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Product Lead, CPG offering

more than one year ago

Posted: more than one year ago

Relex

Company: Relex

Helsinki

Location: Helsinki

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<img src="https://www.relexsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/all-relex-2018.jpg" alt="" width="100%" height=""> We are now looking for a new Product Lead to lead the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) product area in our recently launched Product Strategy & Management team. Our team owns RELEX’s product vision and strategic, long term product roadmap and ensures our SaaS products continue to deliver measurable value for our customers in retail, wholesale and manufacturing industries around the globe.   Your role as a Product Lead is to own and lead CPG product offering and make sure it enables us to meet and exceed our current and future customers’ expectations and meets also RELEX’s financial targets. You will work closely with other product teams and engineering teams to provide market, customer and business view to R&D work and participate in sales cases to credibly communicate our product capabilities, vision and future plans.  Product Strategy and Management team members are currently located in Europe and this position can be located in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark or UK. In these locations you can work 100% remotely.    What you’ll be doing: Your key task will be to ensure our vision, strategy and roadmap for CPG offering are world class, meets customers needs now and in the future, and ensures we reach our financial targets regarding e.g. SaaS profitability. Your key responsibilities will be:  <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Build and own a compelling product vision for CPG offering</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Build and manage our strategic, long-term product roadmap and priority order of new initiatives in your product area</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Lead new CPG offering related initiatives from start to finish and ensure good communication about the progress to various stakeholders</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Be the main product evangelist of your product area both internally and externally (e.g. supporting sales, participate in analyst briefings)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Stay up-to-date on customer needs and market trends </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Ensure we meet our financial KPIs with the solutions we are developing </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Establish good working relationships with different key stakeholders within Product and Technology organizations, Customer Operations, Sales, Pre-sales and Marketing teams</li> </ul>   What you’ll bring to the table: <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Relevant Master's or Bachelor's degree (e.g. Management Science, Industrial Management, Information Networks, Business Technology, Logistics, Economics and Business Administration)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">FMCG/CPG and retail industry knowledge, e.g. +5 years of relevant work experience in FMCG/CPG supply chain management, logistics or management consulting, and e.g. earlier experience and understanding of S&OP process</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Strong leadership skills and ability to collaborate and communicate efficiently with internal and external stakeholders on all organizational levels</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Customer focused, business mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving skills</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier experience in product ownership/management is considered as an advantage</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Fluent English skills (fluency in Finnish/Swedish/German/Spanish/French/Russian is a significant bonus)</li> </ul>   What we offer you in return: <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">An international career and learning opportunities in a rapidly growing software company</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">A fun, ambitious, and committed team of smart people to work with</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">A respectful and professional, yet easy-going atmosphere where individual thinking is encouraged</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Responsibilities in challenging projects from day one</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">A position where you can help retailers fight against food waste</li> </ul>   Are you the one we’re looking for? Apply today and become a part of our RELEX family! You can apply by sending your cover letter and resume through the application form as soon as possible, but no later than 7th of February. Please note that we will fill this position as soon as we’ve found the right person, so we recommend that you act quickly. If you have questions, our Talent Acquisition Coordinator Karoliina Kujala is happy to answer them by email karoliina.kujala[a]relexsolutions.com.   Due to the severity of COVID-19, we’ve moved to a remote working mode. Restrictions being in place, we’re currently unable to schedule in-person interviews, relocate new employees to our offices, and onboarding is primarily completed remotely, depending on the country-specific recommendations. Our mission is to keep everyone safe while adapting to changing times.   About RELEX RELEX Solutions is a leading provider of cutting-edge retail optimization software. We offer our customers radically improved demand forecasting and supply chain optimization, which then can be leveraged into exponential benefits — optimizing store space, allocation, workforce, pricing and promotion strategies, all within our unified platform. RELEX is trusted by leading brands including S Group, Suomalainen Kirjakauppa, Yliopiston Apteekki, Morrisons, and Rossmann, and has offices across North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.