Product Management Expert – Product Transformation

Budget: 650€-750€

Mission Overview

We are looking for an experienced
Product Management Expert
to support a large-scale product transformation within a complex, regulated organisation operating critical infrastructure at national and European level.

You will act as an
embedded, trusted advisor
, supporting the operationalisation and adoption of a
Product Operating Model (POM)
across multiple business units. The focus is on
hands-on implementation
, coaching, and day-to-day enablement of product leaders and teams—not on standalone training or theoretical frameworks.

You will be fully embedded within the transformation program, working side-by-side with internal teams to ensure product management best practices are applied, adopted, and sustained over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Operating Model Implementation
• Act as a sparring partner for senior management and business leadership on operational and strategic product topics.
• Diagnose gaps between current product practices and the target Product Operating Model.
• Lead pilot initiatives and organisational experiments to refine product structures, governance, and workflows.
• Adapt and update elements of the Product Operating Model based on real-world observations.
• Establish reporting cadences linking product execution to strategic objectives.
• Embed practical tools, frameworks, and rituals into existing organisational routines.
• Product Leadership Coaching & Enablement
• Shadow Product Leaders (Directors, Managers, Product Owners) and provide real-time feedback.
• Coach leaders on continuous product discovery, outcome-driven decision-making, and evidence-based prioritisation.
• Co-design decision-making frameworks to improve clarity, maturity, and speed.
• Support the translation of strategic objectives into actionable team-level goals.
• Strengthen team engagement, psychological safety, and accountability.
• Identify and resolve clarity gaps in roles and responsibilities across product and adjacent functions.
• Design and implement tailored capability development plans.
• Stakeholder Alignment
• Serve as a sounding board for senior managers and product leadership on key product decisions.
• Facilitate alignment workshops across business units, chapters, and transformation stakeholders.
• Identify systemic blockers to the transformation and escalate them when needed.
• Support resolution of organisational, structural, and governance challenges.
• Product Management Centre of Excellence
• Support the incubation of a Product Management Centre of Excellence.
• Formalise shared processes, methodologies, frameworks, and best practices.
• Contribute to the design and execution of product upskilling tracks (peer learning, workshops, seminars).
• Collaborate with internal learning, agile, and transformation teams to ensure long-term capability building.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Product Management Expertise: Strong mastery of discovery, delivery, prioritisation, and outcome-oriented product management.
• Transformation Experience: Proven track record in multi-quarter product transformations with measurable adoption results.
• Coaching & Influence: Ability to build trust with senior leaders, navigate resistance, and drive accountability.
• Facilitation & Communication: Ability to lead workshops that result in decisions, alignment, and action.
• Hands-On Mindset: Leads by example through shadowing, co-creation, and practical execution.
• Structured Thinking: Brings clarity to ambiguity and designs lightweight, sustainable frameworks.
• Regulated Environment Fluency: Comfortable operating in compliance-heavy, data-intensive, and engineering-driven contexts.

Experience & Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in product management, product leadership, or product organisation transformation.
• Strong experience embedding product discovery practices and shifting organisations from feature-driven to outcome-driven models.
• Proven experience working in regulated and data-intensive environments.
• Ability to operate effectively in evolving organisational structures.
• Fluent in English and French or Dutch (spoken and written).

Eligibility (Non-EU Candidates)

• Valid work permit allowing employment in Belgium.
• Valid Belgian residence permit.