Product Owner

Product Owner – Part Structure Management

IKEA of Sweden, or IoS, is responsible for developing the IKEA range and making it available to stores and customers all over the world. IoS is leading business development at IKEA and the core IKEA matrices Range, Supplying, Technical and Commercial. At IKEA of Sweden you will work in a company with endless opportunities to develop in different operational areas and countries.

Range & Product Development is a part of IKEA of Sweden. The Product Engineering & Requirement team secures relevant solutions for IKEA Range & Supply – today and tomorrow. Our goal is to connect business and people with information technology.

Are you passionate about people and information technology?

Now we are looking for a Product Owner for the Part Structure Management area

Job Description

As a Product Owner in IKEA of Sweden, you will ensure that IKEA has an innovative, user focused and reliable digital product in the PLM (Product Lifecycle management) area, that helps IKEA to maximize the business value. You are responsible to lead the design and development of our PLUS (Part Structure Management) product. This role requires both a strategic and operational business understanding as well as a technical understanding for the specific area of responsibility. As a Product Owner you work close to our Business stakeholders, other Product Owners and with our development teams.

As Product Owner you:

Lead the work in a digital product and owns the product backlog and prioritizes business needs and user experience.

Shape ideas into concrete digital product features and deliver new business potentials.

Lead the planning of digital product releases, communication, learning and set expectation for delivery of new features and functionalities.

You will be responsible for

• prioritizing the digital product roadmap and giving input to the overall digital roadmap
• securing that the digital product maximizes the business value, controlling the costs and giving input to the overall budget
• the digital product life cycle including information management and the running digital product
• manage dependencies and blockers, improving digital product delivery capabilities.
• Responsible for end-user training material etc.
• Establish UX visions and strategies for the area of responsibility.
• Gather insights to understand and empathize with the user’s reality. Elicit, document and analyse business needs and stakeholder inputs.

The position is based in Älmhult.

Qualifications

You are passionate about business and technology and appreciate the mix of strategic thinking and turning trends and requirements into practice. You get energized by working interdependently in agile teams. You are the type of person that can manage to see the big picture as well as the details and you collaborate and communicate with your stakeholders to build trust and partnership in order to reach our common goals.

You will bring with you deep understanding and experience of defining features combined with an understanding of the current and future digital technology trends, industry standards and software development. You know how to work in an Agile, DevOps working set-up and how to deliver cloud-based solutions.

You have following knowledge:

• Solid Experience working with product lifecycle management
• Experience with agile development and UX design practices
• Thorough experience from working in an international company closely together with external partners and suppliers
• Proven ability to deliver easy-to-use solutions for technologically complex problems
• Ability to turn insights into actions and follow up on pre-defined goals
• Good leadership capabilities
• An entrepreneurial spirit, a strategic mind-set and focused on potential improvements and results
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Leading with the ability to engage and communicate with senior stakeholders.
• Preferred:
• 3 years’ experience in equal/comparable position
• Experience from the IKEA value chain
• Experience from product development
• Experience from PLM-solutions from PTC

Additional information

Sounds interesting?

We welcome all applications. Submit your application, CV and letter of motivation, online via our recruitment system Smart Recruiters no later than 10 of October. Note that we might close the possibility to apply if we found the right candidate earlier.

IKEA is a world leader in the home furnishing business. We are a values-driven company with a passion for life at home. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. Our operations include developing and supplying the global IKEA product range, including a range of IKEA food offers