Job
- Level
- Lead
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- Scrum, Product
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop technical solutions to enhance customer relations and sales, lead a team of product owners, and manage product strategy in the area of data management and reporting.
Your role in the team
- In your role as Chief Product Owner (m/f/d), you will work closely with the product teams as well as the specialist departments.
- You recognize what will move us tomorrow and develop (technological) solutions based on our business models to improve them.
- As a Servant Leader, you are responsible for the holistic and continuous development as well as the disciplinary leadership of your 5-10 Product Owners.
- Additionally, you support our domain specialist in the continuous development of the domain and coordinate across departments.
- You are responsible for managing the Data Management and Reporting cluster in collaboration with the leadership team and in close connection with our analytics units.
- This entails professional and business-economic responsibility: you have an eye for product visions - both technically and professionally - as well as for the team skills required or to be established for this purpose.
- For your cluster, you derive a cluster strategy from the IT, business, and domain-specific strategies and enable your Product Owners (POs) to implement the strategy in their products.
- You set the guidelines and design processes for targeted and effective product development.
- You are responsible for the consolidated, cross-product planning of personnel requirements and budgets within the cluster, in close coordination with other executives, the other CPOs, and the POs.
- You are responsible for the continuous development of existing processes, including the milestone planning process, structures, and guidelines within the specialized domain and in relation to dependencies on other clusters and professional domains.
- You ensure transparency and continuous communication between the necessary areas within IT (both domain-specific and technical), strategic project management, and the user side (stakeholder management).
- You create a positive environment that promotes agile values and principles, a lived error culture, and establish framework conditions that enable and ensure continuous learning within the organization.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- The basis is your successfully completed degree, preferably in STEM or Business Informatics, as well as proven experience in the IT sector, ideally with good prior knowledge of the trading environment.
Qualifications
- You stand out for your confidence in dealing with stakeholders at the top management level and act as a proactive service partner with strong communication skills and a solution-oriented approach.
- As a visionary, you look beyond the horizon with curiosity and can inspire people with your ideas.
- You are experienced in developing and implementing long-term goals and strategies, taking into account the company's objectives.
- You operate entrepreneurially in the sense of the corporation and possess business management knowledge to economically steer your area.
- You have broad IT expertise and a deeper understanding of technical systems.
- You are willing to be on-site in Cologne-Porz for approximately 3 days a week on average.
- Fluent German as well as good English skills are required.
Experience
- Additionally, you are familiar with standard systems and in-house developments (practical end-to-end experience in agile environments within a product-oriented setup).
- With your several years of relevant leadership experience, you know how to build, develop, coach, and lead highly motivated and high-performing teams.
- You have several years of experience in Product Ownership and bring expertise in modern working methods (agile, lean, etc.) as well as methodological competence.
- Relevant experience in sales and marketing for structuring topics from a business perspective is advantageous.
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What we offer
- Your life-work integration through flexible working hours, remote work, 30 days of vacation + regional cultural days, time-off models (sabbatical, caregiving leave, etc.), and company kindergarten.
- We invest in your future.
- With your annual training budget, you can learn with regard to your individual skill development.
- So stay curious and gather new input for yourself and all of us on our own learning platform, the "IT Learning Hub," at industry conferences, in technical books, or in one of the many free workshops from our Learning Canvas.
- Updates for you on in-house workshops and events, such as the hackathon and tech talks, as well as weekly stand-ups, regular tech all-hands, and open door formats.
- Your scope for creativity: Look forward to modern IT equipment as well as a broad and innovative tech stack.
- Your impact, because you develop applications and services for millions of people - with over 1 billion data records daily, on more than 6 million phones, 32,000 cash registers, or in 7,300 markets.
- Your relaxed commute with your mobility budget, a JobRad, and parking spaces right in front of the door.
- Our networks such as DITO - different together, SHINE, f.ernetzt, WomEngineers @REWE digital, and Women's Drive make us a diverse community and support you in your personal development.
- Advantages of a corporation for you, for example in the form of discounts at REWE, PENNY, toom Baumarkt, and the DERTOUR Group, comprehensive healthcare benefits, support for your retirement provision through asset-building benefits, and the REWE Pensionskasse.
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Benefits
Health, Fitness & Fun
Work-Life-Integration
- 🚌Excellent Traffic Connections
- 🐕Animals Welcome
- 🏝Extra Holidays
- 🏠Home Office
- ⏸Educational Leave/Sabbatical
- ⏰Flexible Working Hours
- 🅿️Employee Parking Space
Higher Take-Home Pay
- 🏝️Summer and Christmas Bonus
- 📱Company Phone for Private Use
- 💻Company Notebook for Private Use
- 👴🏻Company Retirement Provision
- 🛍Employee Discount
- 🚎Public Transport Allowance
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About Your Employer
REWE Digital GmbH
As drivers of the digital innovation of the REWE Group, we are responsible for all strategic online activities of one of Europe's leading trade and tourism companies. Our most important brands at home and abroad include REWE, Penny, Billa, Merkur, BIPA, ITS , DER Touristik Meier's World Travel Jahn Reisen and Toom Hardware Store.
Description
- Company Type
- Digital Agency
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Chief Product Owner Customer Relations & Sales
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
