Product Owner

Senior product owner- Contract- Amsterdam

Our client is one of the largest sportswear manufacturer globally, driven by innovation and drive to action. Their focus is to create the most amazing products, services and experiences for their consumers. They are looking for a product owner to work within Digital eCommerce responsible for the quality and strategic impact of a small or medium digital products. Together within your agile team you work on continuously improving and evolving the product in order to optimize the value for the consumer.

As a Senior Product Owner you are responsible for the quality and strategic impact of a complex digital products working within cross functional teams. Within your agile team you will work on continuously improving and evolving the product in order to maximize the value for the consumer.

Working closely within IT to define a robust product backlog, managing capability expansion increments and leading the team towards definition of new functionalities & best practices are a few examples of the activities that will be expected from this role. Additionally you will be working closely with various internal stakeholders, including Markets and other DBC areas to drive consumer engagement and satisfaction, as well as incremental revenues out of delivering digital experiences.

The Role:

• Be accountable for the Communities product success considering the value for the consumer and the company (ROI).
• Specify the Communities product vision and roadmap as well as user stories considering the value for the consumer and the company as well as its role and impact on the adidas digital ecosystem.
• 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.
• Represent the business for the product, fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that their views and requirements are captured in the product backlog.
• Prioritize the items in your product backlog.
• Own the refinement of your product backlog to ensure that the product teams are delivering the right enhancements to drive consumer and business value.
• Provide acceptance for delivered backlog items by the team, in line with the definition-of-done.
• 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.
• Create a supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained and provided with career opportunities through development.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of data and team feedback and make appropriate changes in order to meet business needs.
• Provide team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and objectives.

Experience required:

• Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 8+ years of experience working in a Digital and/or eCommerce environment
• 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
• 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
• Familiarity with A/B testing or other multivariate testing
• 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

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