Product Owner Cloud Platform

Product Owner Cloud Platform at Vanderlande

About Vanderlande

Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports and in the parcel market. Furthermore, we are also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses, which seamlessly integrate innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services.

At Vanderlande, you can develop your career, satisfy your ambitions, aspire to new heights, while enjoying personal growth and thriving on achievement.

Your department

The ICT department has initiated a transition towards an Agile way of working as part of improving the ICT Target Operating Model (TOM). The core teams within ICT serve as the backbone of the department, providing platform services, infrastructure, workplace solutions, low-code platforms, custom applications, and data transport products to the internal organization.

Your role

As Product Owner Cloud Platform, you are responsible for the vision and strategy of our Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platforms. You will lead the development of a secure, scalable, and standardized cloud foundation that supports teams throughout the organization.

You will work with a hybrid team of internal colleagues and external partners. This newly formed and growing team offers the opportunity to shape its structure, build capabilities, and embed knowledge within Vanderlande.

You translate business needs into core cloud services such as landing zones, automation frameworks, cost management, and security guardrails. As cloud adoption grows across the company, your challenge is to raise the maturity of these services while ensuring a consistent and reliable cloud experience for all teams.

Collaboration is essential in your role. You will work closely with the team, other Product Owners, architects, and the scrum master to deliver high-quality solutions that support secure and efficient cloud adoption across the enterprise. In this collaboration there is room for you to support and mentor fellow Product Owners and therein contribute to strengthening our way of working as ICT Core within the Agile Release Train.

Your responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Chief Product Owner on market research, future features, and functionalities to address new business needs
• Take responsibility for the product vision and long-term roadmap of the Cloud Platform using Microsoft Azure and Oracle OCI
• Align with key stakeholders across the business to encourage platform adoption
• Work closely with the external supplier managing the platform’s run component to support operations and collaborate on building activities for Azure and OCI services
• Together with the Product Architect, take responsibility for security and compliance of Azure and OCI services, defining governance guardrails and processes
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to set priorities and align on dependencies
• Partner with Product and System Architects to help define the product and produce cost and effort estimations
• Manage release planning, sprint goals, sprint reviews/demos, and refine both technical and business functionality across multiple development projects
• Handle initiative conflicts, challenges, and evolving business requirements to deliver expected outcomes
• Communicate with management and stakeholders on sprint and initiative milestones, as well as product KPIs such as usage metrics of Azure and OCI services, cost optimization, system uptime, and cloud security and compliance status
• Conduct postmortems and root cause analyses with teams, alongside retrospectives, to continuously improve the development process

Your qualifications and skills

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business or equivalent
• Experienced Product Owner with over 3 years of successfully delivering value in dynamic environments
• Experience with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is a strong plus.
• Experience working in an international, cross-cultural team is considered an advantage.
• Experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) is an advantage
• Knowledge of cloud platforms is a plus
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate well within teams and influence across various organizational levels
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced operational environment with multiple stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Results-driven with a hands-on approach and a focus on achieving goals
• Proficiency in spoken and written English

What we offer

In this challenging and responsible position, you will have the chance to make a significant contribution to industry-leading projects and be connected to our dedicated people and customers. We offer a position in an informal, international and professional working environment with a lot of scope for personal development. By joining our profitable and growing company you will be able to reach your goals and focus on your future.

This position offers a competitive salary range of € 5449 to € 7396 gross per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance). Through exceeding performance expectations, you even have the possibility to grow outside this scale.

On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
• Flexible working hours.
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
• Working from home allowance.
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
• On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
• A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
• And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.

Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.