Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- Product
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Bad Hersfeld
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop digital logistics products, manage the product backlog, prioritize requirements, and enhance collaboration between IT, business units, and agile teams to optimize our parcel logistics processes.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Do you want to shape the digital future of our logistics processes and make a real impact in parcel logistics? Then become part of GLS Germany IT and help us make our product work even more modern, transparent, and effective.
- In the field of Product Management Operations, you work at the interface between IT, Product Management, business units, and operational teams.
- Together with agile teams, you develop IT products that support our core operational business and actively drive the digital transformation of GLS.
- Assumption of professional responsibility for IT products within the scope of our parcel logistics processes.
- Close coordination with stakeholders from IT, business units, operations, and international interfaces.
- Development of the product vision and roadmap as well as the further development of the respective product domain.
- Maintenance and management of the Product Backlog, formulation of requirements, and prioritization based on benefit, feasibility, and business value.
- Translation of technical requirements into user stories to establish a common understanding within the team.
- Structuring complex topics as well as supporting the team in setting the right priorities.
- Creating transparency about progress and value contribution through KPIs, as well as deriving improvements from them.
- Driving process optimization, tooling, and standards in product management.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- A good understanding of complex IT system landscapes and digital business processes.
- Strength in stakeholder management and enjoyment in bringing together different perspectives.
- A structured, analytical, and pragmatic working style.
- Strong communication skills in German and English.
- Knowledge in logistics, transportation, or courier, express, and parcel (CEP) services is helpful but not mandatory.
Experience
- Several years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, Requirements Engineer, or in a comparable IT-related role.
- Experience in an agile software or product environment, ideally with Scrum or Kanban.
- Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, or comparable solutions is a plus.
- You have experience in the safe and responsible use of AI tools in daily work and know where AI provides support—and where professional judgment remains crucial.
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What we offer
- People with severe disabilities are given preference in hiring if they are equally suitable.
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Benefits
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This is your employer
General Logistics Systems Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
As one of the leading parcel service providers in Germany, we see it as our responsibility to offer our customers top quality. This is ensured by over 8,000 employees nationwide who give their best at around 70 locations. Every year we send over 600 million parcels across Europe thanks to their work.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Logistics, Transportation
Product Owner - Product Management Operations
- Location
- Bad Hersfeld
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
