Product Owner

Weigandt Consulting is a leading player on the global IT-for-Retail services market. For over 20 years of working with multinational and regional giants in EMEA and Southeast Asia like Tesco, Mercedes-Benz, Vodafone, Lotus’s, and Konzum, we have empowered our clients to succeed in an evolving digital landscape, creating rewarding retail experiences through technology.

From IT strategy consulting and comprehensive implementation projects to complex multivendor solutions and staff augmentation, our goal is to build lasting relationships with our clients, serving as a consistent, transparent, and reliable technology partner.

Headquartered in Aachen, Germany, with offices in the UK, UAE, and nearshore locations in Eastern Europe, Weigandt Consulting is home to 200+ dedicated IT professionals.

We are proud to be an official Oracle Partner.

Role Overview:

This role offers a great opportunity to help shape and deliver key capabilities within the global UK retailer IT landscape. As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for shaping the outcomes and driving the roadmap of retailer’s core finance applications forward. The role will require working closely with business stakeholders and Technology colleagues, as well as 3rd party suppliers.

Projects Overview:

• Onboarding third-party applications into the company’s infrastructure (e.g., SSO, Access Management).

The Product Owner will be responsible for facilitating communication between client’s systems and external vendors, ensuring that all integrations comply with client’s security and IT policies.

• Migrating finance applications to the Private Cloud – 1 project.

This project involves a lift-and-shift migration model, where existing finance applications will be moved to the Private Cloud with minimal changes to the underlying systems. The Product Owner will be responsible for ensuring that the migration does not disrupt business operations and that all financial processes can continue in the new environment.

• Designing a new finance application and decommissioning legacy systems – 1 project

The role involves gathering requirements, designing the application architecture, and managing the decommissioning of old systems. The candidate will work closely with finance teams to ensure the new application meets business needs and integrates smoothly with other systems.

• Drive Finance product strategy, roadmap and execution alongside a team of talented PMs and engineers;
• Understand the key business stakeholders and their goals/strategies and steer the product in the right direction based on business priorities;
• Lead discovery work for new problems/opportunities, collaborating with business stakeholders and engineering teams to define, design and validate an MVP;
• Effectively document and articulate new requirements to the engineering team using user stories and acceptance criteria and help the team in breaking down a complex piece of work/epic into smaller, deliverable chunks of value;
• Respond and prioritise fixes for live issues and continuous improvement;
• Update stakeholders and leadership on progress against OKRs at regular forums;
• Collaborate with Head of Product to understand future demand and direction of the finance products.

• Experience in the retail sector (Finance area in Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable);
• 4+ years of experience as a Product/Consultant/PM;
• Strong understanding of the technical aspects of software development (microservices architecture, ERP, complex applications);
• Experience in IT services outsourcing is a significant plus;
• Proficient in documentation using Confluence; good skills with Jira;
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology;
• Data-driven mindset with experience using a broad range of analytics tools;
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills;
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects;
• English proficiency at the B2/C1 level;
• Willingness to undertake potential business trips.

• Competitive salary based on your performance;
• Work in hybrid schedule: 3 days from office (Prague/Budapest/Krakow);
• B2B contract;
• Healthy work/life balance: holidays and paid sick leaves based on location;
• Regular performance review based on your results;
• Wallet of Benefits: compensation of Professional, Workplace, Health, Children, Sports, Travel, Culture expenses;
• Engaging in an innovative international project.