IT Product Owner, Procurement

IT Product Owner, Procurement

Would you be excited to be the heart of procurement for a supply chain spanning Western Europe? Carlsberg is seeking a highly accountable, forward-thinking Digital Product Owner lead for our procurement applications.

What you’ll be doing

As Digital Product Owner for Procurement you will make sure Carlsberg’s 10 Western Europe markets enjoy excellent procurement automation. That includes end-to-end application stability, reliability, supportability, continuous improvement and long-term strategy.

You will be first point of contact for production systems, steering the team who respond to incidents. You will drive optimization, standardization and automation, targeting lower cost and high availability. You will plan and prioritize the changes and updates that best serve business goals, and you’ll steer a talented engineering team to deliver on time and on budget.

In parallel, you will help us transform procurement for the future, optimizing our upstream and downstream processes (sourcing, contract, purchasing, SRM) and the applications that enable them.

Your primary tasks and responsibilities:

• Be the person accountable for end-to-end application stability, operability, evolution, lifecycle and financials of our digital products for procurement
• Help define our next-generation architecture and roadmap
• Partner with business peers and leaders to plan and prioritize changes
• Manage strategic vendors and partners, set appropriate KPIs, ensure delivery as planned and proper governance in transition from project to operations
• Anchor changes across our organization to ensure adoption and ROI
• Simplify and optimize a system landscape including SAP ECC, SAP ARIBA, SAP S/4HANA, OpenText VIM, Sievo, Bureau van Dijk, Neo KDS
• Lead testing for new features, service packs, or hotfixes within your portfolio

Who we’re looking for

A focused professional with experience in procurement and supply chain. If you have some of the following, we want to talk:

• Experience from a similar position in a global company
• Sourcing and contract management (SAP ARIBA, Sievo, Bureau van Dijk)
• Purchasing and SRM (SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, OpenText VIM, etc)
• Solution oriented and able to support in debugging or finding the answer to a complex requirement
• Understanding of E2E supply chains and supporting systems
• Experience leading in-house and outsourced delivery teams
• Change management & communication skills
• Experience with strategic transformation
• Ability to explain complicated concepts and IT in a simple way

And don’t worry if you don’t have it all. We look for potential first. We want you in our team long-term and that means giving you room to grow in the direction that works for you. 

What you can expect

• Fun and informal work atmosphere
• Flexible work environment supporting a work life balance
• Lots of responsibility, high expectations and trust from the start
• Great professional challenges and chances to grow

You will be based at our Central Office in Copenhagen, or your nearest Western European Carlsberg location, and you will be offered flexibility in the role. We estimate around 15 travel days per year.

Carlsberg Integrated Information Technology (IIT)

Join Carlsberg’s IIT organisation, we are the global provider of technology services to all business functions, regions, and markets in the Carlsberg Group. This includes solution delivery and operations. We are an organization of approx. 750 people, across the globe and we have tight collaboration with our local markets in Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, Canada, India and Asia

Interested?

Apply through the link. Please note that this is the only way we accept applications. For questions about the position, please contact IIT WE Director Kevin Scott at kevin.scott@carlsberg.com. The deadline for applying is the 22nd of May 2025. We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled sooner than the deadline, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Carlsberg Group: Brewing for a better today and tomorrow

For us success has always been in the diverse mix of our people, our beers and our brands. At Carlsberg, we want to recruit and develop people with a global mindset, cultural understanding, and international experience to ensure that our organization stays agile, inclusive and prepared for future growth. Only by acknowledging and harvesting from different perspectives and experiences, will we gain competitive advantage and leverage the effect of diversity for business growth. Carlsberg aims to create equal access to opportunity regardless of social identity, and we encourage everyone to apply regardless of gender, nationality, race, religion or any other characteristics protected by law.