at UL, LLC in Northbrook, Illinois, United States
Job Description
The Product Owner contributes to the implementation and maintenance of moderately complex business systems. Supports IT leadership with planning IT projects, ensuring goals and objectives are met within an arranged time frame. Manages projects including the formulation and definition of systems scope based on user needs, a thorough understanding of the business systems, and industry. Ensures solutions meet or exceed customer expectations.
+ Supports IT leadership with planning IT projects, ensuring goals and objectives are met within an arranged time frame.
+ Interfaces with system support and logs technical assistance requests as needed. Works with system support to resolve questions, problems, and enhancement requests.
+ Manages projects including the formulation and definition of systems scope based on user needs, a thorough understanding of the business systems, and industry.
+ Supports other departments, divisions, and organizations as a liaison to IT.
+ Contributes to system development through the analysis of business requirements, business design, business development, client training, data conversion, testing and maintenance.
+ Prepares charts, diagrams, and recommendations for business solutions while ensuring conformity with other business areas.
+ Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline plus generally four years of directly related experience.
+ Demonstrated success in defining and launching products that meet and exceed business objectives
+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills
+ Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
+ Strong project management skills with the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads to support continuous, meaningful delivery
+ Certified Agile or Scrum product management is preferred
What you’ll experience working at UL:
+ Mission: For UL, corporate and social responsibility isn’t new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 129 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.
+ People: Ask any UL employee what they love most about working here, and you’ll almost always hear, “the people.” Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL. We’re able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
+ Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers’ create. We’re inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
+ Grow & achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.
+ Total Rewards: All employees at UL are eligible for bonus compensation. UL offers a generous 401k matching structure of up to 5% of eligible pay. Additionally, we invest an additional 4% into your retirement saving fund after your first year of continuous employment. We provide Healthcare Reimbursement Accounts and Health Savings Accounts that UL contributes to twice per year! Depending on your role, you can work with your manager on flexible working arrangements. We also provide employees with paid time off including vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer time off.
Learn More:
Working at UL is an exciting journey that twists and turns daily. We thrive in the twists and revel in the turns. This is our every day. This is our normal. Curious? To learn more about us and the work we do, visit UL.com.#LI-SG2
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions transforms safety, security, and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 100 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth.
The UL Certification Marks serve as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflect an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission.
We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future.
From the adoption of electrification to the enablement of 5G and new mobility, we collectively look toward new frontiers, working for a safer world.? Our science is your advantage.
Mission: Working for a safer world
UL LLC has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To assure full implementation of this equal employment policy, we will take steps to assure that:
Persons are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, color, age, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, religion, creed, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, ancestry, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy, marital or familial status, or any other protected category under applicable law.
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