RELEX Solutions create cutting-edge supply chain and retail planning software. Within our platforms, we have the power and potential to increase adaptability, efficiency, and sustainability in the consumer goods and retail value chain. Our impact is tangible; from sustainability and eliminating waste to delighting customers and delivering great tailored tech solutions, we’re curious and passionate challenge-seekers creating the future of retail today.
Our Product Team
RELEX Product team is pivotal in ensuring our continued growth. We build industry-leading products that fulfill the needs of the world’s largest and most advanced retailers and manufacturers. Our products leverage cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning (ML) based big data analytics and modern cloud architecture, all while maintaining a user-friendly and efficient experience for our extensive user base. We have the happiest customers of our industry, and our customers couldn’t run their daily operations without RELEX. What’s more, through optimizing our customers’ supply chains, we save 11m kg of food waste every year. We are proud of our culture: we have a strong, talented, and ambitious team that doesn’t take themselves too seriously and has lots of fun together.
We are now looking for a skilled Product Manager to join our RELEX family. You will join our fast growing CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) and Manufacturing Product team, focusing on our Production Scheduling solution.
You will join the CPG Product team preferably in Helsinki (Finland) or Stockholm (Sweden). However, any current RELEX European office location can be considered.
Together we are building a world-class solution for CPG & manufacturing Supply Chain planning and optimization for our manufacturing customers, and you will have a key role in taking our Production Scheduling solution to the next level.
What You’ll Be Doing:
You will have a significant role in product management help the team achieve this goal by being a skilled Product Manager, setting the product vision and strategy, defining commercial go-to market strategy, discovering customer challenges, prioritizing them, setting new requirements for the solution, and leading and giving directions to our product development roadmap.
- You will be working tightly together with the rest of the CPG & Manufacturing Product team and be a key contributor to overall Product strategy for the CPG & Manufacturing business
- You will be responsible for owning the production scheduling solution for the CPG & Manufacturing business, which includes:
- Product Strategy & Vision: Define product vision and strategy and define commercial go-to market strategy for our Production scheduling solution. Communicating this vision on all levels, ensuing it gives the required direction to all product and development functions
- Product Roadmap: Own the longer-term Product roadmap, understanding how our existing solution improve, as well as giving direction to the Engineering team in building and maintaining the operational roadmaps and ongoing development efforts
- Stakeholder Management: Establish good working relationships with different key stakeholders within Product and Technology organizations (Product management, UX, Labs etc.), Customer Operations, Sales, Pre-sales, and Marketing teams
- Product Expertise: Play the role of Production scheduling expert with a deep knowledge and understanding of the scheduling process & product and its value statements and Key Performance Indicators. Be a product evangelist of your products both internally and externally (e.g., supporting sales, engaging with prospective partners)
- Supporting Sales & Operations: Play the role of trusted advisor within sales cases, and supporting implementation projects by working together with our Operations, Product Excellence & Best Practice teams on best practice within Production scheduling solution.
We Are Looking For:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in both or either of the following:
- Manufacturing related products within the industry and a clear view of best practice, and how improvements can be made in terms of solutions and user experience
- Experience in Product management, and software and general product development, including development methodology and roadmap management
- Minimum 2 years of experience about Production scheduling methodologies, having a deep understanding of base principles, on-going challenges and have a vision for how we can improve in business value, quality, and transparency.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills required for interactions at all levels of the business internally and externally.
- Able to take ownership and provide the product direction with collaboration with customers and internal stakeholder teams
- Able to work with sales, strategy, and operations teams together with other Product teams for utilising their strategic guidance for the best of the product
- Actively works with customers, and involving them continuously in the product communications
- Can talk about difficult topics on multiple abstraction layers from C-level to other members of the wider product team
- Can play the role of Product expert for our Operations team (new and existing projects), and sales cases.
What We Consider as an Advantage:
- Experience and deep knowledge of the CPG and manufacturing industries in the broader picture
- Experience in a manufacturing setting understanding how our manufacturing customers utilize Supply Chain Planning and production scheduling software
RELEX Sweden
RELEXians can be found around the world, but here we are based in Stockholm. Our office is central and offers a fantastic base to work or socialize; you can enjoy both in the same day with collaborative, supportive working and then wine tasting, yoga, ping pong, we have it all! Your future teammates enjoy the flexibility we are known for and our calm, expert atmosphere where people come first.
Across RELEX, our people are supported and rewarded. In Sweden, we go even further. As well as:
- Competitive compensation aligned with Nordic countries’ salary levels.
- Benefits including pension, wellness allowance, health insurance, and more
- Flexible remote work setup
- Modern office in central Stockholm
We’re on a journey with our pioneering technology and exciting growth, which is why we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We can’t wait to see what challenges you’ll overcome and what problems you’ll solve. Join us and work with the best. Be curious. Be RELEX – Apply today.
Being part of RELEX means being heard, feeling valued and knowing that you can be yourself because you belong. We believe in actions, not words, regarding diverse hiring and employment practices. We take DE&I seriously. We champion and benefit from global diversity. We’re creating and evolving our culture to welcome everyone and value every idea.
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 November 10th, 2024. Please note that we will fill this position as soon as we’ve found the right person, so we recommend that you act quickly. Kindly note that we cannot process any applications through email.
