Authentication Product Owner

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.
Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.
Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.
The Context
Within Cybersecurity Department, IAM Service Line is in charge of designing global IAM framework (policies, processes and solutions) and running operations for the whole Group, to protect all user accesses and provide a seamless user experience throughout their digital journey.
We are taking care of specificities of each of our major business but willing to offer common solutions and strong agility against permanent Merge & Acquisition challenges.
The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Product Owner to join our team, taking in charge our Authentication framework relying on two main technologies, Ping Identity and Microsoft Azure, and some additional ones deployed on specific scopes.
**The design of Product service catalog**: major services and enhancements expected to meet a lot of business expectations,
The Product lifecycle management and the related development roadmap,
The Product deployment roadmap definition and follow-up,
The decommissioning of legacy framework and the plan for driving convergence across the Group,
The change management to ensure appropriate awareness, training, communication to the various parties and their adhesion,
The coordination of all related teams and activities. This role requires, in addition to the pure Authentication expertise and skills on market standards (SAML, OIDC, OAuth, FIDO, Kerberos, SSO, MFA, etc. ), an overall understanding of processes and solutions in workplace and API domains to ensure providing the right support to various authentication use cases.
Key Responsibilities
Take over existing authentication activities and projects in progress, to take responsibility of all these initiatives in liaise with Head of Enterprise Directory team,
Establish with Head of Enterprise Directory team the ambitions and related strategy for Authentication product within the Group,
Take over and redefine/enhance/complete 2025-2026 roadmap containing major enhancements expected and new scopes (people, assets) to cover,
Ensure the promotion of Product to the various audiences needing to know to include it in their roadmap, ensure the awareness of all populations needing to use to ensure efficient appropriation,
Be part and contribute to the IAM Design Authority, internal community in charge of defining IAM standard patterns (technical architecture, solutions, etc.) against standard or unusual use-cases, under the leadership of IAM architect,
Upskill all IAM Service Line staff member in the Authentication domains, by providing regular awareness and knowledge sharing sessions, and by providing detailed study presentation in transversal team meetings such as Town Hall,
Guarantee appropriate formalization, documentation and capitalization of all data/information related to processes, solutions, standards, etc.
Perform continuous market watch in Authentication, particularly focusing on improving user experience through a seamless connection, and more generally in IAM to capture and challenge any opportunity against our IAM framework.

**Qualifications**:
8-10 years of proven successful experience in IAM Program / Product Management in large scale organization in a Shared-Services setup
Strong experience in Project Management and in IAM or cybersecurity projects
Experience with Microsoft Azure authentication solutions; experience with other IAM software vendors is a plus
Familiar with Product Management & Service Management practices
Agile savvy
Optimizes work processes
Non-technical skills
Ability to communicate and negotiate in an international / multi-cultural environment
Ability to work under pressure, in a tense working environment, keeping a positive mindset and demonstrating a strong culture in risk management, priority definition and arbitration
“Service-oriented” person with skills in managing client relationships: requirements, delivery, quality of service
Management of priorities and complex situations with multiple stakeholders while keeping good relati