Product Owner, Supply Chain Planning

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Product Owner for Supply Chain Planning to join our growing digital team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for defining and communicating the product vision, managing the product backlog, and ensuring alignment with business goals for our global supply chain planning product (demand & supply planning).
You will collaborate closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that enhance user satisfaction and drive business success across nearly all of our markets around the globe.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Vision and Strategy: Defining and communicating how the present and future product vision and strategy is best aligned with business objectives.
• Product solution alignment and BAU ownership: Fitting for purpose ongoing alignment in close alignment with Business Functional owner / GPO
• Backlog Management: Creating, prioritizing, and maintaining the product backlog, ensuring it reflects stakeholder needs and business value.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Engaging with stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback, ensuring their needs are met.
• User Stories Development: Writing clear and actionable user stories that guide the IT development team to deliver a clear technical specification
• Sprint Planning: Participating in sprint planning meetings to help both development and deployment team to understand priorities and objectives.
• Acceptance Criteria: Defining acceptance criteria for user stories and ensuring they are met before release.
• Performance Monitoring: Analysing product performance metrics and user feedback to inform future iterations.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborating with business use case / requirement owners, as well the IT design, development, and the and project Roll out teams to ensure cohesive product development.
• Market Research: Staying updated on industry trends and competitor products to inform product decisions.
• Risk Management: Identifying potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success.

What we’re looking for
To be successful in this role, we imagine that you possess:

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in Agile environments.
• Strong and general understanding of Supply chain process and digitalisation (Planing, logistic, Manufactoring and Procurement)
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent in English
• Analytical mindset with the ability to ensure and develop a strong Data driven culture and approach
• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Jira) and collaboration platforms (e.g., MS Teams).
• Experience with product roadmap tools and analytics software (e.g., Power BI).
• CPG or FMCG supply chain experience is a plus.

What you can expect:
In Carlsberg, we are brewing for a better today and tomorrow and what we can offer you is an equal opportunity to grow across our company. We believe that each employee drives their own seat in designing their career path and we fully support them endeavouring to create as many development opportunities as possible through internal promotions, Short / Long Time Assignments (STA/LTA), and horizontal moves within different markets.

All of this is taking place in culturally diverse environment, where we celebrate our successes together and where no matter where you are from, who you are, or what experiences you bring to the table, all we say is: WELCOME YOU!

We encourage you to visit and learn more about our DE&I Strategy: Sustainability » Our ESG programme » Diversity, Equity and Inclusion « Carlsberg Group

If you join our team, some of the benefits you’ll enjoy are:

• Flexible, hybrid work model
• Annual bonus based on company and individual performance
• Unlimited soft and coffee drinks in the office
• Monthly beer and soft drink allowance
• Well-equipped and comfortable office in the heart of Carlsberg City District in Valby, Copenhagen
• Opportunities to have fun together during regular Friday bars with alcohol and alcohol-free drinks.
• Being part of a company with an enormous heritage and a strong connection with Denmark’s Capital City

At Carlsberg, we pride ourselves on being Purpose-led and Performance focused in everything we do. Our diverse perspectives, unique abilities, and experiences don’t just shape our Performance, they make us who we are across the Group.

With so many iconic brands, we know our differences are what make us stand out. And while we are different, we are unified by our shared Purpose: Carlsberg should be a force for good, dedicated to brewing for a better today and tomorrow.

Interested?
Apply through the link. Please notice that this is the only way we accept applications.

The deadline for applying is the 26th of January. We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled sooner than the deadline, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Carlsberg Group: Brewing for a better today and tomorrow
For us success has always been in the diverse mix of our people, our beers and our brands. At Carlsberg, we want to recruit and develop people with a global mindset, cultural understanding, and international experience to ensure that our organization stays agile, inclusive and prepared for future growth. Only by acknowledging and harvesting from different perspectives and experiences, will we gain competitive advantage and leverage the effect of diversity for business growth. Carlsberg aims to create equal access to opportunity regardless of social identity, and we encourage everyone to apply regardless of gender, nationality, race, religion or any other characteristics protected by law.