Product Lead Platform & Enablers Solutions Service (Expert) - ELIA
Description
The Product Lead will own a product line within Elia's Platform Energy Solutions product cluster and ensure its strategic success. The role defines and continuously refines an insight-driven vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with PES and Elia priorities. The Product Lead translates strategic priorities into clear product bets and ensures the product line delivers measurable value to customers, partners, Elia, and society. The position operates at the heart of energy-transition challenges, including evolving energy markets, flexibility, and timely connection of new production and consumption units.
The role creates the conditions for product teams to thrive by providing context, autonomy, support, and clear governance. It leads product ceremonies, enables continuous discovery and delivery, represents the product line to senior leadership, and serves as the primary escalation point for product decisions. Close collaboration with operations, key account managers, other Product Leads, and multidisciplinary teams ensures customer knowledge, operational feedback, and cross-product dependencies shape priorities. The Product Lead also sets measurable KPIs and is ultimately accountable for the product line's budget and performance metrics.
People leadership and external stakeholder engagement are central to the assignment. The Product Lead coaches Product Managers and Product Owners across Strategy, Discovery, Delivery, Marketing, Analytics, and Leadership, while defining roles, responsibilities, and development plans. The role fosters evidence-based, outcome-focused ways of working and governs products across their full lifecycle from innovation and discovery to in-life management and retirement. It also leads client and partner engagement and aligns with federal and regional regulators on priorities and solution design.
Top Reasons to Apply
Lead energy transition
Shape strategic products
Drive groundbreaking technologies
Develop leadership skills
Diverse collaborative team
Detailed Responsibilities and Skills
Additional Responsibilities
- Enable continuous product discovery
- Enable continuous product delivery
- Ensure regular customer conversations
- Run structured product experiments
- Remove product delivery blockers
- Represent product senior leadership
- Serve product escalation point
- Align operational department needs
- Enable operational feedback loops
- Improve product line solutions
- Align customer account managers
- Leverage client account knowledge
- Shape solution design priorities
- Manage cross-product dependencies
- Maintain product portfolio coherence
- Coach Product Managers Owners
- Develop six core competencies
- Define product team roles
- Define team development plans
- Foster discovery decision culture
- Set measurable product KPIs
- Own product line budget
- Own product performance metrics
- Ensure lifecycle product governance
- Lead product stakeholder engagement
- Set client engagement agenda
- Set partner engagement content
- Engage federal regional regulators
- Align regulatory solution priorities
- Align regulatory solution design
General skills
- 5+ years of product management experience with a proven track record at senior or lead level.
- Strong experience owning a product line or segment end-to-end.
- Ability to define and communicate a compelling product vision.
- Ability to translate product vision into an insight-driven, customer-focused strategy.
- Experience managing a portfolio of products.
- Ability to make prioritisation decisions based on business value.
- Ability to make prioritisation decisions based on customer impact.
- Ability to make prioritisation decisions based on feasibility.
- Strong analytical and data-driven approach.
- Comfort setting OKRs.
- Comfort tracking product KPIs.
- Ability to make decisions grounded in evidence.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to navigate complex landscapes including key account managers, operations teams, and executive leadership.
- Coaching mindset with ability to build maturity in people.
- High emotional intelligence.
- Ability to resolve conflicts.
- Ability to build trust.
- Ability to align teams through influence rather than authority.
- Good level of Dutch and/or French.
- Good level of English.
- For non-EU candidates: work permit allowing work in Belgium.
- For non-EU candidates: valid residence permit confirming right of residence in Belgium.
Technical skills
- Fluency in agile product operating models.
- Experience working in multidisciplinary teams across Product, Engineering, Design, and Data.
- Knowledge of energy market structures.
- Knowledge of grid operations.
- Knowledge of flexibility services.
- Experience with market design for regulated product environments.
- Ideally, end-to-end product ownership experience in an energy context.
- Ideally, end-to-end product ownership experience in a utility context.
- Ideally, end-to-end product ownership experience in a regulated infrastructure context.