Product Owner eCommerce

In this role, you have the opportunity to Enable the eCommerce experience, engagement and conversion, shaping and responsible to bring live a new initiative around eCommerce capabilities for the direct "digital to consumer" channel of Philips.

You are responsible for

- Designing new capabilities as an extension of the Philips direct to consumer channel for the products offered by Philips (directly or brand licenses like TV and Hue).

- Leading the business D2C squads of developers using the following technology (e.g. AEM, Hybris, SAP, etc.).

- Managing multiple multi-tiered stakeholders around the business including commercial, IT, enabling capabilities, Finance, PMO, and others

- Negotiating priority with relevant Product Owners and/or Delivery Managers: serving as the flight coordinator, managing the timings of the features for multiple products/modules of different complexity, delivered typically by multiple teams on multiple platforms. When necessary bring certain conflicts of interest to a decision-making governance body.

- Understand an end-to-end context - and where necessary challenge - the feature and changes requested by other Product Owners and delivery stakeholder.

- Demand and assess clear prioritization artifacts as a prerequisite with a feature or change request coming from stakeholders

- Create and align a product vision for the new capabilities being setup incl. MVP, and on-going evolution.

- Manage feature roadmap for the front- and backend features for all respective processes and collaborate with peers to ensure end to end view

- Facilitate inter-squad dependencies in the respective sprints

- Participate in team demo and retrospectives: work with other product owners to organize feature demos session, creating and presenting demos for his/her scope to the known stakeholders

- Inspect and Adapt - Works with teams to define & implement continuous improvement stories

- Just In Time (JIT) Story Elaboration: Elaborate user stories for the squad prior to planning, during implementation

- Investigate refer/resolve bugs that are reported for the website

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

- Bachelor, Master or comparable practical experience

- Minimum 7 to 10 years of professional experience

- A background in b2c commerce (incl. experience with commerce engines) is a plus

- Agile proficiency and familiar with multiple frameworks and ways of working. Profound knowledge on dealing with dependencies and prio-settings

- Experience in managing teams in an agile (marketing) environment preferred

- Superior analysis, research, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Experience in analyzing data & statistics and translate to data driven approach.

- Know how to test and learn effectively and define MVPs

- Fluency in Business English

- Substantial facilitation skills and stakeholder management skills

- Business domain knowledge: Has knowledge to advise clients and make most independent decisions (incl. requirements)

- Able to flourish in a high organizational complex environment with multiple agile teams to liaise with

- Proven experience in building and transforming an organization from people, tooling, data and process

- Identify and manage continuous improvements and innovation of the platform

- Acts as a role-model for our Philips behaviors: Customer first, Quality & Integrity always, Team up to Win, Take Ownership to deliver fast, Eager to improve and inspire.

- Cultivates Innovation and is a change agent to drive the digital and agile transformation

- Ability to interpret and report on performance and make recommendations to business stakeholders.

- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks across multiple projects.

- Must be detailed oriented, but keeps high-level overview on main goals in parallel

- Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and non-technical ways at various levels within the company

- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects at once

- Commercial and Negotiation skills (wrt Contract Management)