As a Senior Product Owner at Digital Brand Solutions, you are responsible for the quality and strategic impact of complex digital products which might include more than one product team. Together with your agile team(s) you work on continuously improving and evolving the product to maximize the value for all internals customers.

Partnering with IT and internal stakeholders to define a robust product backlog, managing capability expansion increments and leading the team towards the definition of new functionalities & best practices are a few examples of the activities that will be expected from this role.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Strategy & Delivery

• Be accountable for the product success considering the value for the user community and the company (ROI).
• Specify the product vision, roadmap and objective key results as well as user stories considering the value for the user community and the company.
• Be accountable for product delivery in line with the roadmap and committed delivery dates.
• Identify and solve dependencies with other product owners to ensure efficient delivery. Coordinate interfaces between different product teams.

Stakeholder Management

• Represent the business for the digital product, fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that their views and requirements are captured in the product backlog.

Backlog Management

• Prioritize the items in your product backlog. Specify the definition-of-done in cooperation with the product team(s).
• Own the refinement of your product backlog to ensure that the product team(s) is/are delivering the right enhancements to drive user community and business value.
• Provide acceptance for delivered backlog items by the team, in line with the definition-of-done.

Monitoring

• Be accountable for monitoring, optimization and enhancement of the configuration, features and functionalities related to the product.
• Ensure that objective data sources and feedback are used for the optimization of the product.
• Ensure that product cost stay within committed budget.

Change & Process Management

• Promote the product across the user community and beyond.

• Identify & manage the need for new or improved processes to ensure an efficient product.

Key Relationships:

• Product Team(s)
• User community within Global Brands, Local Marketing teams & other Group Functions
• Brand Strategy & Business Development organization
• Global IT

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent communication skills and comfortable presenting to stakeholders at various organizational levels both in person and remotely
• High resilience and solution-oriented attitude
• Basic leadership skills

• Expert domain knowledge
• Expert knowledge of Agile working methods e.g. Scrum/Kanban
• Comfortable working with enterprise-level platforms and technologies
• Advanced understanding of IT products and capabilities
• Fluent in English both verbally and written

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree with focus on Business Administration, Communication or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum 8 years of experience working in a Brand and/or Digital environment
• Minimum 5 years working as a Product Owner or product management related role, preferably in an agile working setup
• Experience in working with stakeholders and experts at various organizational levels
• Experience in creating strong internal business cases to support investment and internal resource requests
• Experience as a Product Owner in at least one additional product area or domain