Product Owner - Product Data Services

To Seco Tools and our Digital Product Services department, we’re now looking for a Product Specialist to care for our product data services. As a team, we’re running the digital services related to Seco’s product portfolio by delivering a compelling story to the market. Together we’re passionate about guiding to purchase and supporting customers on the use of our tools. All in all, our team makes sure all individual digital services offer a distinct functionality and value propositions, and provide a consistent interface, look-and-feel and user experience.
Are you a creative and dedicated digital ambassador who’s highly organized and have skills to drive multiple initiatives simultaneously, all while maintaining the highest levels of customer experience? Then it’s probably you we’re looking for. We welcome you to a role in a new area where you get to improve and develop solutions for an industry that’s constantly evolving and going through major changes – an exciting setting to be part of to say the least.
What about the job?
In this position, you act in close collaboration with our sales teams, IT, product managers and customers to enhance, maintain and build improvements for our product data solutions. You also support in the data-distribution according to requirements of end-users. In line with our overall strategy and meeting business needs, you describe and prioritize improvements, changes and bug fixes. Being responsible for the backlog of external channels, you explore product data needs and translate customer requirements to existing solutions or develop new ones. To ensure our continuous success, you either drive or support projects to capture improvements and requirements from both existing and new partners. You also coordinate the external product data board, enabling a company-wide overall view on issues and improvements.
Some of your tasks:
Defining clear requirements received from both internal and external end-users
Defining external channel partners for related services
Supporting various projects within a global setting
Driving product data distribution implementation in an aligned format

Setting up and developing processes and procedures to collect and third-party partner requirements and following through with the implementation of those effectively and efficiently
The location for this position is preferably at our headquarters in Fagersta (Sweden), however, for the right candidate it can be flexible worldwide with presence at one of our offices in either Erkrath (Germany), Pune (India), Alcester (England) or Troy (US). We promote working from home according to country-laws depending on where you're located.
Who you are
We’re looking for someone with a university degree within for example IT, Digital Sales, Digital Products, Commercial Economics or Digital Marketing, combined with a technical curiosity about our products and its complimentary data. We believe that you understand how different systems talk to each other as well as how to work with product data. Basic knowledge within the machining industry and a variety of digital technologies – including integration, AI and machine learning – is a plus. Proficiency in English is a must as you work in a truly global setting, while knowledge of other languages is desirable.
Your inclusive approach puts the customers and their journeys at front, combined with your creative way of working makes you the right fit for this role. You have strong social skills and the ability to effectively connect with a wide range of people. Proactive and positive with a holistic perspective are other words that describe you, and you have a natural drive to complete tasks in a timely manner:
Having good knowledge within the field of product data and agile-development and good strategic thinking are keys to this role, other must-haves are:
Excellent communication & people skills - Working with sales teams, IT, product managers and our customers to enhance, maintain and create new improvements for our product data solutions and data-distribution.
A visionary mindset – You define, describe and prioritize improvements, changes, bug fixes according the business-needs in line with overall strategy.
A networker - Working with vendors and third-party product data providers to improve our offering and integrations with wide variety of third parties such as Data-brokers, CAM-suppliers and other new upcoming platforms.
Being structured and able to prioritize - Working through backlog for our Product Data Services translating customer requirements into existing solutions or possibly develop new solutions.
Work data-driven & user-centric - Driving new market and user studies to gather improvements and requirements from existing and new partners.

Our Seco culture
Seco employees across the globe share our family spirit, along with a passion for our customers and a personal commitment to ensure success in everything we do. For us, it’s also clear that our diversities form an outstanding foundation for achieving great results. Visit our LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us and our products further.
Application
Send your application no later than January 7, 2022. Read more about us and apply at www.secotools.com (Job ID: R0034392).
We aim for an open and fair recruitment process and utilize assessment tools to safeguard objectivity. As a first step in this process, a personality test and a logic ability test will be sent to you shortly after last application date.
Contact information
For more detailed information about this position, please contact the hiring manager:
Gerrit Kremer, Global Product Manager - Digital Product Services, +46 (0)70 295 59 76
Union contacts - Sweden
Monica Andersson, Unionen, +46 (0)223 403 23
Thomas Andersson, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)223 405 35
Håkan Westborg, Ledarna, +46 (0)223 406 27
For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)26 261 444.
Recruitment Specialist
Heidi Pynnönen
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