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Senior Product Owner - Purchasing Platform
·Germany
On-siteFull-timeProduct ManagementeCommerceRetailFurniture
Join a digital unit of a leading furniture retailer to shape the end-to-end supplier management platform. You will drive product vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring efficient, scalable, and future-proof procurement and supply chain operations.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategic vision, direction, and outcomes for digital supplier management across the entire supplier lifecycle.
- Develop and steer the end-to-end product strategy from supplier selection and onboarding to performance management and offboarding.
- Prioritize and drive cross-functional initiatives to standardize, digitalize, and automate supplier processes.
- Accountable for business impact at the domain level, particularly regarding data quality, compliance, and risk reduction.
- Act as the central interface to senior stakeholders (Procurement, SCM, Management), managing expectations and resolving goal and prioritization conflicts.
- Coordinate multi-year product roadmaps, dependencies, and initiatives across multiple teams, ensuring stable and scalable operations together with Engineering.
- Evaluate business cases, derive strategic investment and prioritization decisions, and define and measure business-relevant KPIs and product goals.
Requirements
- Several years of experience in digital product management with complex platforms, ideally in procurement, product lifecycle, or supply chain.
- Understanding of procurement, supplier, and supply chain processes and ability to translate them into digital solutions and products.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing product strategies and managing complex roadmaps across multiple teams.
- Solid expertise in supplier evaluation, risk management, and assessing business cases and strategic investments.
- Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills at senior and management levels.
- Combination of strategic thinking with high execution competence and strong analytical and conceptual skills.
- Ability to structure and prioritize complex topics and make clear decisions in cross-functional, international setups.
- Excellent German and English skills, both written and spoken.
Benefits
- Free coffee, tea, beverages, fresh fruit and vegetables, and subsidized meals in the canteen or meal allowances (location-dependent).
- Modern workplaces for all needs.
- Culture of ownership, flat hierarchies, and open feedback with strong team spirit.
- 2 learning days per quarter, internal learning campus, and external development opportunities.
- Flexible working hours and various remote work options.
- Team events and special recognition for birthdays and anniversaries.
- Location-specific tailored benefits.
- Annual gross salary starting at €63,000 with clear willingness to overpay based on experience and expertise.