Product Owner – Warehouse Management System

Job Description

Industry: Wholesale
Seniority for this role: Mid-Senior level
About us Bunzl is a market leading distribution company in the areas of healthcare, safety, cleaning, retail, grocery and food service. We operate in a decentralized structure to adapt ourselves fully to local market needs and to safeguard local entrepreneurship. Our purpose is to deliver essential business solutions around the world and create long-term sustainable value for the benefit of all our stakeholders through our core values: humility, responsiveness, reliability and transparency. In Continental Europe we are present in 17 countries, operating in 64 companies. Role Summary As a Product Owner you will be implementing and continuously improving warehousing solutions across Bunzl Continental Europe (BCE) with a complex architecture and business landscape. You will be working on the blueprint solution design, harmonizing business processes and implementation of the WMS solution across BCE. You will be working in an agile manner with international stakeholders across all parts of the business, specifically in the logistics area, as well as 3rd party vendors and integration partners. You will be part of the European technology team located in the Netherlands and Hungary providing IT services for over 40 businesses, in over 10 countries of Bunzl Continental Europe The key objective of the role is to act as subject matter expert on product and business processes in the logistics area. Primary responsibilities As a Product Owner you will… Define product vision and goals and business requirements and from that create & maintain a product roadmap (backlog in ADO), having a decision-taking mandate on prioritisation of the product backlog items Take ownership of the product backlog for the WMS product, facilitating refinement sessions to ensure the backlog is effective and groomed to best fit the business and project needs Prioritise user stories into suitable sprint planning Define acceptance criteria, support test activities, and facilitate the rollout of the products Capture delivery scope and deliverables and report on progress to key stakeholders through Agile ceremonies such as stand-ups and demos Perform risk & dependency management, aligning with project teams Act as key point of contact with the business/customer in order to gather and refine functional business requirements and define scope of request Take end-to-end responsibility for delivery of value to customer and safeguarding quality End-to-end responsible for defining and harmonizing the business processes and ways of working based on input from the business stakeholders Take end-to-end responsibility for delivering documentation such as process flows, requirement specifications, training materials Translate business requirements into user stories, aligning with the Business Analysts to design a scalable solution Qualifications and Experience: Minimum 8-10 years of experience in similar role with in-depth understanding of Agile mindset and methods, understanding of industry standards and best practices Minimum 5-8 years proven practical experience as Product Owner is a must Product Owner and/or Scrum Master certification Experience in implementing transformation programs with large technology delivery components is a must, including an in-depth understanding of complex architecture landscapes Experience in mid-large scale projects, preferably in a multi-national environment working with external customers and 3rd party vendors In dept experience in designing process flows using BPMN standards Experience in implementing WMS solutions Degree educated (BA or higher) Experience with complex stakeholder management, preferably in a decentralised organisation is a plus Experience in the wholesale/distribution/logistics industry Strong analytical mindset, innovative thinker, and service-oriented delivery lead Excellent command of English is a must (both written and spoken) Microsoft Dynamics experience is an advantage Driving licence Competencies: Ownership and Commitment – achieving organisational goals & objectives Emotional Intelligence – empathy, coping with pressures & setbacks, cultural sensitivity Learning Agility – adapting & responding to change Network Performance – supporting teams’ work to create value, effectively using network to advance goals Judgement – decision-making, balancing risk taking & issue escalation, critical thinking Servant Leadership – guiding & motivating others Stakeholder Partnership – relationship management, communication, influencing, (meeting) facilitation, confident presenter Customer Centricity – meeting expectations, responsive to feedback Risk Management – anticipating & mitigating risks, minimising impact of change, understanding dependencies Business Acumen – organisational awareness, outcome orientation We offer you: Professional challenges and career development opportunities Diverse and inspiring international working environment Travel throughout Europe is expected 25-40% Dynamic, young team of excellent professionals Competitive salary package, Cafeteria Good technical support: laptop, phone, monitor, etc. Home office Application Process After you apply to this position, your profile will be reviewed internally and if we see a possible match, one of our recruiters will call you to get acquainted by telephone and ask additional questions. We will then discuss your application with the Head of your department and an invitation will follow for a first interview with HR and afterwards with the Head of the area. In these interviews, we will discuss your position and fire all our questions at you. Of course you will also receive plenty of questions. Are we all excited? Sometimes a third interview follows and behavior test are requested. If you are approved you will receive an offer overwhelming contract proposal from us. In the case your profile doesn’t match this job, you’ll receive an automatically message from us. Good luck ! Show more Show less