Product Owner

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

As Product Owner, you are part of a team responsible for experimenting with cutting-edge technologies, delivering solutions by testing and learning and developing strong partnerships to enable growth through innovation and agile methodologies.

How you will contribute

• Gain a deep understanding of product and users in order to make effective decisions
• Provide the product vision and direction to the team & stakeholders
• Translate high level requirements into detailed user stories with acceptance criteria
• Act as primary liaison between stakeholders and development team, to answer queries in a timely fashion
• Prioritise work and deliver to tight timescales, demonstrating good organisational, communication and administrative skills
• Be responsible for producing, maintaining, and prioritising the Product Backlog.
• Conduct story writing workshops with the end user at the start of each roll out, collaboratively write user stories and agree on acceptance criteria.
• Work with design review boards and community of practice teams for development & testing review sessions.
• Develop a deep understanding of the teams requirements and act as a proxy between the stakeholders and development team to effectively progress development solutions.
• Work in close partnership with the development team, participating in sprint planning and making decisions when re-prioritisation or requirement changes arise.
• Act as owner/champion for the product, setting appropriate product development methods, tools and techniques.
• Liaise with the users and internal stakeholders, act as advocate for the business.

What you will bring

The ideal candidate will have a strong balance of technical skills and experience and the behavioural competencies that we believe are key to success in the role. Specifically we’re looking for someone who has:

• A passion for technology and creating products that people want to use.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment
• Strong analytical, problem solving, planning, and organisational skills.
• Strong project management skills to ensure that products are delivered on time, to budget and to agreed levels of quality.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills – your role will involve lots of communication tasks; from articulating your vision, documenting product knowledge, engaging people internally and externally to running workshops and demos.
• Excellent team and relationship-building skills, with both internal and external parties engineers, operational leads business stakeholders, etc.).
• Experience in implementing change initiatives and leading change.

More about this role

Work schedule: 100%

The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland .

At Mondelez Europe, we are proud, not only of the iconic brands we make, but also of the people who make them. Our delicious products are created in 52 plants across Europe by more than 28,000 passionate people. We are the top maker of chocolate and biscuits and a leading maker of gum and candy. We make sure our powerful global brands and local jewels like Cadbury , Milka and Alpen Gold chocolates, Oreo , belVita , LU and Tuc biscuits, and Stimorol and Dirol gums get safely into our customers hands—and mouths. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.