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The Product Owner – Platforms & UI/UX is responsible for defining and delivering platform capabilities and user-centric experiences across amfori’s digital ecosystem. This role ensures that platform architecture, user interfaces, and design systems are scalable, consistent, and aligned with business goals and user needs.
The Product Owner acts as the bridge between business stakeholders, amfori IT and business teams, and vendors, driving the platform vision and ensuring seamless integration of functionalities, system core capabilities and design.
The Product Owner sets delivery/ development priorities, coordinates collaboration, and ensures the product backlog is always up-to-date. Prioritize platform features and technical enablers in collaboration with cross-functional teams
Ensure platform scalability, interoperability, and alignment with the amfori enterprise architecture and data governance standards
Act together with the IT Manager as the decision-maker for platform-related trade-offs, balancing technical feasibility, business value, and user impact
UI/UX Strategy & Governance
Own and evolve the amfori Component Library in collaboration with UI/UX designers and external partners
Facilitate design sprints and workshops to co-create intuitive, inclusive, and efficient user experiences
Ensure that platform and UI/UX deliverables meet quality, privacy, and compliance standards (e.g. Support testing and validation of new features, ensuring they meet acceptance criteria and user expectations
Agile Product Management
Manage and groom the product backlog, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and alignment with business and product goals
Collaborate with Business Product Manager/ Owners, Functional Analysts, and Vendor to translate business requirements into actionable user stories
Participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews to ensure continuous improvement and delivery of value
Vendor Management
Act as the main operational contact for platform-related vendors, ensuring that deliverables align with agreed epics, features, and backlog priorities, validate the quality and completeness of vendor outputs and escalates technical or performance issues to the IT Manager when necessary
Collaborate with the IT Manager to ensure that vendor contracts include clear service-level agreements (SLAs), compliance clauses and performance expectations
Translate business and technical requirements into actionable tasks for vendors, ensuring timely and cost-effective delivery
Experiences and strong technical understanding of scalable platform architecture and design, interoperability, user experience principles and integration with Enterprise Architecture
Experience in managing component libraries and ensuring consistency across user interfaces
Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and backlog management
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Ability to guide multidisciplinary teams, foster collaboration, and ensure accountability across internal and external contributors