Product Owner / Programme Manager Measurement Systems m/f/d

About the job

I am looking for a Product Owner who wants to take responsibility for both content and schedule simultaneously. My team develops measurement systems for water, gas and heat for the Swiss domestic market and worldwide. Several of our development projects share platforms, tools and suppliers, and it is precisely this link that we are currently missing.

As Product Owner, you translate the product mandate from product management into a prioritised backlog, decide on the content and order of releases, and approve the results. You work daily with mechanics, hardware, firmware and system testing, with quality management, production, approval authorities and OEM customers.

As Programme Manager, you manage several interconnected development projects according to our stage-gate process: common platform, tools and manufacturing partners in Southeast Asia, dependencies and resource conflicts, consolidated status reports to divisional management.

You have at least six years of experience as a project manager of interdisciplinary, international teams and have managed several parallel projects with a common platform. You are familiar with product development from design through electronics and firmware to industrialisation, PPAP and approvals such as MID. You apply agile methods such as Scrum or Kanban within the stage-gates, help us further develop this way of working in R&D, and you know where its limits lie with hardware and tool delivery times. Your profile is rounded off by a degree in electrical engineering, mechatronics or mechanical engineering (FH/ETH); certificates as a project manager or product owner are a plus.

I myself was a programme manager at GWF for several years. During this time, I was responsible for the development of encoder counters with litre resolution and established OEM products with millions of units on the market. Today I lead over 50 employees in Lucerne and Thessaloniki, and from time to time we reinvent ourselves. For this, I am looking for someone who acts proactively, independently and entrepreneurially, communicates openly in German and English, and reports directly to me. If you enjoy developing new ideas together, we should get to know each other.

Thomas Frey, VP Research & Development

Interested?
Ms Pia Requena (HR Business Partner) looks forward to receiving your online application including your salary expectations and is happy to provide further information.