Director Lean Product Portfolio Planning Positioning

We offer an interesting and challenging opportunity in our international multi-site positioning product development team. The product development team serves the differentiated market needs with dedicated product lines to assure maximum business agility. The product teams are creating products by integrating features and functionality from our internal platform development team and combining them into product releases.
- As the
- **Director Lean Product Portfolio Positioning** you are leading and coaching our team of product owners. You plan and manage our product portfolio according to lean management principles and align it with the market priorities defined by our product strategy team. You are assessing ideas in the early phase and propose an execution approach in cooperation with your product owners and the head of product design and development.
- With your understanding of the dependencies and available capacities you can compile scenarios which help product strategy and the management to achieve the highest market value through our investments. In your position you coach your product owners in their role and assure constant quality of your deliveries by your inputs to our product life cycle process and release reviews.
- Because we are transforming our organization towards agile one, we welcome you as a personality with transformation skills, understanding how to lead through this change process and having outstanding servant leadership mindset and skills. You are a very important influencer and have the ability to empower people by leading by example.
- Do you like to work in an international team with multicultural background? Do you enjoy new and changing challenges? Then you will feel at home with us and we have to get in touch
- The role can be located in Espoo or Tampere, Finland or Thalwil,Switzerland.**Learn more about your future working environment within our Positioning Product Center**
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**Your Responsibilities**
- as a member of Lean Portfolio Management Team, you help to define and provide a competitive product portfolio offer according to the market needs and in agreement with product design and development as well as our platform and technology development priorities
- lead and empower the team of product owners and coach them in their role and decision-making process (servant leadership approach) incl. help to create an adequate working environment for agile way of working
- lead the team through the change process
- to improve our product life cycle process and adjust the gate review criteria according to the agreed standards
- to assure clear communication and expectation management on the deliveries and support the product owner in critical stakeholder management, escalation topics as well as in cross department co-operations
- to define clear delivery agreements and track the efforts spent
- to identify improvement in the product development process
- to assure an optimal balance of new developments, product maintenance and customer support work in the product delivery teams

**Your Skills and Experience**
- university degree in technical domain
- at least 3 years’ experience team leading
- at least 5 years’ experience in agile product development as product owner or chief product owner
- strong experience in lean portfolio management, agile project management and program management
- servant leader, who can work independently and has a customer focused orientation
- experience in leading through change process/ transformational leadership
- willingness to travel occasionally
- fluent in English (spoken and written)

**Bonus Point**
- German or Finnish language skills

**What are your perks?**
- a multicultural and international company with over 50 different nationalities
- project-based activities working with colleagues distributed across the globe
- a start-up and innovation mindset while in the process of scaling-up processes and efficiencies
- training and career growth opportunities
- company Bonus and Stock Option Plan
- sport activities and team events
- in Finland: Easy access location and modern office premises in Perkkaa, Espoo and Hervanta, Tampere
- in Finland: Good basic benefits (commuting, lunch, sports&culture etc.)
- in Switzerland: Between 25 and 30 days of vacation a year, employee insurance contribution taken over by employer and additional contribution from the company to the pension fund, participation to public transport costs
- in Switzerland: “Friday beers”, barbecue, and an amazing roof terrace
- in Switzerland: Nice location on the Zurich Lake side, 15 min away from Zurich with public transport

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