Product Owner Grid Development

Function

Elia Group is facing one of its biggest challenges: enabling the energy transition and supporting the large-scale electrification of society while ensuring a reliable, affordable and sustainable electricity system. Within Grid Development, this requires strong digital, data and analytical capabilities to support grid planning and long-term investment decisions.

The Scenarios & Grid Studies Solutions (SGS) product line provides the digital capabilities supporting the end-to-end Grid Development process, from scenarios and grid studies to needs identification, planning storylines and investment decision-making.

Within SGS, the Needs & Storyline Management (NSM) Product Team focuses on the digital capabilities required to manage system and grid needs, develop planning storylines and support the Reference Grid. This includes connecting identified needs with grid study results, reinforcement options and infrastructure projects, while ensuring an effective interface between Grid Development and Grid Solutions.

The Product Owner plays a key interface role between the business and the Product Team. Together with Grid Development experts and other business stakeholders, the PO identifies and understands the problems to solve, challenges underlying needs and clarifies the expected business outcomes. Based on these outcomes, the PO leads the Product Team, including IT developers (internal and external), business analyst, testers to define and develop the most appropriate digital solutions.

The Product Owner translates this understanding into a clear product vision, roadmap and prioritized backlog, ensuring that the team focuses on solutions delivering the highest value. The PO remains accountable for product priorities and outcomes throughout the full product lifecycle, from discovery and development to adoption and continuous improvement.

For the Needs & Storyline Management Product Team, we are looking for a Product Owner.

Your Profile

• Engineering profile with master level or equivalent by experience
• Proven experience as Product Owner, Product Manager or similar role in an Agile, digital or product-oriented environment.
• Strong understanding of the energy sector and TSO Grid Development context, in particular grid needs identification, grid reinforcement planning, long-term storylines, investment decision-making and the regulatory framework. Candidates from other regulated, infrastructure or asset-intensive environments who can build that depth quickly are also encouraged to apply.
• Experience with infrastructure needs management tools decision-support tooling, data governance or productization of business-critical tools is a strong asset. Familiarity with multi-scenario, risk-based or cost-benefit (TOTEX) decision methods is a strong plus.
• Able to translate expert user needs into clear product outcomes, backlog priorities and acceptance criteria, while making pragmatic trade-offs between value, feasibility, risk and delivery constraints, supported by qualitative and quantitative evidence.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-alignment skills, with credibility to guide a multidisciplinary team without hierarchical authority.
• Fluent in English and able to communicate professionally in Dutch and/or French.
• Collaborative, improvement-oriented mindset, fostering transparency, experimentation, continuous learning and leadership behaviors.

Offer

• Salary: a competitive salary package, allowance for representation expenses, year-end bonus, double vacation pay, meal vouchers (€10 per working day), eco-vouchers, sport & culture vouchers, bonuses based on individual and group results.
• Insurance: group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, ambulant care insurance for the whole family and also personal accident insurance.
• Vacation: You will be entitled to 20 vacation days and 5 additional vacation days, 6 local days, 4 exempt days (after 1 year of employment) and up to 5 long-service days (1 day for every 3 years in employment).
• Social fund: Year-end vouchers, birth and marriage allowance. We will also cover part of the cost of glasses, a dental prosthesis or similar needs.
• Communication: you will be given an iPhone, a phone subscription (for work and private use) and a laptop with internet reimbursement.
• Discounts: you will enjoy a 30% discount on your gas and electricity bill.
• Mobility: we will offer you a company car and public transport or a mobility budget.
• Elia shares: Elia will give you the opportunity to subscribe to shares with a discount of 16.66% on the average share price.

Location

Quai Léon Monnoyer 3, 1000 Brussels

In practice, the role is based across both sites on an approximately 50/50 basis: Monnoyer, where the business team is located, and Boulevard de l’Empereur 20 1000 Brussels, where the IT development team is mainly located.

We also apply a hybrid working policy, allowing you to combine working from the office and from home.