Product Owner - Robotics & Automation

Digital & Technology Team (D&T) is an integral division of HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center. We are committed to making Heineken the most connected brewery. That includes digitalizing and integrating our processes, ensuring best-in-class technology, and embedding a data-driven culture. By joining us you will work in one of the most dynamic and innovative teams and have a direct impact on building the future of Heineken!

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The Product Owner (PO) role is part of the Robotics & Automation product team. As PO, you are end to end accountable for the Automation product, meaning governance, development and delivery of automation solutions and all services around it. The Automation product includes UiPath and the functional side of Microsoft Power Automate. You own the product vision, strategy and roadmap of the product and team, and the financial health of the product. The PO represents the voice of the customer and is responsible to ensure alignment with all relevant stakeholders. These stakeholders vary from rather operational stakeholders to more strategic stakeholders.  

Your responsibilities would include:

• being accountable for the end-to-end development and delivery of the product
• working with business/end users to establish, maintain, and refine product requirements and the product backlog
• building a product vision: defining, owning and communicating the product vision and roadmap
• owning the user experience, understanding end-user business value, and prioritizing accordingly
• creating, maintaining, and managing the product budget
• acting as the primary point of contact between stakeholders and the development team
• aligning with Global Information Security scope and ensuring a secured environment (patching, upgrading, migrating, etc.) for this function
• managing partner relations and contracts in support of the delivery of the product
• being responsible and accountable for maximizing the value of Automation within the organization. This value can range from security compliance, efficient delivery through automation and pipelines to growing adoption on the platforms
• governing and enabling federated teams and business developers by means of self-service concepts and providing guardrails, automation and observability capabilities to increase time to market of integrations.

You are a good candidate if you have:

• bachelors or master’s degree in IT/computer science related studies

• 5+ years experience as a product owner or similar role

• experience in an agile environment, preferably functioning in a product team running SCRUM or Kanban

• an entrepreneurial mind-set and an ability to connect with internal and external audiences including senior management

• good understanding of automation platforms like UiPath & Power Automate 

• familiarity/experience with low code applications, automations and copilot, both on development and governance set up

• stakeholder management skills

• experience in a complex international environment 

• proven experience in managing global teams, creating a trusted, business-focused mindset, and developing secure design strategies for related services.

You are a perfect match if you also have:

• PSPO certification
• experience managing budgets
• experience in a complex/multinational environment
• experience with the Power Platform.