Product Owner Digital Workplace

Become our new Product Owner and make an impact in an inspiring Digital Workplace! We offer an excellent salary and the opportunity to really make a difference. Work on innovative projects, share your vision and grow in a culture full of ambition and success.

Do you want to work on the digital workplace of the future? As a Product Owner, you will play a key role in connecting stakeholders, prioritizing complex IT issues and inspiring teams. You ensure that students and colleagues can learn, work and collaborate anytime, anywhere.

Within our IT department – with 200 enthusiastic professionals – we work in multidisciplinary teams on themes such as digitization, self-service, security, data management, high performance computing and cloud strategy. An environment full of current challenges and plenty of opportunities for further development.

We are proud of our 1st place in the top 10 in the ranking of best employers among non-ICT organizations according to the Computable Career Guide 2024 Computable Career Guide | Computable.nl.

The function:
As a Product Owner, you are responsible for:

• You identify trends, developments and opportunities for improvement in the field of the Digital Workplace
• You will develop the vision and strategy for the team's services.
• You prioritize the backlog to deliver maximum value, based on data and facts.
• You ensure visibility of the team and show what is being achieved.
• You work intensively with stakeholders in a complex environment.
• You monitor costs and manage existing and new SLAs.
• Together with the department manager and scrum master, you ensure a healthy, strong and well-functioning team.

• You have at least HBO working and thinking level;
• You have at least 5 years of work experience working as a Product Owner of Agile infrastructure teams in a complex environment, where you have managed to combine continuity and change
• From an in-depth, substantive knowledge, you are able to define a clear vision of the workplace services;
• You have demonstrable experience in a challenging stakeholder field.

You are result-oriented and decisive, with a strong drive to define and implement a valuable service. In doing so, you are a connector and you include both the team and stakeholders in your ambition.

Our buildingis modern, light, green, and is located on a lively green campus where students, teachers, researchers and all other residents criss-cross each other, walk, work and study. The campus is spacious with good parking. You will work with the latest technology and will work in an enthusiastic team of colleagues with a passion for their field.

• When it comes to terms of employment, Wageningen University & Research is the right place for you. Highlights from our collective labour agreement are, for example:
• working hours that can be determined in consultation, so that an optimal work-life balance is possible;
• the possibility of building up extra compensation hours by working more, per week;
• sabbatical leave, study leave and partly paid parental leave;
• There is a lot of attention for vitality and you can use the sports facilities on campus at an attractive rate;
• a structural end-of-year bonus of 8.3%;
• excellent pension scheme through ABP.

Of course, these excellent fringe benefits also include an appropriate salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a competitive salary of a minimum of € 4,190 to a maximum of € 6,831 for a full working week of 36 hours in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement for Wageningen Research (scale 11/12). In addition, an appointment of 32 hours is negotiable. We offer you an annual contract with the intention of converting it into a contract for an indefinite period.

Wageningen University & Research stimulates internal career opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are ample opportunities for own initiative in a learning environment, we offer excellent training opportunities. With us, you will get a versatile job in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

You will work on the greenest and most innovative campus in the Netherlands, and at a university that has been chosen as the "best university" in the Netherlands for the 20th consecutive time.

The mission of Wageningen University & Research is 'To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life'. Within Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation are joining forces to contribute to the solution of important questions in the field of healthy food and the living environment. With approximately 30 branches, 7,700 employees (7,000 FTEs), 2,500 PhD and EngD candidates, 13,100 students and more than 150,000 Lifelong Learning participants, Wageningen University & Research is one of the world's leading knowledge institutions in its field. The integrated approach to the issues and the cooperation between different disciplines form the heart of the unique Wageningen approach. Our employees indicate these points as good reasons to come and work at WUR: read the 5 reasons to come and work at WUR

We are recruiting for this vacancy ourselves. Acquisition is not appreciated, but sharing in your network is.

If you would like more information about this position, please contact Ellen van der Heiden – Wamelink, Department Manager Design, telephone: 06-38073019 or by e-mail: ellen.vanderheiden-wamelink@wur.nl

For more information about the procedure, please contact Edvard Jongschaap, Sr. Corporate Recruiter Facility Services & Corporate Staff, telephone: 0317 – 489 178 by e-mail: edvard.jongschaap@wur.nl.

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Wageningen University & Research (WUR) attaches great importance to diversity and inclusion. This is because we believe that different insights lead to innovative solutions. We therefore create a working environment where everyone feels welcome, safe and valued, regardless of background, identity or experience. Together, we are building a culture in which everyone's unique contribution contributes to the success of our organization.