Product Owner Data and Analysis

Project overview

NOTE: This assignment is not available for direct freelance deployment. Deployment is only possible through a secondment agency/supplier or via a payroll/employment contract. The activities are carried out under the leadership and supervision of a public executive organization, which is why independent deployment is not permitted. Offering suppliers must be able to be included in the chain. For this, WAADI registration and a G-account are required.

Candidates who wish to participate as self-employed individuals can only be proposed when they are deployed through an authorized secondment agency or employment contract.

Note: Hybrid - 50/50 working from home and on location. MS Teams is used for meetings and digital encounters. When physical presence is required, it mainly takes place at the aforementioned municipal location.

You are the connecting link between the organization, users, and the Data & Analysis team, ensuring that available capacity is deployed on the topics that deliver the most value and that it is clear which results will be realized and when.

Your role

As Product Owner Data & Analysis, you are responsible for directing and realizing data and information products that contribute to the organization's objectives. You form the connecting link between the organization, users, and the Data & Analysis team. You ensure that available capacity is deployed on the topics that deliver the most value and that it is clear which results will be realized and when.

Your activities include:

The Product Owner works result-oriented: not the amount of work completed is central, but the value delivered to the organization through data and analysis.

• Translating organizational goals into concrete data and analysis products. You gather needs from stakeholders and translate them into concrete products and results.
• Developing and managing the product vision and roadmap. Together with stakeholders, you determine the desired development of data and analysis products and translate this into a realistic roadmap.
• Prioritizing the product backlog. You weigh wishes, innovations, organizational tasks, maintenance activities, and available capacity against each other and determine priorities based on this. You also ensure that the backlog is well managed.
• Directing daily product development. You formulate clear assignments and acceptance criteria for the data and analysis team and monitor the progress, coherence, and quality of realization.
• Connecting business and data & analysis. You ensure that user needs and organizational objectives are well understood by the team and that technical possibilities and limitations are understandably translated to clients and stakeholders.
• Organizing collaboration and decision-making. You bring together the right stakeholders, make dependencies visible, and ensure that decisions about scope, priorities, and solution directions are made in a timely manner.
• Monitoring coherence in the data chain. You collaborate with advisors, data brokers, architecture, information provision, and other product teams to ensure that data is available timely, reliably, and usable.
• Steering on value and usage. You monitor whether realized data and analysis products are actually used and contribute to the intended goals. Based on user feedback and available insights, you adjust where necessary. To this end, you maintain the product catalog together with the advisors.
• Monitoring quality, continuity, and manageability. You pay attention to aspects such as data quality, information security, privacy, availability, performance, and management throughout the entire product lifecycle.
• Identifying and utilizing new opportunities. You follow developments in the field of data, analytics, and AI and investigate with the organization how these developments can contribute to better service delivery, more efficient execution, and better decision-making.
• Reporting on progress and results. You make visible which results have been achieved, which activities are planned, which risks and dependencies exist, and where decision-making or adjustments are needed. You work closely with data analysts, BI specialists, DWH developers, data and analysis advisors, architects, information professionals, and representatives from the business. You create the conditions under which the Data & Analysis team can work independently and ensure focus on the agreed product goals.

Requirements

As Product Owner Data & Analysis, you possess a combination of strategic insight, organizational sensitivity, and the ability to achieve concrete results. You are able to connect different interests and bring focus and priority to an environment where the demand for data and analysis is greater than the available capacity. You can separate the essential from the non-essential and translate organizational objectives into concrete data and information products. You are confident and can connect and communicate well in a challenging stakeholder field. You are customer-oriented and possess good communication skills.

To succeed as a Product Owner Data & Analysis, you can lead a team of data specialists and are decisive. You have the ambition to continuously improve and collaborate with your colleagues. Furthermore, you have a "can do" mentality and are flexible and independent. Finally, you are communicatively skilled in the Dutch language, both spoken and written.

Wishes

The department

You will be part of the staff department Sociaal Digitaal: the IT governance organization for the Work & Income cluster. Sociaal Digitaal is responsible for the management and further development of information provision for the Participation Law+.

The team you will join is the Data & Analysis team. A team of 25 specialists focused on developing and managing data and information products for steering and reporting information. It is a team that pays attention to achieving our mission, the personal development of employees, as well as space for relaxation and fun. The Data & Analysis team consists of two scrum teams. The Product Owner Data & Analysis is the product owner of one of these two scrum teams and works with the product owner of the other scrum team to develop a joint overarching product vision and roadmap.

• You have a completed university education (WO);
• You have at least 5 years of work experience in the data analysis field with stakeholder management at a senior management level, gained in the last 8 years;
• You have at least 5 years of work experience as a Product Owner or Advisor in the data analysis field at an organization with more than 1000 employees, gained in the last 8 years;
• You have at least 5 years of work experience as a functional manager and/or coach in the data analysis field, gained in the last 8 years;
• You have completed at least 3 projects and/or assignments in the data and analysis field.
• You have a completed university education (WO) in the direction of Beta, public administration, or social sciences;
• You have work experience with developing a vision and roadmap in the data and analysis field;
• You have knowledge of building products in Databricks on Azure and PowerBI;
• You have knowledge of building and developing data science issues;
• You have knowledge of implementing a genAI use-case;
• You have work experience with organizational adoption of AI.

Project details

• Start: 2026-11-01T23:00:00
• Location: Rotterdam Zuid-Holland, NL
• Languages: Dutch