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Senior Area Product Owner (f/m/d) - Master & Reference Data Management (part-/full-time)

We’re flexible! We’re happy to receive applications in English or German.

About the role:
Are you ready to steer the foundational "brain" of our enterprise’s data landscape?

We are looking for a visionary Senior Area Product Owner to lead and evolve our Master & Reference Data Management (MRDM) product. At our company, MRDM is far more than just an IT system - it is the single, canonical source of truth that defines our static business reality. It ensures that our core shared data - covering Products, Instruments/Contracts, Customers, Calendars, Markets, and Reference Data - is resilient, auditable, and seamlessly enforced across the global organization.

As we embark on a major migration to a cloud-native data architecture, MRDM will serve as a critical pillar of this transformation. Built on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and running 24/7, this is a high-visibility role where your leadership will directly impact the future of our enterprise data.

 

Your tasks:

  • Communicate with stakeholders and ensure product goals and timelines are met 
  • Pro-actively foster our ongoing agile transformation
  • Channel product roadmap and product features clearly to stakeholders to form consistent understanding of goals and maximize the value of delivery 
  • Manage the product backlog, making sure that backlogs are always visible, prioritized, and clear in structure and content. 
  • Translate business needs into clear backlog items and prioritize them to maximize product value 
  • Support and empower the delivery team by clarifying goals through clearly defined backlog items and fostering decision-making.  
  • Ensure product compliance 
  • Constantly engage, empower and steer decision making in the delivery team to ensure quality end to-end  
  • Monitor and improve product performances by further developing and analyzing KPIs and taking actions to address findings 

 

Your skills:

  • University degree or equivalent professional qualification or experience 
  • Experienced Leader: You have a proven track record as a Product Owner or Product Manager
  • Data Expertise: An understanding of data-driven applications and their real-world business use cases
  • Cloud-Savvy: Experience or strong familiarity with cloud environments, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP), is highly preferred.
  • Agile Champion: You thrive in highly collaborative environments and have an agile mindset and expertise
  • Regulatory Mindset: You understand the critical nature of compliance, auditability, and regulatory reporting in a 24/7 enterprise environment.
  • Identify and translate business opportunities – able to think ‘out of the box’ to identify opportunity and solve challenges 
  • Ability to meet challenging deadlines and deliver in a fast moving and change oriented environment 
  • Confident with strong communication, able to engage senior stakeholders 
  • Effective presentation skills essential – creating and delivery 
  • Very strong proficiency (negotiation level) in written and spoken English and German

 

Why join us?

  • Attractive salary package with many advantages such as childcare, meal allowance, job ticket, sports and leisure events
  • Flexible hybrid work concept and flexible working hours
  • Personal development through extensive training opportunities
  • A place in a dynamic and international team within EEX Group and Deutsche Börse Group
  • A long-term perspective in the constantly growing and evolving energy industry
  • Bespoke onboarding plan

Welcome
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Hello from EEX. As a leading commodity exchange in Europe, we develop, operate and connect the markets for global energy and commodity trading from Leipzig and 24 other worldwide offices. What’s the secret to our success? We are an expert team of dynamic individuals that drive forward exciting projects while sharing experiences, celebrating success and creating memories, together.


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