Mobile Robot Portfolio Manager- Kion Mobile

Automation is your passion, you see yourself as a central figure in bringing next generation thinking to a well established warehouse industry. Managing complexity is your strength. You are capable in defining features and associated business value with respect to Cloud, Enterprises, and Mechatronic based systems for warehousing. You enjoy the journey as much as the destination. You enjoy managing a broad portfolio of products at different stages of their product lifecycle from sunrise to sunset.

Working as the key global member of KION Mobile Automation, you manage the existing and future products at the feature level, interfacing with Product Managers of KION Operating Units and regions to create a scaled approach to product launch and retirement.

You are data driven, balancing the technology and capabilities against business value to continue the world class offerings for Dematic, Still and Linde operating units.

The Mobile Robot Portfolio Manager reports to the Director of Product and Process as a part of the global Mobile Automation Product Requirement Management group within KION Mobile Automation.

What we offer:

- The opportunity to work in a fast growing technological company
- An international environment
- Flexible working hours
- The ability to work from home (40%)
- An attractive salary package (car, meal vouchers, insurances,...)
- 36 vacation days

Tasks and Qualifications:
Key Responsibilities:

- Strong interaction with KION’s Operating Units sales and product management.
- Representing the voice of the OUs for the agile release train (ART) and work with OUs (as well as product owners) to constantly understand and communicate their needs.
- Participate in confirming the business value of the proposed use cases and their solutions.
- Organizing and ensuring the transfer of innovation into the product/project groups according to KIONs core strategy and requirements of individual OUs underpinning advanced intercultural leadership and willingness to do international travel (30%)
- Ensuring timely and accurate reporting of department performance and project performance including co-design of the respective project specifications
- Develop and communicate the program vision and roadmap as part of the KION Mobile Automation Portfolio Strategy
- The Portfolio Manager continuously develops and communicates the vision to the development teams and defines the features of the system.
- In collaboration with the architects they also define and maintains the Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs) to help ensure that the solution meets relevant standards and other system quality requirements.
- Manage and prioritize the flow of work through the program Kanban and into the program backlog ensuring the availability of sufficient features ready to deploy in the backlog at all times.
- Build up an effective requirement management/product owner team.
- forming an effective extended requirement management/product owner team is the key to efficient and effective development.
- The Portfolio Manager will work very close together with the MCI (Market and Competition Intelligence) Team to Design a comprehensive evaluation matrix which assess the mobile automation market and competition on a global scale.

Education
- Master degree with a technical focus preferred. Additional economic degree desirable (MBA)

Experience & Skills
- Strong team and collaboration skills.
- Effective communication skills with the ability to properly communicate to a variety of audiences.
- Experience executing effort in a Scrum framework.
- Ability to understand the customer(s) point of view, and how that guides the project’s requirements.
- Eagerness to guide a team to their goals.
- Action-oriented with a positive & engaging energy.
- Understanding of the fundamentals of iterative development.
- Technical ability in mechatronics or software development.
- Practical experience in automation and robotics is necessary. Affinity with AGV / AMR is highly required. Mobile automation should make your day
- Valid knowledge of software development is more than a plus.
- Fluent in English language (additional languages such as French, German, Dutch or Chinese are a plus)
- Leadership responsibility within cross-functional multi-disciplinary teams of a global matrix organization
- High ability to think and act entrepreneurially considering risk and opportunity analysis to compile decision proposals
- Experienced within global project business and execution
- Team player with exceptional interpersonal skills, such as communication and analytical skills and the ability to lead a global high performing team
- Willingness to go the extra mile to anticipate, understand and respond to customer’s needs

Direction of others
- Typically, direction of tasks and coordination of teams along with team leads. No direct reports.

Key Working Relationships
- Primarily intra-organizational contacts.

Travel

20% (Including international)