Product Owner

Why we will love you

We are on a journey to create a new IKEA. An IKEA that is more affordable, accessible, and sustainable, and lives up to our vision of “creating a better everyday life for the many people”. To achieve this, we have a challenge; to match the needs of our customers with our co-worker’s availability in an omnichannel reality. This is the essence of what we do within People Planning at Group Digital, and we’re now looking for a Product Owner to join the team

You will belong to the Core Operational People Planning team, who’s main priority it is to secure the capabilities of scheduling and timekeeping for ~180 000 coworkers. This is managed with the help of a product portfolio of bought solutions, which are tightly connected to areas both inside and outside of People Planning. We’ve recently reshaped the organisational structure of this area and, by joining the team, you will have great opportunities to influence and form new ways of working to solve problems differently and to provide even more value for our users. For the initiatives you’ll drive you will have a close collaboration with other digital peers, vendors, business representatives, countries and end users.

We believe you share our IKEA values and are excited to join us in our journey to become the world’s leading omnichannel home furnishing retailer. Our co-workers are at the heart of this ambition and through our people-/ workforce-/ staff planning products and processes we directly impact the daily life of our co-workers and customers. We believe you enjoy a real digital challenge, in a complex area and environment where everything is changing. You thrive on working in with a dynamic and cross functional team where we solve problems for our co-workers and People Planners by developing, implementing, and maintaining bought solutions.

We believe you have experience of iterative and agile product development as well as knowledge in techniques and tools used for discovery, delivery, and continuous improvement. You have worked with managing a bought solution, preferably within the HR tech area. Preferably you have knowledge in product management tools like JIRA and Confluence. To be successful in this role we believe you have a data driven mindset and have worked with quantitative and qualitative data to define and measure success.

To be successful in your role you are:

- A person who leads by example
- In possession of strong communication skills with the ability to build strong and meaningful interpersonal relationships. You influence, listen, and collaborate successfully with variety of stakeholders in a complex organization.
- An advocate for teamwork and truly believes in the benefits coming from working together and being better together.
- A promoter and role model of IKEAs corporate identity and core values and vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people

What you'll be doing day to day

On a day-to-day basis you will act as a trusted partner and work with countries and process owners to understand the needs of the business, prioritize activities and make sure we solve the right problems in the best way. You will be responsible for the end-to-end process for a targeted user group in a specific solution, but also be involved in areas/projects stretching outside of that product, for instance on exploration or implementation. We work in close cooperation with the business in our markets to find the best match between process and tool, and here you will be a key player. The team is global with locations in Helsingborg, Sweden, and Bangalore, India.

You will ensure that we measure initiatives and deliverables against an expected outcome, and you are not shy of calling it out if an initiative needs to be stopped or redirected.

You will:

- Together with other Product Owners and Product Team Leader, set vision, strategy and metrics for the portfolio and its products.
- Manage time, cost, scope, risk, communication, quality and change for the products
- Define OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) for your product together with the team and key stakeholders. Ensure the team is aligned and working towards the same goals.
- Guide and support the team to ensure everyone is performing to the best of their ability
- Document learnings, adopt a continuous improvement approach and transfer learnings to the teams

Together as a team

At IKEA we believe in people and that we are always better together. Within Group Digital we set the digital agenda to keep IKEA leading in an uncertain and fast-moving environment. We drive the development, provision and operation of our digital products and services through the use of new and existing technology and agile delivery methods to deliver at pace. At the same time, we provide a home for digital skills to both develop and extend the technical, people and business skills needed to ensure continuous development and growth of our digital capability.

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