SUMMARY:
A leading global technology-driven environment is seeking an experienced Sub-Product Owner to drive the build-up, management, and continuous improvement of critical outbound logistics and delivery processes within a highly integrated international landscape.
This is an exciting opportunity for a senior IT professional with strong Agile, DevOps, product ownership, and stakeholder management experience to work within a fast-paced global environment supporting complex enterprise solutions across multiple countries.
POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a clearly defined product scope including development, operation and continuous improvement of software or IT solutions.
- Continuously prioritise and maintain the product backlog aligned with customer requirements, market trends and organisational goals.
- Ensure backlog items are well-defined with clear acceptance criteria and a definition of done.
- Evaluate developed product scope and decide on release or rework based on defined criteria.
- Distribute resources across feature teams to maximize customer value and meet strategic objectives.
- Guide and support technical teams, serving as the technical point of contact for Product Owners and Line Managers.
- Collaborate with business and IT Product Owners and cross-country colleagues to align product direction.
- Monitor team progress, ensure timely completion of user stories, and escalate Sub Product risks as needed.
- Forecast and plan for resources, infrastructure and licenses in coordination with Product Owner and Line Manager.
- Support operational stability, troubleshoot and optimize processes to maintain production quality.
- Support internal change processes and further develop IT-relevant processes and agile working models.
- Promote efficiency and effective self-organization within teams and support measures to improve team dynamics.
Key requirements:- Strong ability to continuously prioritize and maintain a product backlog with well-defined acceptance criteria and a clear definition of done.
- Experience making release/rework decisions based on evaluation of developed product scope and defined criteria.
- Technical leadership skills to guide feature teams and support technical quality, acting as first point of contact for product owners, operations teams.
- Experience allocating resources across feature teams, balancing capacity and customer benefit.
- Strong Agile and DevOps mindset with hands-on experience supporting agile working models and improving team efficiency.
- Proven track record of forecasting and planning resources in coordination with Product Owner and line management.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills to collaborate with business and IT product owners across countries.
- Ability to monitor team development progress, ensure timely completion of user stories, and escalate risks when timelines or deliverables are at risk.
- Experience supporting operational stability, maintenance and continuous improvement of software/IT solutions in production.
- Interface experience with SAP systems.
- Knowledge of SAP Warehouse/Logistic Processes (SAP EWM/WM/MM/PP)
- Familiarity with IT Service Management (ITSM) processes and tools.
- Hands-on experience with Jira for backlog and issue management.
- Experience supporting cross-country product activity (e.g., ZA, UK, MX, DE, CN) is beneficial.
- Knowledge of DevOps product management.
- Experience improving agile processes and team dynamics through coaching and change support.
- 10+ years of experience in IT or an IT degree and/or a relevant professional qualification.
- Demonstrable experience in Sub Product or Product Owner roles, agile delivery and stakeholder management.
- Hands-on experience or understanding of software development, DevOps practices and production support responsibilities.
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