Product Owner

Avance Consulting; Skåne län; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Avance Consulting seeks a Senior Product Owner to co-lead a global platform transformation. You will shape the platform strategy, develop a multi-year roadmap, and drive adoption across markets while phasing out legacy solutions.

The role requires senior leadership to align multiple teams, markets, and dependencies toward measurable business outcomes. This position focuses on connecting strategy with platform evolution, migration, and execution, balancing global standardization with local needs

Qualifications

• Senior Product Owner with demonstrated experience in strategy over product platforms.
• Ability to balance global standardization with local market needs.
• Strong communication and influence across senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Shape and continuously evolve the product strategy for the platform and its global adoption.
• Translate strategy into a multi-year roadmap balancing platform evolution, migration and legacy phase-out.
• Define outcomes and priorities across teams, markets and dependencies.
• Lead cross-team execution and manage critical dependencies and risks.
• Drive adoption of the platform across a global, multi-market environment.
• Coordinate readiness of products, markets and organizational dependencies.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Roadmap planning

Job description

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Product Owner to co-lead a large-scale global platform transformation.

The assignment covers three tightly connected objectives:

Drive adoption and value realization of the strategic platform.

Lead the phase-out of the existing legacy solution, ensuring a controlled transition.

Drive global deployment and adoption across markets, navigating significant differences in needs, readiness, dependencies, and existing ways of working.

This is a large, complex, and highly interconnected product landscape. The Senior Product Owner will need to create clarity across multiple teams and stakeholders, establish a coherent product and transition direction, manage competing priorities and dependencies, and drive the transformation toward measurable business and user outcomes.

This is not primarily a backlog-management role. It requires a senior product leader who can connect strategy, platform evolution, adoption, migration, and execution across a global organization.

Describe the scope of the consultant’s assignment.

Key responsibilities

• Shape and continuously evolve the product strategy for the platform and its global adoption.
• Translate the strategic direction into a clear multi-year roadmap, balancing platform evolution, market adoption, migration and legacy phase-out.
• Define clear outcomes and priorities across a complex landscape of teams, markets, and dependencies.
• Make strategic trade-offs between global standardization and legitimate local needs.
• Create clarity where requirements, dependencies, or solutions are not yet fully defined.
• Ensure short-term deployment decisions to support the long-term platform direction.
• The underlying framework expects Senior Product Owners to operate with a broader strategic horizon, shape strategy across associated products/components, and align several teams around shared direction.
• Drive adoption of the platform across a global, multi-market environment.
• Establish a clear approach for sequencing and prioritizing deployments based on value, dependencies, and readiness.
• Work closely with markets to understand needs and identify barriers to adoption.
• Ensure market requirements are understood without unnecessarily fragmenting the global product.
• Coordinate product readiness, market readiness, and organizational dependencies.
• Track adoption and outcomes, using evidence to identify where additional product improvements or interventions are needed.

Legacy system phase-out

• Lead the product perspective of the transition from the legacy solution to the strategic platform.
• Establish clear transition priorities and ensure legacy dependencies are understood.
• Balance investment between the strategic platform and what is genuinely required to maintain the legacy solution during transition.
• Drive alignment on migration requirements and phase-out priorities.
• Challenge requirements that create unnecessary dependency on the legacy landscape.
• Maintain focus on the target state while managing the realities of the transition.

Complex cross-team execution

• Lead across multiple teams, products/components, and organizational boundaries.
• Identify and actively manage critical dependencies, risks, and constraints.
• Establish alignment were ownership and accountability across team or functional boundaries.
• Make difficult prioritization decisions when capacity, market needs, and strategic priorities compete.
• Ensure product, technology, business, and deployment activities remain connected to common outcomes.
• Maintain momentum in an environment with significant ambiguity and change.

Senior stakeholder leadership

• Operate as a strategic partner to senior stakeholders rather than simply collecting and managing requirements.
• Navigate a broad global stakeholder landscape spanning markets, business functions, technology teams and other product areas.
• Build alignment across stakeholders with different priorities, constraints, and levels of readiness.
• Influence without formal authority and resolve conflicting perspectives.
• Communicate complex product and transformation topics in a clear, decision-oriented way.
• Escalate selectively while independently resolving issues appropriate to the role.
• Strategic alignment across domains, functions, countries and external partners is part of the Senior Product Owner expectation in the framework.
• Define clear measures for platform adoption, migration progress, product performance, and business/user outcomes.
• Ensure deployment is treated as adoption and value realization, not simply technical rollout.
• Use data and market feedback to continuously adapt priorities.
• Maintain visibility of whether the transformation is generating its intended value.
• Drive corrective action when adoption or outcomes fall short of expectations.

Candidate profile

Day-to-day task / Key responsibilities

• Shape and continuously evolve the product strategy for the platform and its global adoption.
• Translate the strategic direction into a clear multi-year roadmap, balancing platform evolution, market adoption, migration and legacy phase-out.
• Define clear outcomes and priorities across a complex landscape of teams, markets, and dependencies.
• Make strategic trade-offs between global standardization and legitimate local needs.
• Create clarity where requirements, dependencies, or solutions are not yet fully defined.
• Ensure short-term deployment decisions to support the long-term platform direction.
• The underlying framework expects Senior Product Owners to operate with a broader strategic horizon, shape strategy across associated products/components, and align several teams around shared direction.
• Drive adoption of the platform across a global, multi-market environment.
• Establish a clear approach for sequencing and prioritizing deployments based on value, dependencies, and readiness.
• Work closely with markets to understand needs and identify barriers to adoption.
• Ensure market requirements are understood without unnecessarily fragmenting the global product.
• Coordinate product readiness, market readiness, and organizational dependencies.
• Track adoption and outcomes, using evidence to identify where additional product improvements or interventions are needed.