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 Product Information Management (PIM) 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 PIM solution across BCE.
You will be working in an agile manner with international stakeholders across all parts of the business, specifically in the PIM 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 PIM 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 PIM 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 3-5 years of experience in similar role and logistics/stock control experience with strong interest in business process flows
- Good overview and understanding of PIM processes in the wholesale/distribution industry
- In-depth understanding of Agile mindset and methods, understanding of industry standards and best practices
- Product Owner and/or Scrum Master certification
- Experience in mid-large scale projects, preferably in a multi-national environment working with external customers and 3rd party vendors
- Experience in implementing PIM 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.
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