Job Description

Driving our digital development

Serving ROCKWOOL Group with digital expertise, you and your team will ensure a smart and seamless experience in the interactions between internal colleagues, customers, stakeholders and vendors. We foster an environment that encourages development \xe2\x80\x93 to enable you to take ownership of your career with us. Digitalization is at the top of the agenda, and you will be part of an evolution that will take our business further. As you work globally, you will develop through the many daily touchpoints and the challenges you face in making ROCKWOOL a great company to do business with.

Purpose & Scope of the role

The Product Manager heads a team of highly qualified professionals in leading the lifecycle of Digital Workplace products. These products are software pre-dominantly Microsoft O365 products and devices ranging from PCs, tablets, and phones couple with security implementations.

Key Responsibilities and Job Content

Build organizational capabilities and a learning organization.

• Build and execute domain roadmap for hardware, operating systems, applications, and related security implementations.
• Manage the lifecycle of the implementations incorporating business needs and standard industry practice.
• Build and enhance capabilities in managing license consumption with the relevant stakeholder within ROCKWOOL and service providers.
• Champion agile capabilities to reduce time in deployment and realization of benefits.
• Industrialize services components or work process where needed and possible as part of service / delivery improvement initiatives aligned to best practices.
• Continuously develop skills needed to perform the managerial function and for personal development.
• Focus on engagement with team members to ensure a high performing team culture.
• Develop competencies of team members continuously for current and future needs.

Creation of workplace culture

• Consciously create a workplace culture that is consistent with the overall organization\'s values.
• Emphasize the identified objectives, goals, mission, vision, and guiding principles to ensure constant alignment of deliveries.
• Shape a conducive work environment, relationship, and work processes.
• Show leadership values towards the teams and stakeholders.
• Enable trust and empowerment: ensure delegation of authority, accountability, and responsibility for improving the processes which are under their control.

Objective / Goal Execution

• Executing agreed goals, priorities, and projects as per plan. The goals or objectives are agreed as part of the objective setting or review process.
• Some objectives may will be ad-hoc to address business, operations or legal requirements which requires the equivalent attention and execution process.
• Execute the above goals in an agile method where needed in assigning resources fluidly.
• Ensure resource planning /allocation is done efficiently.

Financials

• Prepare the necessary budget deemed necessary as part of the defined budget.
• Approve / challenge budget approvals in ensuring prudent spending.
• Monitor / manage the allocated budget via allocated tools and take remediation actions if needed promptly.

Personal Competencies

• INTEGRITY: Takes personal responsibility for their actions and is honest with internal/external parties about opportunities and risk
• LISTENING: Asks other people questions, taking account of their nonverbal signals, and manages to get a clear idea of what is really going on with the other person
• BEHAVIORAL FLEXIBILITY: Gains an in-depth insight into other people and adjusts his/her behavioral style to achieve goals.
• SENSIVITY: Carefully explores other people\'s goals, feelings, needs and ideas and responds to them tactfully and with understanding.
• Tell (internal) customers frankly and honestly about risks and opportunities.
• COACHING: Contributes to employee\xe2\x80\x99s/colleagues\xe2\x80\x99 development on own initiative.
• COMMUNICATION (ORAL/WRITTEN): Communicates in a language understood by the receiver makes the complicated simple.
• RESULT ORIENTED: Realizes goals and intervenes when results are threatened.
• PLANNING AND ORGANISING: Plans and organizes work effectively independently and on own initiative.
• NEGOTIATING: Demonstrates to his/her negotiating partner, of his/her own initiative, that he/she is focused on a win-win outcome.
• DELEGATION: Delegates on own initiative and authorizes people to take decisions
• PERSUASIVENESS: Gains an in-depth insight into other people and attunes his/her line of reasoning to it.
• MARKET ORIENTATION: Makes use of his/her knowledge of market and technological developments on his/her own initiative and shares this knowledge with employees and colleagues.

Professional Competencies

• University Degree major in Information Technology or equivalent
• Business / IT domain knowledge / IT experience in international environment.
• 5 + years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in end user computing in large enterprise environment with regional / global exposure / 3 years people management experience
• Experience in designing, deploying, and managing Microsoft Office 365 products and security related products.
• Experience is other workspace products such as Google Workspace would be added advantage.
• Degree in Information Technology / IT fields or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in managing teams, ITIL processes and methodology.
• Good personal skills and presentation skills

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