Product Owner Services – IT job in Netherlands

Your role:
As a Services Product Owner, you are continuously looking for new opportunities in the market and you investigate how value can be added for residents, entrepreneurs or visitors. You translate new ideas into concrete products and apps together with the client and the scrum team in co-creation. Every day you work together with colleagues in the scrum team, where you determine the prioritization and the work inventory together with the Business Owner for the team of designers and functional managers. You are the bridge between the resident and our software solutions.

• The Product Owner translates the offered (IT) solution into practical implementation on the work floor.
• The Product Owner knows the back end of the various systems and their interrelationships better than anyone else
• The Product Owner sees opportunities and can translate them into requirements that the scrum teams can work on.
• The Product Owner monitors this process so that the output delivered meets the wishes of the customer/market and represents the customer’s interests.
• The Product Owner, together with the business, helps the scrum team during testing phases and the implementation of new or updated systems and ensures the transfer of information to the work floor/end user.

Sector head Barbara Crützen; There is a need for insight and overview. And this in a culture of continuous improvement. Our residents must be able to count on a service that is fast, simple and convenient. Many of the improvements have a digital component, prioritizing, but especially realizing concrete solutions is a challenge where I see a major and especially practical role for the Product Owner.

Who do you do that with?
The Product Owner works together with the management, with the Product Owners of the various disciplines, with the Business Owner and with colleagues from I&B.

This is what you bring:

• You have completed studies at HBO or WO level and at least a number of years of experience as a Product Owner or Scrum Master;
• You have an affinity with the municipal market and specifically with services;
• You have experience with Agile working methods;
• You have a proactive attitude, you are enterprising and show initiative.
• You are strongly focused on achieving results and quality;
• You are enthusiastic, analytical and technically strong;
• You have good communication skills and can convince people of your position;
• You can work well together and have experience with stakeholder management.

Perhaps you do not yet have experience in one of the above competencies, but do you see yourself working as a Product Owner? We would also like to invite you to respond to this vacancy. Together with you, we will look at how we can support you to grow in the role.

What do we offer?
With a job that allows you to have an impact on the city and the municipality of Eindhoven. And an informal organizational culture, where attention is paid to a good work and private balance. You can also count on the employment conditions below.

• A gross monthly salary between €3,558 and €5,247 based on a 36-hour working week. The exact salary is tailored to the education, knowledge and experience you bring; SCALE 10
• One year contract. If we are satisfied on both sides, it will be converted into a permanent contract;
• 27 vacation days per year (if you work full-time). In addition, you can build up ADV days and take a total of approximately 10 weeks of leave per year. If you work part-time, this is of course pro rata;
• On top of your salary you will receive our Individual Choice Budget of 17.05%. This means that 17.05% of your gross monthly salary is reserved for you every month. You can, for example, use this to purchase days of leave or for a bicycle allowance. You can also have this budget paid out (partly);
• We will fully reimburse your journey by public transport. Are you traveling by car? Then we have a travel allowance of €0.23 per (commuting distance) kilometer from 7.5 km to 40 km one way. Are you coming by bicycle/e-bike or on foot? Then we reimburse €0.23 per km without maximum. And for every day that you work completely from home, you also receive compensation;
• A wide range of courses and training through the Eindhoven Academy;
• Hybrid working: a nice mix of working at one of our locations or from home. We offer (home) work facilities to make your workplace safe and healthy. And for every day that you work completely from home, you receive compensation;
• Free fruit in our buildings and €20 per month discount on a sports subscription at an affiliated gym;
• Access to the digital version of the Eindhovens Dagblad and 8 hours per year to participate in social activities that contribute to the city.

Curious about all our employment conditions? View https://www.werkenvooreindhoven.nl/over-ons/ Arbeidsvoorwaarden

If you are an internal applicant, you are already familiar with the employment conditions and the entire text may not apply to you.

What do you stand for?
Eindhoven is the city of innovation, technology, design and, above all, the future. In the heart of our fast-growing city, we work energetically with more than 2,700 colleagues to create a great city in which to live, work and recreate. We stand together for our city with involved residents, partners and social agencies.

Hybrid working is possible for most functions, including this position. Employees will therefore work less from the office and more online. This means less travel time and travel. Do you bring the right expertise, but do you live a little further away? Then we cordially invite you to respond to this great substantive challenge!

We find diversity and inclusion very important. There is room for everyone with us. We are happy with the differences between our employees. We prefer to have them as large as those in our city and region. Because it is precisely because we are different that we realize our big plans together. Would you like to know what it is like to work with us? Then read the stories of our employees at www.werkenvooreindhoven.nl.

Apply?
You can respond until April 14 2024. If you have any questions about the procedure or employment conditions, you can contact Joost van den Eijnden on 06-24502432. Do you have any substantive questions? Ellen Peters, head of OOD department, is happy to assist you on 06-51108169. In the context of our ‘Equal opportunities policy’ and our objective selection procedure, the motivation letter is no longer part of our selection process.

We do not appreciate acquisition.