Product Manager

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Since its creation more than 50 years ago, the Sodexo group has been the world leader in quality-of-life services.

At Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services, we have made our mark on the world by helping clients give their employees personalized experiences, every day. Our benefit platforms and payment solutions are already used by 440,000 clients and 36 million of their employees in 32 countries.

At Sodexo Benefits & Rewards Services, we are proud of our commitments to environmental sustainability, our focus on employment equity and diversity, our new ways of working independently and flexibility for the well-being of our talents. Joining us means evolving in a collaborative, innovative environment, in which each employee is recognized and receives the support they need for their development.

We passionately believe that the quality of life of our clients and service consumers begins with our own people. Consequently, your wellbeing at work is one of our priorities.

Collaborating with us is an opportunity to impact the future of employee experience and, ultimately; the world around us. But it is also your chance to make an impact every day, putting a part of yourself into exciting digital products and touching the lives of millions of consumers.

We are a global, multicultural business where every contribution counts, and every day is a chance to inspire others and take inspiration from your colleagues.

We are accelerating our growth on a global scale, combining the reach and stability of Sodexo with our unique position as an incubator of innovation. As part of the team, you will help us continue that growth and our landmark digital transformation.

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Your Mission

Define and implement the vision, strategy and roadmap for your product area in close collaboration with the head of product, CMO and global and local stakeholders. Maximize business value by evolving product towards unequalled customer-centric experiences for all stakeholders

Your Responsabilities

• Define and implement the vision, strategy and roadmap for your product area

• Align with Global product teams on the product strategy and roadmap

• Be responsible to handle global requests related to your product as well as to push local requests for support

• Be the business owner of your product across the organization for all initiatives directly or indirectly impacting your product area

• Identify and resolve issues on your roadmap

• Work with business and engineering teams to drive meaningful impact and shape existing and new products and business models

• Facilitate alignment and planning from discovery to go-to-market

• Build market expertise to guide the product strategy and roadmap for your product area – market and technology trends watch, competitive intelligence, competitive pricing analysis, product & market research, market analyses, data analysis

• You proactively identify new opportunities through qualitative and quantitative research, desk research, interaction with customers, etc.

• Build expertise on legal and regulatory frameworks to guide product strategy & roadmap and support internal teams’ lobbying efforts for your product area

• Inform and guide the product marketing strategy for your product area

• Work closely with digital product owners and business analysts to define business requirements and translate them to features and stories

• Build and present new business cases to the leadership

• Define product positioning and USP’s

• Define and monitor objectives and relevant KPIs for your product area supporting the company OKR’s

• Develop a deep understanding of our customers and users’ needs

• Stay up to date with technological and business developments within the sector

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Your Profile

• Strong bias for action and "get it done" attitude

• You are passionate about user and customer experience

• Ability to balance long-term strategy with near term business goals

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and being able to influence on all levels

• You have extensive experience +3 years in digital product management as a product manager or product owner

• You have experience with agile development processes

• You have strong analytical capabilities

• You have the ability to prioritise. You can handle several projects and many different tasks in an organised way

• Very good communication skills in the French, Dutch and English

At Sodexo we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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• When you start your job, you will receive adequate onboarding and training which will allow you to have a good command of Sodexo products and related procedures.
• We offer you a training course with real opportunities for development both within the team and within the company.
• A full-time contract
• A competitive salary with numerous extra-legal benefits.
• A pleasant work environment in a dynamic and inspiring company.

Quality of life at work:

• A work-life balance with possibility for home office
• A concierge service that offers various services: dry cleaning, ironing, shoe repair, purchase of gifts, etc.
• A wide choice of sustainable and delicious meals in our company restaurant
• A variety of sports (badminton, mini football, basketball, meditation and yoga)