Agile Product Owner to Team Core i Stockholm

Group Commerce was established 2017 within Group Lending and Payments with the mission to strengthen Swedbank´s offering of bundled payment solutions to merchants. This means delivery of competitive, reliable, and high quality products in different channels across POS – in store, E/M-commerce (= OMNI channels). The BIO organization is responsible for efficient contribution of deliveries in close collaboration with Product specialists, according to set strategies.

The Commerce business is becoming more and more global and is in constant change. Although Swedbank has a leading card acquiring position in Sweden and the Baltics, there are significant opportunities for growth within the E-com channels. In order to address the E-com channels and strengthen the position Swedbank acquired the company PayEx in August 2017. The acquisition complements Swedbank's strong acquiring offering with PSP, checkout and retail finance capabilities. With these components we hold the base of a strong offering regardless of payment channel.

Swedbank is the fifth largest card acquirer in Europe and has a solid market position in Sweden and in the Nordics/Baltics. The product is distributed through different Payment Service Providers (PSPs), including our own PayEx One offering, as well as through our own sales channels and distribution network. In a role as Agile Product Owner (APO), you will be responsible for what to build/deliver/maintain and to maximize the value of the investment opportunity and the work of the cross functional teams (CFT). In the role you will act as APO for one out of five CFT´s in the Commerce BIO area.

Main activities of the CFTs are to:

• Develop and maintain the core card acquiring systems such as Base24, PRM, Zachi, TMS, Babs Access , BPM Babs Onboarding
• Ensure stable and high quality deliveries as well as continuous stability of the systems and services managed by the team.
• Ensure contribution to problem, incident and crisis management 

Your assignment comprises

• Prioritize and manage backlog in order to maximize value for the users and customers; decide when there is enough value to release to production together with stakeholders
• Ensure that the backlog is in place in collaboration with the business analysts in the CFT teams: that items are created, acceptance criteria’s are defined and items are understandable for the team
• Ensure that agreed investments opportunities/MVPs from the value stream roadmap are delivered
• Responsibility to assure prioritization so that there is a healthy balance between new functionality, maintenance and life cycle
• Plan and estimate the work together with the team
• Expectation management towards stakeholders including establishing, maintaining and communicating prognosis of what will be done and when.
• In collaboration with the Chief Product owner (CPO), ensure there is efficient process and solution in place for transparent stakeholder request management, planning and communication
• Act as team player in the cross functional team and constantly improve the way of working
• Collaborate with other team and APO´s in order to secure value stream joint deliveries.
• Ensure that IT services are aligned with the Target Architecture and Business Domain Architecture and strategies as well as Wanted Position.
  
  

The ideal candidate has/is:

• People management skills
• Communication management skills
• Self-driven, gives and takes responsibility
• Experience from the card acquiring/issuing area and, hence deep insights and understanding of the business.
• Collaborative inside and outside of the team
• Experience from working in or together with agile teams
• Proficient in oral and written English
• A relevant university degree or similar work experience
  
  

• Product manager or project manager
• Product owner
• Business system manager
  
  

• Team manager
• CPO
• Other managerial role
  
  

Swedbank is the fifth largest card acquirer in Europe and has a solid market position in Sweden and in the Nordics/Baltics. Working with us will have the opportunity to work with services impacting a very large number of customers; merchants as well as end-customers.

You will work together with a cross functional teams with extensive knowledge, skills and experience in the services around acquiring such as card authorization, terminals etc. You will take part in the journey towards an agile way of working, which just started. The CFT´s consists of software engineers, application specialists and business analysts sitting in Sweden and Vilnius. Everyone with focus on deliveries of new development as well as high availability of applications - all with a helpful and collaborative atmosphere in the teams. You will also have a very close collaboration with the product specialists, as well as other key stakeholders in the commerce area and we can guarantee a high pace, challenges but most of all – a great deal of fun!

As a manager I am open, engaged and caring. I believe in collaboration and that 1+1 makes 3. My role is to support you and the team so you are able to do your best. Positive energy and a solution-oriented atmosphere are key components for a good working climate. It is important to have fun at work.