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Head of Digital Product Office in R&D(m/w/x)
Shaping digital execution for plant breeding R&D across the product portfolio. Senior digital product leadership experience required. Focus on product ownership standards and team performance.
Requirements
- Senior experience leading digital product organizations
- Several years of people leadership experience
- Experience establishing and scaling product ownership practices
- Track record of strengthening team performance
- Confidence in prioritization and decision-making
- Ability to influence, align, and communicate effectively
- Fluent English
- Experience in R&D-driven or innovation-focused environments
- Broader experience leading digital product delivery
- Comfort operating at intersection of strategy, users, technology
- Leadership style combining strategic perspective and hands-on engagement
- Diverse backgrounds and perspectives encouraged
Tasks
- Lead the Digital Product Office
- Shape digital execution across product portfolio
- Ensure delivery service excellence
- Build high-performing Product Ownership culture
- Define product ownership standards
- Translate strategy into execution
- Align domain leadership and delivery teams
- Prioritize execution and decision-making
- Enhance training and support for digital tools
- Collaborate with engineering and architecture
- Shape cross-product technical direction
- Manage quality standards and integrations
- Ensure product adoption and value realization
- Lead in a matrix organization
- Manage cross-team dependencies
- Resolve cross-team escalations
- Establish execution transparency
- Define and communicate KPIs
- Report progress and outcomes to stakeholders
Work Experience
- approx. 4 - 6 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Fluent
- German – Basic
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Head of Digital Product Office in R&D(m/w/x)
Shaping digital execution for plant breeding R&D across the product portfolio. Senior digital product leadership experience required. Focus on product ownership standards and team performance.
Requirements
- Senior experience leading digital product organizations
- Several years of people leadership experience
- Experience establishing and scaling product ownership practices
- Track record of strengthening team performance
- Confidence in prioritization and decision-making
- Ability to influence, align, and communicate effectively
- Fluent English
- Experience in R&D-driven or innovation-focused environments
- Broader experience leading digital product delivery
- Comfort operating at intersection of strategy, users, technology
- Leadership style combining strategic perspective and hands-on engagement
- Diverse backgrounds and perspectives encouraged
Tasks
- Lead the Digital Product Office
- Shape digital execution across product portfolio
- Ensure delivery service excellence
- Build high-performing Product Ownership culture
- Define product ownership standards
- Translate strategy into execution
- Align domain leadership and delivery teams
- Prioritize execution and decision-making
- Enhance training and support for digital tools
- Collaborate with engineering and architecture
- Shape cross-product technical direction
- Manage quality standards and integrations
- Ensure product adoption and value realization
- Lead in a matrix organization
- Manage cross-team dependencies
- Resolve cross-team escalations
- Establish execution transparency
- Define and communicate KPIs
- Report progress and outcomes to stakeholders
Work Experience
- approx. 4 - 6 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Fluent
- German – Basic
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About the Company
KWS SAAT
Industry
Agriculture
Description
The company is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies, focusing on seed production and innovation.
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