Product Owner

at  Danfoss

JOB DESCRIPTION

Join Danfoss as a Sr. Product Owner in our Data, Analytics, and Incubation team within Global Digital & IT. Play a pivotal role in driving the strategic direction of our BI data and business analytics organizational products for sales, sales operations, customer service, digital customer experience, pricing, and One CRM business management groups.
As a Product Owner, you will bring your expertise to enhance our reporting, drive efficiency, and facilitate collaboration with diverse teams and senior management across all of Danfoss.

Looking for a self-motivated individual with the ability to:

• Develop and maintain relationships through accountability, change management, and expectation setting.
• Lead with influence through ambiguity and maintain a positive attitude.
• Willingness to pivot individuals based on incremental progress and new developments.
• Desire to learn about new tools, systems, and processes.
• Ability to identify strategic approaches that remove impediments to completing work.

If you have a passion for driving digital transformation and have the skills and experience outlined above, we invite you to join our team.

BACKGROUND & SKILLS

At Danfoss, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a broader perspective in decision-making. When you consider this job posting, do you feel like your profile is not a perfect match? Numerous studies have found that women and people of color are more likely to apply only when they meet all requirements listed in the job posting. Even if you do not check all the boxes, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are curious to find out how you can bring new insights to the role or to Danfoss as an organization.

The ideal candidate possesses these skills.

• Five plus years of experience working as product owner or similar role with a preference towards degrees in business administration, sales, marketing, operations management, economics, or similar.
• Furthermore, you need:
• Excellent collaboration skills in a global organization with personal, professional, and cultural diversity.
• Proven ability to build a unified product strategy based on facilitating stakeholder collaboration, gaining business trust, and securing buy-in from senior leaders across the organization.
• Proactive drive to interact with stakeholders as advisor and sparring partner to influence decisions and to ensure governance and aligned prioritizations.
• Strong experience in user experience reporting design and ingrained understanding of what a good experience feels like.
• Understanding of Agile principles, Azure DevOps, Salesforce, SAP reporting, and Microsoft reporting tools.
• Strong communication skills, including conflict management, emotional intelligence, and change management techniques, that fosters a positive culture of continuous improvement.
• Can do attitude that anticipates customer centric solutions, seeks to understand, and demonstrates frontline passion for our customer needs.
• Extensive business knowledge, with a preference towards data analytics in the commercial operation management areas.

Responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following.

• Product Owner is to maximize the value of the product. This involves close alignment with stakeholders, defining and prioritizing the backlog, streamlining the execution of priorities, and ensuring the conceptual integrity and adoption of the product.
• Collaborate and confirm clear communication with stakeholders, including business teams, development teams and support functions to define, drive, and align the strategic roadmap for Sales, Sales Operations, Customer Service, Digital Customer Experience, Pricing, and One CRM with organizational goals.
• Build and communicate product vision, progress, and priorities to stakeholders and the IT Teams using digital tools provided by operational team and communication support groups.
• Understand business needs, pain points, and processes in business management reporting development to ensure the usability, effectiveness, and alignment with end-user expectations.
• Prioritize backlog items based on business value for the organization with guidance by business leaders and subject matter experts.
• Work closely with stakeholders and communications colleagues to develop onboarding tools, guidelines, and policies around tool utilization.
• Ensure continuous product delivery and timely support.
• Foster cultural of collaboration and open feedback with business while offering professional advice on reporting tools and methodologies that focus on documented business needs.
• Develop and maintain high quality in BI logics and principles, focus on standardized and scalable output and be able to translate this knowledge to relevant stakeholders in understandable way.