Job Opportunities Product Compliance & EHS Product Line Manager

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Product Compliance & EHS Product Line Manager - Your future role
As a Product Compliance & EHS Product line Manager you will be accountable for the strategy definition and the end-to-end delivery (i.e. from brainstorming to sun-setting/decommissioning) of the Product Compliance and EHS product line. This includes digital products and capabilities meeting market expectations for the 3 Departments: RAPS Fragrance & Beauty (F&B) Regulatory Taste & Wellbeing (T&W) Regulatory and Corporate EHS.
You will partner with the Heads of the relevant Departments to synthesize all the provided information and to design a relevant product offering consistent with market and technology trends Givaudans strategy and Givaudan Digitals strategy.
This mission involves leading a multicultural Product team to follow a product from its design to its production launch monitoring and support.
The Solution portfolio includes SAP components (SAP EHS SAP EHSM Compliance Engine FR Compliance Engine FL) and third-party solutions (ServiceNow Sphera Agilent etc).

You will report to the Head of Business Development Digital Solutions.

Preferred location: Argenteuil Zurich but other locations will be considered.

Your main responsibilities:

Product Line Strategy:

• Develop a partnership with the Business Heads of F&B RAPS T&W Regulatory and Corporate EHS
• Lead and communicate the definition of the product line strategy with IT and the above-mentioned partners
• Transform business and technology trends into a product line vision that delivers tangible added value
• Collaborate with other Product Line Managers and Enterprise Architects to develop the IT landscape

Resource Management:

• Oversee resources within the product line including people budget and vendors
• Foster an Agile product management culture that delivers value

Product Development:

• Promote the Product Compliance and EHS IT Team who is responsible:
• to enhance offering through innovation experimentation and proof of concept and
• evolution and maintenance of existing core solutions to manage the end-to-end product lifecycle from brainstorming to support
• Ensure execution aligns with the digital strategy for the division and company
• Is accountable for Product Line solutions and ensures cross-Products integration and collaboration across the whole IT organisation

Performance Measurement:

• Oversee product deliveries within the line
• Define metrics measure and communicate outcomes and performance of the product line

People Management:

• Manage product line team members supporting their professional development
• Recruit onboard and retain talent
• Adapt the product line organization to deliver value

You have:

• Masters degree in computer engineering or business school or equivalent
• 10 years working in the Information Technology area or related business domain.
• 5 years of experience partnering with Business Heads/Sponsors working at a strategic level
• 5 years of experience managing team dynamics building team relationships mentoring team members and delivering feedback
• Experience in Product Management / DevOps / agile development methodology.
• Product engineering and management
• Exposure and understanding of existing and new technologies and processing environments
• Experience with innovation approaches and methodologies (Continuous Discovery Design Thinking Design Sprints and UX design)
• Partner & product portfolio management skills
• Knowledge of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
• Fluent in English.

Our benefits:

• Bonus Payment
• Retirement contribution
• Career growth
• Health Coverage

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