Sanoma is an innovative and agile learning and media company impacting the lives of millions every day. Our learning products and services enable teachers to develop the talents of every child to reach their full potential. We offer printed and digital course materials as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary and vocational education, and want to continue to grow our business across Europe. Our Finnish media business provides independent journalism and engaging entertainment and will also do so for generations to come. Our unique cross-media position offers the widest reach and tailored marketing solutions for our business partners. Our 2021 net sales totaled EUR 1.3 billion and we employ approximately 4,800 professionals. Sanoma shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.
More information is available at www.sanoma.com.
We are currently looking for a…
Lead Product Owner for Marketing & Sales applications
You will work closely with the Product Management, Marketing & Sales and Integration teams as well as other business stakeholders. In this role, we expect you to have technical understanding of solutions of the Marketing & Sales domain to drive it to the next level with the domain development teams. We also expect you to have managerial experience and a proven track in leading change in larger entities as well as projects. This position reports to the Manager FrontOffice Solutions and is part of the FrontOffice Solutions team responsible for Sanoma Learning’s business applications.
In this role you are responsible for the Marketing & Sales IT area. You will be leading a growing team of business analysts and application specific Product Owners located in different Sanoma Learning countries. Furthermore, you define stories and prioritize the team backlog, while ensuring that development follows the strategy and maintains the conceptual and technical integrity of the features. You are also helping product management to determine domain vision, scope and roadmap in collaboration stakeholders.
Our candidate has relevant experience and is responsible for the Marketing & Sales domain, which includes knowledge of CRM and commercial processes. A professional with enthusiasm to drive change to lead the team towards the best possible solutions. Applying managerial skills to build the Marketing & Sales domain, responsible of delivering the right things at the right time.
What we are not looking for is a marketing or sales professional. This role is not about increasing sales, finding leads, planning the marketing actions or improving our product according to customer feedback. This position is in Technology and the Lead Product Owner leads development of marketing & sales platforms in order to better serve our internal marketing & sales teams.
Location: Most colleagues are based at the Sanoma Pro office in Ruoholahti, Finland, Sanoma Learning office in s’Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, Sanoma Educación office in Tres Cantos, Spain. Also if you live in another Sanoma Learning country and you are interested, do not hesitate to apply.
Experience required
- A minimum of 3 years work experience as a Product Owner or in a comparable role;
- Ability to drive vision and purpose for a domain
- Ability to drive change
- Experience working as a manager of a team
- Expertise in Salesforce
- Experience working in an international setting with distributed application development teams across several countries
- Cross-functional knowledge and strong at collaborations, i.e. ability to steer the end-to-end process and understand how it fits together;
- Fluent in English;
- Knowledge of Marketing & Sales domains
Sanoma offers
As an employer, Sanoma offers a working environment where you are able and encouraged to show your best self. The working environment is result-oriented as well as flexible with a focus on collaboration. We offer you a key position with interesting and challenging tasks and excellent opportunities for professional growth. You will be part of a highly professional and experienced international team in an open and informal setting, where initiative is expected and rewarded.
For questions about the vacancy, please reach out to Anne Kylmälä, mail anne.kylmala@sanoma.com or Phone: +358 40 486 0879.
To announce your interest in the vacancy, please share your motivation letter and CV with anne.kylmala@sanoma.com.