Global Product Owner for Time Tracking and Absence

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.

The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations.
Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

Are you interested in digital transformation in HR and experienced in managing time tracking and absence processes? Then take a look at this opportunity to become a Product Owner in a great team!
VELUX is on a dynamic digitalization journey, having embraced Workday as our primary HR management system. We're looking for a Global Product Owner for Time Tracking and Absence to elevate our systems to new heights. If you're a strategic thinker with experience with project management and stakeholder engagement, join our HR Processes, Tools, and Reporting team and make a significant impact across our global organization.

Your challenges
As our Product Owner, you will be the global owner of the absence and time tracking solution and will be responsible for rolling out the solution to relevant geographies and business units, as well as ensuring smooth operation in countries that are already life. Your job is to understand the needs of local countries to ensure that the products are developed in a way that meets those needs together with support from our P&O Digital Delivery Team.

Your primary tasks will include:

• Serve as the global owner of the Time Tracking and Absence modules in Workday, ensuring they meet our high standards for functionality, user experience, and business alignment.
• Engage with stakeholders across various global and especially local functions to gather needs, feedback, and drive adoption.
• Conduct requirements gathering workshops, plan for testing and prepare global and local teams for deployment in new geographies and countries on an ongoing basis.
• Hands-on configuration of Workday to ensure delivery of complex solutions when tier 1 and tier 2 resources are challenged to design solutions according to business needs.
• Define the product vision and strategy for Time Tracking and Absence. Develop actionable product roadmaps and backlogs that reflect the balance between stakeholder input and the overarching business strategy.
• Stay abreast of new functionalities within Workday and the broader HR tech landscape. Identify opportunities for innovation and efficiency within the Time Tracking and Absence modules, aiming for an optimal user experience and operational excellence.
• Manage changes, updates, and enhancements to the Time Tracking and Absence processes. Ensure clear communication and training materials are available, promoting effective adoption across the organization.

Your qualifications

• An enthusiasm for HR digitalization, with a specific interest in Time Tracking and Absence management.
• A minimum of five years of experience in HR technology, with a strong preference for candidates with hands-on Workday Time Tracking and Absence modules experience.
• Proven project management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver assignments independently.
• Experience in facilitating workshops and conducting training programs, both in-person and virtually.
• A master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., HR, Business Administration, Information Technology).
• Advanced stakeholder management skills, with experience working in a global, cross-functional, matrix environment.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken, with good communication and training skills.

Your opportunities
The VELUX Group is the world leader in roof windows and skylights. We are family and foundation-owned with a long history of great results and giving back to society. We offer exciting projects and great opportunities for your personal and professional development, and you will get a unique chance to work with competent and skilled colleagues where commitment, mutual respect and thoroughness are among our core values.

If you want to make a difference, this is the place to be. Working across many business entities and functions, you will get a chance to sharpen your analytical skills and form good collaborative relationships with colleagues and stakeholders from various parts of the business. Our team is characterized by an informal tone and respect for each other both as a team and as individuals.

To us, collaboration is key, and we encourage local initiatives. This means that you will have contact with a wide range of key stakeholders and gain exposure across our organization. As you build positive business relationships and business knowledge, you will become an important contributor to supporting our growth strategy.

Equal Opportunity Employer
VELUX Residential is fully committed to the concept and practice of equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. To further our goal of equal employment opportunity for all employees and prospective employees, it is the policy of VELUX Residential to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. All employment decisions shall be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity and only job-related qualifications will be required.

Location: Andrássy út 9., Budapest

Additional location:

• Ådalsvej 99 Hørsholm