Agile Product Owner with a passion for HR i Sundbyberg

We are the Value Stream "HR & Payroll" and we're looking for an Agile Product Owner (APO) for one of our Cross Functional Teams (CFT). Our Stakeholder is the Group HR Director and the Heads of HR areas/ HR managers who forms the Group HR Management Team.

Our responsibility is to secure the service delivery including both development and maintenance of any IT solutions /support system they might need. We need to analyze needs, propose solutions, coordinate development activities and align with service providers/vendors and other CFT.

Our total portfolio of HR & Payroll solutions are to great extend cloud based covering processes/areas like Recruitment, Onboarding, Transfer, Off boarding, Salary/Payroll (POL by CGI & HRMS by Oracle), Time, Training/LMS (SABA by Visma), Talent, Compensation & Benefits (HCM Fusion by Oracle), Development, Business Intelligence, Reporting etc.

In the APO role, you are responsible for what to build/order and when, to maximize the value of the investments related to one or some of our stakeholder areas. Since we to a great extend work with Cloud solutions the supplier relation is very important, the development is mainly done by the external consultants.

• You secure delivery of appropriate, secure & reliable IT services throughout the life-cycle within the HR area.
• Responsible for collecting input and managing expectations from your stakeholders in order to optimize the deliveries.
• Ensure that the backlog is in place; find the best balance between new functionality, maintenance, life cycle and regulatory items.
• Manage stakeholder expectations on deliveries.
• Plan and estimate the work & deliveries together with the team and other APOs.
  
  

To be successful in this role, you need understanding & knowledge in development and maintenance of IT-solutions. You have understanding of the broad HR process domain and preferable deeper experience of some areas. You are preferably an experienced agile professional and a promotor of the agile way of working and experienced in working with external vendors. Excellent communication skills are crucial, and you find ways of adapting your communication to different stakeholders easily. Education: Preferable Academic degree in engineering, business administration or any other relevant discipline.

Critical competencies

You are able to:

• build and maintain a relationship with the Stakeholders
• communicate the product vision to team, users and stakeholders
• clearly express & define product back-log items
• optimize the value of the work the cross functional team performs
• request tasks to be added to other teams backlog
• prioritize and agree on priorities with other team's APO
• take decisions in the interest of Swedbank (balancing different needs)
• have knowledge about the HR processes
  
  

Personal qualities

• Very good communication skills & social competence (listen, ask questions, build trust)
• Customer-centric mindset
• Structured, systematic, interest in details
• Learn new things, open-minded
• Internal drive and personal efficiency
• Strong leadership skills, ability to delegate and follow-up
  
  

• Project Manager, Product Owner, Team Lead or similar
• Scrum Master or driving agile team members
• In a senior HR/Payroll role
  
  

In Swedbank we focus on internal mobility and we have a lot of interesting career possibilities For example:

• Chief Product Owner
• Cross Functional Team Manager
• Business Team Manager
• Scrum Master or Agile Coach
  
  

We are small team with a clear mission and close relation to our stakeholders. In this new organization we have room for initiatives and new ideas. We are enthusiastic about what we do and care about each other.

We may begin the selection under the application period, so we welcome your application as soon as possible.
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