Product Owner - Digital Solutions within Sustainability- Viby

Location: Viby J, DK

Are you passionate about digitalization and eager to make a positive impact in the business? Would you like to join our team and help driving the sustainability agenda? Join us to help us creating dairy of the future.

We are seeking a dedicated and forward-thinking Product Owner to manage our digital solutions within sustainability. As the Product Owner, you will play a key role in collaborating with our users to understand their needs, translating them into product requirements, and delivering innovative solutions that address sustainability possibilities. This is your chance to spearhead digital initiatives at Arla. Join us and be at the forefront of creating new ways of working through leading digital solutions.

About the job
As the Product Owner for a team working with digital solutions for Sustainability, you will play a pivotal role in advancing Arla's ambitions. Your primary focus will be on understanding the business needs, translating them into product requirements, managing a backlog of business needs and empowering our internal teams to deliver value across various domains. Specifically you will work on solutions in relation to product carbon footprint, supply shed management and data commercialization. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders from our agricultural, sustainability and IT teams.
Moreover, your responsibilities will be to:

• Collaborate with users and business leads to understand their needs and translating them into clear and concise product requirements.
• Build and prioritizing backlog based on business value
• Manage the product backlog, continuously prioritizing and refining it based on changing requirements and company dynamics
• Collaborating with the Product Manager and other Product Owners within the Agile Release Train, including participating in and leading agile ceremonies including i.e. PI planning sessions, system demos, daily stand up etc.
• Monitor and evaluate product progress at each stage of the process, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to sustainability objectives
• Liaise with the product team and end-users to gather feedback and deliver regular updates on product development.
• Ensuring adherence to agile principles

Who are you?
To succeed in this role, it requires a candidate who has a matrix-oriented approach, deep business acumen, and excellent organizational and communication skills.
Moreover, we imagine that:

• You have a relevant degree and ideally experience as a Product Owner or from a similar role working with the business.
• You possess strong project management skills and have experience working in an agile development environment.
• Your ability to translate user needs into clear product requirements and manage product backlogs is essential.
• Finally, fluency in English is essential.

We are seeking a candidate who brings a combination of exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, enabling them to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels. Our ideal candidate will also demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Additionally, we highly appreciate a collaborative and team-oriented mindset.

What do we offer?
Joining Arla, you will become part of a vibrant and dynamic work environment. We are committed to professional development and promoting from within. Our positive and collaborative culture will bring out the best in you. And you will join a market leader who produces nutritious household-favourite brands in a way that makes things better for our customers, the farmers who own us, and the whole world.

Application and contact
If you want to be part of our journey and help shape the industry, then seize this exciting opportunity. We look forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We will be conducting interviews ongoing. For additional information, please call Senior Manager Digital, Christoffer Hooshyar Junge, at tel.: +4591316821.
We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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