RPA Product Lead - IT (m/f/d)
Thessaloniki, GREECE Marketing
Job description
Kuehne + Nagel Group is one of the world's leading logistics companies. Its strong market position lies in the Road Logistics, Sea Logistics, Air Logistics and Freight Logistics, with a clear focus on providing IT-based supply chain management services. We are now are seeking to hire RPA Product Lead
Your Role
The RPA Product Lead owns all the responsibilities associated with the development of RPA and has to collaborate with the counterparts on BU/FU side as well as the product team and delegate the workload according to the team needs. Together with BU/FU counterparts the Prodcut Lead (PL) ensures that quality products are delivered in time and, most importantly, that RPA creates value for K+N. The PL is empowered to make decisions about automations and therefore, together with the BU/FU, the PL will clarify the product backlog items and decide which items to do. The PL & BU/FU, must make all the decisions about the product by knowing the business needs and expectations. In addition to the significant delivery responsibilities, the PL is also expected to establish a strong network and relationships, not only internally within the team, but also with the broader customer, stakeholder and management groups relevant to the product. The PL must have a clear understanding of the competition and future trends of the automation techniques in the marketYour Responsibilities
- Set the goals and create the product vision and documentation
- Create the implementation strategy: architecture, quality, sustainability and maintainability
- Maintain the product backlog, managing requirements and tasks that need to be done by the team
- Prioritize the work according to the OKRs of the product to ensure the product vision is met
- Develop a release plan and product roadmap and ensure that everyone involved have a common understanding about the product development
- Provide the best return on investment of their product and negotiate financial targets and expected key results for the product
- Responsible for all economic and financial decision-making during the development of a release of the product
- Ability and empowerment to adjust time, scope and quality according to the business needs or for needed technical developments within the approved budget. Cost and benefit should be a key factor to determine the order of the work
- Motivate the team and seek feedback. They coordinate all questions of the team and listen to suggestions about adding, deleting, changing, or improving the product. They represent the customer, user and strategic stakeholders of the product to the team
- Define the objectives and key results needed to realize the vision of the product and to paid in the objectives of the product group
- Define suitable business KPIs to measure the benefit/value of the product. Together with the Product Lead BU they track and report financial KPIs to the product group level
- Keep an eye on all aspects of the product, the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), positive ROI results and the time to market
- Have to find the right balance between necessary technical tasks (e.g. Security, Refactoring or Documentation) and feature developments
- Exchange with other PLs and agree on common methods. As many products are dependent on other products, the PL is also constantly in alignment with other PLs in terms of product vision, product strategy and product roadmap
- Constantly monitor the market and observe what our competitors do in the field of IT with respect to the product. The PL should look at products and be able to tell what is good, what is inspiring and what can be improved
Your Skills and Experiences
- Master in computer science or similar degree & proven experience in managerial role (2+ years)
- Highly motivated and fully engaged in the development of the product
- Hands-on, result and solution oriented character
- Understanding the target and customer needs. Strong business knowledge to lead the team and product development while coordinating with all the stakeholders
- Able to develop good relationships with internal customers and third party suppliers
- Excellent communicator who can work collaboratively across many different roles and functions. Should be able to communicate the product vision, align people and stakeholders, focus their efforts, and motivate the team
- High emotional intelligence to help collaborate and successfully shape product development
- Able to create products that delight customers. While it is important to listen to the stakeholders and change the backlog accordingly, it is also important to listen to the customer and discover their needs
- Looking ahead about additional features and functionality which would be helpful. Always look at the broader picture
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with high level of written and spoken English