11 months
01/01/2025 - 31/12/2025 Belgium
Requirements
Roles
  • Product Owner Senior
Languages
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Dutch Nice to have
  • French Nice to have
Skills
Description

Task title:  Data & Risk Change Manager

PO number: 4500023081

 

Location:

  • Brussels
  • Remote location possible (this over-rules the stipulation in the Framework contract that “The Freelancer undertakes to provide the Services at the premises of the Customer …”)

 

Task objectives:

The Data & Risk change manager’s goal is to implement changes in the Data & Risk area to implement as good as possible risk & fraud protection, to enable effective and efficient usage of data and to create meaningful value for customers and all stakeholders within the company.

The change manager manages the changes:

  • Backlog
  • Epics
  • User stories
  • Related success metrics

 

Task steps:

  • Turn the fraud strategy into roadmap with actionable tasks
  • Turn the risk strategy into roadmap with actionable tasks
  • Turn the data collection strategy into roadmap with actionable tasks
  • Make sure that changes are implemented in fast and effective way
  • Make sure that necessary integration with Credendo systems is implemented
  • Provide the management team with sufficient input to prioritise the implementation roadmaps
  • Construct and prioritise processes to ensure that the implementation team is clear on what to work on next

Task deliverables & milestones:

  • Implemented changes
  • Other metrics related to the performance of the development team
    In addition, the product owner should become ready to share this experience across the different ventures developed within AREA42: Acting as senior advisor for other venture teams, helping them to find the right resources, supporting technical choices, and facilitating operational implementation to accelerate the experiments incubation.

 

Desired experience:

Atypical profiles often work better for atypical jobs, and it is hard to predict the multiple winning skill combinations of the best candidates for the job. Moreover, we prefer team culture over individual performance. This being said, here are a few qualities we may be looking for:

  • 10+ years of experience with a balanced mix of product development / management and general project management skills.
  • A passion for innovation and start-ups with a good understanding of the corporate world.
  • At ease with multitasking. Adaptable. Good sense of priorities (and humour).
  • A strong operational capacity and embraces challenges.
  • Excellent human relations, networker and team-player.
  • Can handle success and failure, positive feedback as well as critiques.
  • Understanding of B2B trade is a plus, trade credit insurance is a nice to have.

Salary range:

  • €250-900/day
  • Job subject to contract via proUnity (AREA42 procurement platform), with monthly timesheets and invoicing
  • Invoices should be CC to invoices@area42.tech

Work hours, travel requirements, etc.:

  • Work up to 230 days for this SoW in 2025. As a freelancer, you are free to choose when you wish to work with AREA42 or to take holidays.
  • Travels to support the development of the SoW (occasionally when requested by AREA42) (travel to be arranged and cost carried by AREA42)
  • For administrative simplicity all travel assignments are arranged by AREA42 and also the costs are carried directly by AREA42.

Company description: AREA42

 AREA42 vision:

We work in a smooth B2B trade environment empowered by new technologies

 

At AREA42, we create, innovate, and manage solutions for a fluid, risk-savvy trade environment. We support companies who want to recode trade for the digital era.

 

Together with disruptors, technologists and visionaries, we build a more fertile trade environment. We co-design ambitious visions. We experiment and launch new solutions. We turn innovations into new growth engines.

 

We are backed by Credendo, the Export Credit Agency from Belgium and the most trusted leader in trade credit insurance and surety bonds.

​AREA42 Focus:

Our current investment thesis revolves around big untapped opportunities related to:

 

·      Platforms and marketplaces,

 

·      SMEs and freelancers,

 

·      Innovative credit data and machine learning,

 

·      Blockchain and other new trade paradigms.

 

For us, success can be measured in the upgrades we offer to trade ecosystems. We do not see technology as an objective in itself, but we believe it is key to unlock radical improvements for trade and accompanying risk. We take inspiration from diverse universes. We try to hack things, fail sometimes, learn always, and thrive when we co-innovate with partners who share our passion.

AREA42 Structure:

 

AREA42 is an ecosystem with 2 highly complementary zones: AREA42 innovation lab and AREA42 accelerator. Each zone contributes to a successful AREA42 innovation ecosystem.

 

·      Our innovation lab aims at growing a high-quality network of trusted partners, open to co-innovation and passionate about upgrading trade; it takes a lean start-up approach to experiment with new ideas and incubate them to become validated product concepts with a market fit. The learnings, successes and failures contribute to the feedback-loop and is shared with our innovation community.

 

·      Our accelerator works like a growth factory. We take validated product concepts and turn them into new lines of business. Our accelerator team works with the same powerful means as the best high-growth start-ups in order to scale the most ambitious ventures in trade.

 

Our first basecamp is Brussels, but our playground is Europe and the world.

AREA42 Culture:

 

We are a diverse team based on 3 important values: respect, curiosity, and boldness. We believe in mutual trust, entrepreneurship, collective creativity, technological excellence and solid execution. For us, these values are essential to creating high-impact innovations, which we need to deliver successful long-term growth, which will help spread an innovation culture in trade.

 

Often, we do not know exactly what we are building. However, we always start with an exciting vision and we iterate as fast as possible to confront it with reality. We have faith in the science of experimentation and in the lean start-up approach. We invite and welcome innovators of all kind to contribute and to have an impact. We share together the benefits of our successes.