances. Accepts new ideas and change initiatives. Adapts personal style to suit different people or situations.
- Demonstrates appropriate physical co-ordination and endurance, manual skill, spatial awareness and dexterity required of the role. 
- An effective active listener. Speaks clearly and fluently, expresses opinions, information, and key points of an argument clearly and as appropriate for the audience. Makes presentations and undertakes public speaking with skill and confidence. Responds quickly to the needs of an audience and to their reactions and feedback. Writes clearly, succinctly, and correctly. 
- A strong communicator. Gains clear agreement and commitment from others by persuading, convincing and negotiations. Empathetic and emotionally intelligent.