About PortimaPortima is a Belgian IT services cooperative. We design, build, and operate the digital platforms used every day by insurance brokers and insurers across the country.Behind those broker-facing platforms, a portfolio of internal business applications keeps Portima itself running: customer and contract master data, billing and invoicing flows, internal reporting, identity management for our customers, and the day-to-day tools used by our Sales, Admin, Accountancy, Broker Contact Center teams. This portfolio is the responsibility of our Supporting Apps team. The Supporting Apps team is part of the delivery organization, and projects managed by Delivery teams mostly also imply strong integration with Supporting Apps-managed systems and applications.The RoleWe are looking for a Product Owner to take ownership of the Supporting Apps product portfolio. You will work closely with a team of experienced developers and analysts and will be the single point of accountability for what the team builds, in which order, and why.This role is created as part of an evolution of how we organise our delivery teams. Where the team was previously led by a chapter lead with a strong technical hand on the backlog, we now want to separate value ownership from technical leadership and entrust a dedicated PO with the product and business knowledge side. Technical direction will be handled jointly with the senior engineers in the team.The portfolio is broad and connects many parts of Portima. You will need to be comfortable navigating multiple internal stakeholder groups, prioritising under constraints, and balancing run-the-business work with structural modernisation.Your ResponsibilitiesProduct ownershipOwn the product vision and roadmap for the supporting applications portfolio, in alignment with the broader Portima strategy. This also means a deep understanding of the underlying business processes.Build, maintain, and prioritise the team's backlog across multiple applications and stakeholder groups.Translate stakeholder needs into clear, well-refined user stories and features, with explicit acceptance criteria.Stakeholder managementBe the primary point of contact for internal stakeholders across Sales, Admin, Accountancy, Marketing, Broker Contact Center and Delivery teams.Run regular alignment sessions, demos, and roadmap reviews; bring transparency on trade-offs.Manage dependencies with neighbouring teams (delivery tribe, platform, security) and external partners.Delivery & agile cadenceDrive the team's agile rituals (refinement, planning, review, retrospective) in a scaled-agile setup organised around quarterly Product Increments.Define and protect a balanced mix of new value, maintenance, and modernisation in each increment.Ensure that the team continues to deliver predictable maintenance & support capacity to the business while progressing the modernisation roadmap.Modernisation & evolutionTake co-ownership, with engineering leads, of the gradual modernisation of the portfolio (legacy components, integrations, data flows, reporting stack).Identify opportunities for simplification, automation, and AI-assisted productivity in internal processes supported by the team.Contribute to compliance and security readiness of the portfolio, working with the relevant chapters.What We Are Looking ForMandatorySolid experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst with PO accountabilities, ideally on internal or B2B applications.Demonstrated ability to manage a heterogeneous backlog across several applications and stakeholder groups simultaneously.Comfortable working in a scaled agile environment with quarterly planning cycles.Strong stakeholder management skills: able to listen, structure needs, push back constructively, and bring decisions to closure.Good technical literacy: not expected to code, but able to engage seriously with engineers, understand data flows, integrations, and trade-offs.Excellent written and verbal communication in French AND English; ability to read technical documentation in both languages.Dutch is a strong plus given our bilingual context.Nice to HaveExposure to internal IT product management: master data, billing/invoicing flows, internal reporting, identity management.Experience accompanying a team through the modernisation of a legacy portfolio.Familiarity with e-invoicing and accounting integration topics.Awareness of regulatory frameworks relevant to financial services IT (such as ISO 27001, DORA, NIS2, or SOC 2).Experience with AI-assisted productivity in a delivery context.Background in or familiarity with the insurance sector.Why Join UsA meaningful role in a company that has been a trusted technology partner of the Belgian insurance sector for decades.A genuinely broad scope: your portfolio touches many of Portima's internal value chains.A team of experienced engineers and analysts, with deep functional knowledge of our internal processes.Real autonomy to shape the role: you are the first dedicated PO on this portfolio.Flexibility and a competitive Belgian benefits package.Interested?We would love to hear from you. Apply via our careers page and tell us briefly about a product or portfolio you have shaped, the trade-offs you faced, and what you are most proud of.