Senior Specialist MAPS Product Owner

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Company Information

TOYOTA is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 350.000 people. Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing, and engineering operations.

We are excited to be transforming into a mobility company focusing on bringing even more happiness to our customers through various mobility solutions.

Team Description

Your team and your responsibilities

Group & Division Responsibilities

Value Chain (VC) is responsible for the planning, development and sales performance of parts, services and accessories. Our Value Chain processes are supported by business applications.

Within Parts Division our Strategic Systems Team covers a range of business applications key to reach our challenging targets.

Team Responsibilities

These Business Applications include Parts &Accessory Planning tool (MAPS), Cataloguing (EPC, Menu Pricing tool) and a centralised Parts & Accessory Pricing tool.

Your Responsibilities

Within the team of Parts & Accessory Planning Tool (MAPS) we are looking for a Product Owner to lead the team.

In this role you will be responsibility to develop and communicate the product goal, create and clearly communicate product backlog items, and prioritise the backlog to maximize business value. Train and coach members and have regular report out meetings with your management and stakeholders.

Stakeholders include a diverse teams within Parts & Accessories Development, Homologation, Quality & Planning teams .

Through the fundamentals of SCRUM and Agile development you will further develop the MAPS tool through iterative and incremental software development.

• to organise regular stakeholder meetings in order to map and analyse current development processes;
• to make proposals for process improvements;
• to translate these proposals into draft User Requirements;
• to validate draft User Requirements with TME sr. management;
• to support the Hand-over to MAPS system development team;
• to provide regular updates (in writing) of the project to TME sr. management, including overall status of the project, issues, risks, forecast, etc.;
• to organize, structure and ensure User Acceptance of the (prototype) system;
• to provide (written) answers to TME’s organization on questions related to the MAPS system;
• to structure & document Standard Operating Procedures for the MAPS system;
• to support the user tests of MAPS system
• to support the final deployment of MAPS system in TME
  

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Your Profile

• Degree in Engineering or Software Development
• Experience in Automotive Industry is a plus
  

Technical Skills

• Strong numerical, logical and analytical skills
• Strong Project Management Skills
• Strong Communication & Visualisation skills
• Fluent in English, any other European language is an asset
  

Place of employment

• Belgium - Brussels (Evere & Zaventem): Toyota Motor Europe, Head Office & Technical Centre
  

We offer

Toyota offers a comprehensive remuneration package, including a bonus scheme and interesting extra-legal benefits. We provide flexibility to take care of both your career and your personal life by providing hybrid work environment with structural possibility to both work from home & collaborate in the office. You can also take your work abroad for up to 20 days/year. If you want to know more, please check-out our Career and Benefits page .

At Toyota Motor Europe, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all. All our recruitment decisions are based on the individual and their qualifications along with the job requirements. The selection process is without regard to nationality, gender, age, ethnicity, or disability. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination as our individual experiences and overall diversity is our key strength. Together we have the power to make a positive change and go beyond the ordinary.

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