Product Owner

IKEA is in a transformation journey with the aim to combine our home furnishing knowledge with modern digital technology’s to enables an agile, relevant and personal experience for the many people. Some of the top priorities for digitalization of marketing communication is to enable effective creation and distribution of impactful, relevant and updated content across all channels and markets, while enabling collaboration with partners and external parties across the globe. To increase our impact and accessibility and lower waste, the ambition is to be data-driven, using analytics and intelligence for effective planning, executing, tracking and following up marketing plans, to reach the many people and increase ROI.
This is a how. To support the journey, we create a digital transformation team setting the direction, guidelines and processes including execution and governance of digital communications across IKEA entities and channels. As part of this journey we are now looking for a Product owner for PIM to join our team
Job Description
As Product owner you will lead the design and development of one of our Martech related products. This roles requires both a strategical business understanding as well as a technical understanding for the specific area. You will lead the development of the respective product using an agile way of working in combination with Ikea processes. Take part in design and development of digital capabilities and business opportunities into Marketing & Communication to enable creation of impactful communication across channels and markets for IKEA customers and co-workers
Your assignment will include:
Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities
Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
In close collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders you will shape ideas into concrete product features and deliver new business potential
Be part of defining our digital strategy and the marketing related technology roadmap to meet our ambitions
Lead the design and delivery of the product by applying relevant IKEA process and its methods and tools, securing delivery to set objectives
Proactively evaluate new technology and market trends and provide technology/digital recommendations and new capabilities in order to deliver better business result.
Actively support colleagues in the journey of digital transformation.

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 you 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 a 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 knowledge of following areas:
Previous experience as product owner preferable in the Martech field
Thorough experience from software development of relevant technology projects in an international company and environment
University degree in Computer science, Marketing, Communication or equivalent
Experience from design and delivery of Martech platform such as Product Information Management,
Experience with agile development practices
Proven ability to deliver easy-to-use solutions for technologically complex problems
Have the ability to turn insights into actions and follow up on pre-defined KPIs
Ability to manage multiple tasks in a rapidly changing environment and have a great attention to details
Several years of experience in team leadership
Have an entrepreneurial spirit, a strategic mind-set and are always focused on potential improvements and results
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to engage and communicate with senior business-leaders and Technology Leadership