Are you experienced Product Owner ready to take up new challenges? Are you interested in solutions delivered in areas of Servers and end user devices?

Arla is looking for a Product Owner to join the End-user Team in Digital Services & Infrastructure Agile Release Train. The team interacts with a wide range of stakeholders delivering various end-user solutions towards Arlas customers and vendors. 

Welcome to Global Shared Services in Gdansk

Arla is a global farmer-owned organisation that is behind many well-known and loved brands, including Arla Apetina®, Castello®, Lurpak® and many, many more.

As a Product Owner, you become a part of our Global Shared Services in Gdansk. Here, you won’t find factory machines or farmers. Instead, you will join over 600 colleagues dedicated to supporting all of Arla with IT, HR, financial and procurement operations. Joining us, you will take part in our mission to make a real difference for colleagues near and far.

With over 15 years of existence in Gdansk, we offer you a lot of knowledge and the opportunity to partake in challenging and exciting innovation projects. As a part of the Arla organisation, you will also enjoy a Scandinavian, collaborative work culture. We are all on first name terms with each other, and we truly appreciate diversity and individuality.

About the job

We are looking for a value driven and proactive Product Owner, with a high focus on deliverables and bringing value to the business and responsible for setting the direction for our solutions. You will be working in a complex stakeholder environment, spanning different cultures. Thus, you have great facilitation skills and thrive engaging with people of different cultures and from various backgrounds

Specifically, your responsibilities include:

• Having close collaboration with the teams to ensure the approach always bring Minimum Viable Product to the Business Owners
• Proactively contributing to the build / maintenance of the roadmaps for the end-user computing area.
• Collaboration with the Product Management and Business Owner on setting the direction for the End-user area.
• Participating in team meetings –daily scrum, iteration planning and bring continuous improvement to the team and ways of working
• Engaging and ensuring alignment to the Business Owners through stakeholder management
• Helping the team to produce high value products
• Monitoring and reporting progress through demos and interaction
• Forecasting follow-up and updates

To be successful in the role, you:

• Have experience with developing solutions that improves the end user experience when engaging our IT operations
• Are focused and persistent on achieving goals by the ability to ensure the teams, product owners, program management team and business have a great collaboration.

• Have a degree within IT
• Are creative and having the ability to help the team to develop innovative solutions
• Have an experience in working in similar area would be a plus
• Are comfortable with learning new technologies and challenging things for the better
• Have good communication skills - you have easy dialogue, both verbally, in writing and visually with stakeholders
• Have experience with IT program/project management from previous  jobs
• Have experience Working in an agile setup – preferably SAFe would be a plus
• Are experienced with people management – it would be a plus
• Speak and write English effortlessly

What do we offer?

• International operating environment  
• Medical care & life insurance  
• Additional benefits like gym card, vouchers, travel points or cinema tickets, etc. 

• Scandinavian working style & no dress code 
• Trainings with experts & professional induction in a new position 
• Development programs (function additions, coordinator programme) 
• Financial support of your education  
• Relocation package 

• Referral program for employees 
• Employee Assistance Program (legal, psychological, health, financial consulting, etc. ) 
• Support for your healthy lifestyle (fruit day, facility for sportsmen, sport challenges and activities, Arla active teams / sport groups) 
• Flexible working time (start your day of work between 7-9) and home office work possibility 
• Additional holiday depending on length of employment (up to 4 days) 

• Fully paid 30 min. break  

… while in the office you can also use some of below:  

• Modern office space with beautiful view and high standard furniture (i.e. adjustable desks) 
• Spacious canteen, delicious coffee and tea available on every floor in special designed spots 
• Chill-out rooms with X-box, pool table, board games, football table and swing 

Application and contact

If you want to drive innovation and help your colleagues worldwide, then seize this exciting opportunity and apply.

We have a purpose for Good 

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?