Do you want to be part of the technological transformation at one of the largest banks in the Nordics?

The Product Manager is a servant leader who, within a VDE (Value Delivery Engine) Train, is responsible for securing and supporting building of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products that meet customer needs and generate business value over the product/service market lifecycle. Be accountable for IT Service Portfolio Management for the Train.

In Swedbank you have the opportunity to:

• Securing the delivery of appropriate, secure, and reliable IT services throughout the life cycle in accordance with internal and external regulations, standards, and relevant Swedbank strategies

• Together with the RTE manage dependencies and deliverables in collaboration with other VDEs, vendors and other relevant parties.

• Develop, maintain, prioritize and follow up ART vision and roadmap

• Escalate unmitigated risks and backlog issues to relevant forums

• Ensure that APOs align with the prioritization done

• Provide input about future product development to relevant managers to ensure the ART has the right competences and resources

• Participate in different ART events, e.g. I&A, PI-Planning, ART Refinement, ART Sync meetings, system demos

• Participate in refining epics and features

• Participate in prioritizing epics and features for the ART, have content authority on program backlog and, if needed, also "veto-right" on the same in the ART Management Team.

• Contribute to relevant strategy work and ensure alignment towards Strategic Direction and Swedbank Strategies in collaboration with portfolio management

• Manage stakeholder expectations regarding deliveries

• Adherence to relevant established processes & frameworks

• Ensure delivery of potentially shippable products/services iteratively and incrementally, maximizing opportunities for feedback.

• Ensure that current and future competence and capacity needs are known and communicated to relevant stakeholders both within the Delivery and Competence organizations.

What is needed in this role:

Competence requirements

Education: Academic degree in either engineering, business administration, any other relevant discipline or proven work experience in the field

Work experience:

• Extensive experience from working with agile product management with relevant agile tools
• Extensive experience leading others
• Good understanding of software development and maintenance
• Experience with cyber security would be a plus, or alternatively experience with IT Service Management, IT Infrastructure such as Networks or Cloud

Agile way of working:

• Extensive experience in agile way of working and knowledge of relevant Swedbank agile development process
• Excel in effective program backlog management
• Experience in product discovery techniques

General skills:

• Strong ability to take on a holistic approach (optimizing for Swedbank as a whole)
• Excel in communication towards the ART, portfolio management, and other senior stakeholders

What we offer when you join us:

• An open, simple and caring culture.
• Opportunity to create the best experience for our customers.
• An international, sustainable and inclusive work environment.
• Development opportunities and advancement in your career.
• Flexible working options.
• Access to Group performance program, company pension plan, optional health insurance, and other benefits.

"Join our team and... 

be a part of an international team of professionals, who are jointly delivering challenging projects, maximizing customer value and increasing Swedbank’s competitive advantage." Nima Ghorbani, your future manager 

We look forward to receiving your application by 20.09.2023. 

Location: Sundbyberg, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius

Contacts

Recruiting manager: Nima Ghorbani, +46 72 573 75 33

SACO: Henrik Joelsson

Finansförbundet: Jonas Nyström, +46 8 585 946 52

If you are employed in Estonia, please note that the salary offered for this position ranges from 4600-6900 EUR gross i.e. before taxes. Read more here. 

If you are to be employed in Latvia, please note that the salary offered for this position ranges from 4500-6700 EUR gross i.e. before taxes. Read more here.

If you are to be employed in Lithuania, please note that the salary offered for this position ranges from 5550-8350 EUR gross i.e. before taxes. Read more here. 

We want to inform you that the selection process may begin after the summer holidays.

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Swedbank does not discriminate anybody based on gender, age, sexual orientation or sexual identity, ethnicity, religion or disability – everybody is welcome.