You’ll be focused in:
• Acting as the bridge between business stakeholders/process owners and IT delivery teams, ensuring alignment on priorities, objectives and expected outcomes.
• Understanding business processes, challenges and opportunities, and ensuring correct translation into clear and actionable requirements.
• Managing and prioritizing the IT product backlog based on business value, strategic priorities and delivery capacity.
• Ensure correct definition and refinement of user stories, requirements and acceptance criteria together with business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Facilitating discussions and decision-making across different stakeholder groups, balancing competing needs and priorities.
• Providing transparency on progress, risks, dependencies and delivery plans.
• Identifying opportunities to improve business processes and maximize the value delivered by the Team and related digital solutions.
• Supporting Agile ways of working and fostering collaboration, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Working closely with SAP functional experts, developers and other IT professionals throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure successful solution implementation.
• Coaching and training team members and stakeholders in organization techniques and processes.
In order to succeed, you'll need
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience as Product Owner, Project Manager, Process Owner or similar business and IT-facing role.
• Experience working closely with business stakeholders and technical teams in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of how business requirements are translated into IT solutions and delivered through Agile methodologies.
• Experience managing and prioritizing backlogs, requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Experience creating and refining user stories, business requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation and communication skills.
• Ability to influence decisions and build alignment across different business areas.
• Resilience and professional maturity to remain effective in situations involving ambiguity, changing priorities and challenging discussions.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple/competing priorities simultaneously.
• Knowledge of system supported business processes.
• Ability to navigate international and cross-functional teams.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on simplifying processes and increasing business value.
• Strong proficiency in English, both written and spoken
Nice to Have
•Experience working with SAP solutions and processes.
• Understanding of end-to-end ERP process integration.
• Practical experience working in Agile environments using Scrum and Kanban principles.
• Experience using collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with change management and organizational transformation activities.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent
- Experience as a Product Owner, Project Manager, Process Owner, or in a similar business and IT-facing role
- Experience working with business stakeholders and technical teams in complex environments
- Strong understanding of translating business requirements into IT solutions through Agile methodologies
- Experience managing and prioritizing backlogs, requirements, and stakeholder expectations
- Experience creating and refining user stories, business requirements, and acceptance criteria
- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, and communication skills
- Ability to influence decisions and build alignment across business areas
- Resilience and professional maturity in ambiguous or changing situations
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities
- Knowledge of system-supported business processes
- Ability to work across international and cross-functional teams
- Continuous improvement mindset focused on simplifying processes and increasing business value
- Strong written and spoken English proficiency
- Experience working with SAP solutions and processes
- Understanding of end-to-end ERP process integration
- Practical experience with Agile environments using Scrum and Kanban
- Experience using Jira and Confluence
- Familiarity with change management and organizational transformation
What We Do
Volkswagen Group Digital Solutions supports the Volkswagen Group's IT needs along the entire digital value chain, driving digital transformation, software, and innovation within the automotive ecosystem.
