Product Owner to EG Retail and Wholesale

Are you eager to join a dynamic team of Product Owners dedicated to deliver the best modules and products within Retail and Wholesale? Does working with some of the largest customers in the Nordics sound like the perfect opportunity to you?  

Join us in shaping the future of retail and wholesale. 

At EG Retail & Wholesale, we're not merely revolutionizing the industry—we're simplifying our customers world. With cutting-edge solutions and a relentless focus on customer success, we're driving growth, streamlining processes, and ensuring a seamless experience for all. In EG Retail & Wholesale we are more than 300 colleagues, all sharing the same focus and passion. With offices in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, we serve customers across the globe.

Product delivery and excellence

Within our Research & Development department we have our Product Delivery and Excellence sub-department. You will join our team of Product Owners, test management and release management resources all devoted to refining and optimizing every development phase of our product delivery pipeline. In our agile environment, we're dedicated to continuous improvement. From leveraging SCRUM events and agile tools to fostering effective collaboration techniques, we're committed to optimizing our product roadmap delivery. 

 We are strengthening our Product Owner role, who serves as a key resource between our stakeholders and the development teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment of goals.

As our Product Owner your responsibilities will be to:

• Define stories and prioritize the backlog to streamline the execution of development priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or component.
• Define and adapt product scope, maximizing backlog value, and optimizing development team's work.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, managers, and teams to understand, prioritize, and communicate needs, serving as a central point of contact for focus and conflict resolution.
• Address bugs, accommodate change orders, and oversee project delivery, to ensure that these are delivered successfully to stakeholders and ensuring the team is able to deliver work of high quality.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Manager on defining the Product Roadmap, engaging in high-level backlog refinement sessions, and assisting in shaping the product vision to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Validate the solutions being developed to ensure they meet the requirements and expectations of the stakeholders, including conducting testing, gathering feedback and making adjustments as needed.
• Report on product process, keeping the stakeholder up-to-date with changes of priorities and other types of delays.

We are constantly seeking ways to refine our processes, enhance our practices and deliver exceptional products to our customers. 

Are you skilled in the role of Product Owner and deeply motivated to deliver excellence?

In our team, our Product Owners are the masters of our products, having knowledge, cooperation and communication skills is essential for driving success. We believe that close collaboration with our stakeholders to define requirements, prioritize features, and guide the development process from concept to delivery is key to becoming a good Product Owner.

We seek an individual with a strong eager to learn and adaptability to embrace change within our industry.

Following new technology trends and modernization along with possessing most of the qualities listed below is highly valued:

• Experienced in working as a Product Owner.
• Experience with Agile methodologies including SCRUM or Kanban and skilled in using JIRA.
• Has an entrepreneur mindset: a keen eye for opportunities, focuse on business value, ROI and acts proactive on possible risks and threats.
• You have project management skills and are able to plan, organise and handle the product and development teams across areas to meet the customers’ needs.
• You have solid presentation skills and are able to effectively communicate with product management, development team, and other departments within the organization.
• Knowledge about the sales process for B2B and B2C customers, along with insights within EDI in the Building Supply industry.

What to expect from us

We have a culture of collaboration, innovation, and responsibility to meet our goals, and we strive for excellence in every aspect of our work.

We also provide: 

• Possibility of personal and professional development.
• A job with big responsibility and opportunities to grow your skills. 
• Highly engaged, skilled, and motivated colleagues to have fun with.
• Good health insurance, pension, canteen, and activities for employees.
• Possibilities to work remotely. 

You will work from our location in Gjøvik where EG Retail and Wholesale is located.

Contact

Interested in this opportunity or do you need more information – feel free to contact Senior Manager, Product Management, Marius Kristiansen by phone +47 97 74 06 24 or E-Mail: markr@eg.no. We will evaluate the applications as they come and until the right candidate is found, so please send the application and CV as soon as possible. All applications will be handled confidential.

We craft the vertical software of tomorrow, bringing sustainable impact to customers and society. We always strive to improve: We are a dedicated team of innovators and problem solvers. As an integral part of our culture, we take responsibility for our contribution to customers, each other, and the society we live in.