Senior Product Owner

Yara International; Singapore; Vor Ort; SGD 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Yara International in Singapore is seeking a Senior Product Owner to drive the strategy and execution of digital applications such as YaraConnect and YaraFarmcare. You will be the voice of customers and the business within an agile team, translating requirements into deliverables and ensuring an exceptional user experience and business value.

The ideal candidate leads vision, roadmap, and product delivery across agronomy, business, and technology, bridging multiple stakeholders, and mentoring

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor degree in a technical field.
• Minimum 5 years as product owner/manager for digital products.
• Strong data analytics and market insight skills.
• Proficient in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Aufgaben

• Define and advocate product vision and roadmap for digital in agriculture.
• Translate objectives into a clear backlog and requirements.
• Create product requirements documents aligning with stakeholders.
• Manage backlog, acceptance criteria, and prioritize delivery.
• Coordinate product launches and releases with business stakeholders.
• Track OKRs and product metrics to guide enhancements.
• Collaborate with leadership to define long‑term roadmap.
• Mentor the team and foster collaboration.

Kenntnisse

Product strategy

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies (Scrum/SAFe)

Requirements gathering

Data analytics

Leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Jobbeschreibung

We at Yara are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world’s key challenges - resource scarcity, food insecurity and environmental change.

About The Unit

Yara grows knowledge to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet, to fulfill our vision of a collaborative society, a world without hunger and a planet respected. To meet these commitments, we have taken the lead in developing digital farming tools for precision farming and work closely with partners throughout the whole food value chain to develop more climate-friendly crop nutrition solutions. In addition, we are committed to working towards sustainable mineral fertilizer production. We foster an open culture of diversity and inclusion that promotes the safety and integrity of our employees, contractors, business partners, and society at large. Founded in 1905 to solve the emerging famine in Europe, Yara has a worldwide presence of about 17,000 employees and operations in over 60 countries.

Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Owner to drive the strategy and execution of the digital application (YaraConnect, YaraFarmcare). You will be the voice of the customers and the business within our Agile development team, translating business requirement into detailed, actionable deliverables. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, strong collaborator and passionate advocate for delivering exceptional user experience and business value.

He/she is responsible for driving the vision, strategy, and execution of digital products that enhance user engagement, agronomic insights, and value-chain connectivity for the fertilizer business. This role bridges agronomy, business, and technology teams to deliver user‑centric, scalable, and data‑driven digital solutions across the agriculture ecosystem.

• Define and advocate product vision and value proposition for digital in agriculture,
• Translate business objectives into a clear product roadmap that supports the company’s growth and sustainability agenda, customer engagement (channel and farmer)
• Responsible in preparing and executing the product requirement document, aligning with the business stakeholders/requestor
• Assess value, develop user stories, define acceptance criteria, prioritise product backlog, and track project status, to ensure delivery of high-value products on time and within budget.
• Facilitate and obtain signoff and acceptance from business.
• Monitoring and evaluating product progress throughout the product life cycle & effectively communicating progress, challenges and trade-offs
• Be the main point of contact to orchestrate the launch of products and its subsequent release capabilities and bridge gaps between business/user needs with the team
• Define and track objective key results (OKR) and relevant success metrics of the feature performance to facilitate data-driven decisions for subsequent product enhancement
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and the leadership team to define and communicate the product vision and long‑term roadmap of the product.
• Provide mentorship to the broader team, foster a culture of collaboration, manage team dynamics and set clear team goals to create both successful development of solutions and an exciting work environment and experience.

Profile

• Possess a Bachelor in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience as a product owner / manager, preferably someone who managed the complete lifecycle of digital products.
• Demonstrates strong data and analytical thinking skills, with the ability to analyze market and competitive data to derive meaningful insights.
• Familiar with product development and agile methodology such as Scrum, Kanban and SAFe.
• Ability to effectively capture and communicate complex business/technical requirements.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making making and stakeholder management, with the ability to influence key internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to understand and actively contribute to technical discussions with Engineering teams, supported by a good understanding of software terminology.
• Able to lead large or cross-functional teams, resolve conflicts, manage alignment with multiple stakeholders, and communicate effectively with senior tech leads, executives and large audience
• Strong understanding of agricultural value chains, digital platforms, and smallholder engagement models.

Yara is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive work environment is not only the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. To deliver on this, Yara has firmly anchored Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) in our business strategy and has more than 400 employees worldwide involved in D&I ambassadors networks. As part of our recruitment process, where permitted by local law, we may conduct reference and background checks. These checks will only be performed when deemed necessary for the nature of the job. Candidates will be informed by HR before any background checks are initiated.