Job Description
We are seeking an experienced and passionate Product Manager to drive the future of Fugro’s Data Backbone. As the worlds leading Geo-data company, we use planes, trains, cars, boats, submarines, and robots to map and model the environment and its infrastructure so that structures can be reliably built, run, and maintained. Fugro involves various data acquisition, processing, and delivery steps to service its customers.
In this role, you act as owner of the Data Backbone. You work together with architects, product owners, developers and management to ensure a quality index of this data and make it accessible and visible to engineers across the globe. By doing this, you reduce costs and improve efficiency throughout the organization.
You are the ideal candidate if you employ a customer-centric approach, engaging closely with users to understand their needs and iteratively improve the product through continuous feedback. You work closely with design, subject matter experts and solution architects to ensure, usability, business viability, and technical feasibility.
Your leadership skills in combination with data platform experience is essential to shape the future of our Data Backbone. We invite those to apply who are ready to push the boundaries of technology in the world of Geo-data.
Your role
You define the business and technology vision of the Data Backbone in collaboration with different domain experts, business representatives, solution architect and lead engineers;
You lead the whole process from discovery, build, adopt and run cycle. And during the discovery phase you map the current Data Backbone in various global regions and define a to-be standard;
You make sure that the assumptions and designs are validated before major build investment;
You guide the delivery teams towards the required situation;
You create continuous discovery and improvement process to feed in the requirements from the users and set the necessary prioritization criteria in the delivery phase;
You organize the adoption of Data Backbone in various Fugro regions globally with clear rollout plans and support;
You define OKR for your product and govern it with stakeholders.
Your track record
You have extensive experience in similar roles such as digital product manager;
You have extensive experience in leading cross functional teams, project management and stakeholder management;
You have experience in developing data platforms and knowledge on (meta) data management;
You are familiar with DataBricks, Apache Kafka, and AWS;
Experience with Geo-data is considered a strong plus;
What Fugro offers
A competitive salary;
29 holidays per year based on a fulltime employment (of which 4 are appointed by Fugro management) and the possibility to purchase 12 additional days;
Extensive career & training opportunities both nationally and internationally;
Flexible working hours and the ability to work from home in accordance with your manager and corporate policies;
Commuting allowance;
Modern pension scheme;
Collective health insurance;
Possibility to register with our corporate fitness plan;
Coaching options through our EAP (Employee Assistance Program).
Are you interested?
Please visit our Company Page to find out more on what it is like to work at Fugro.
For further information, please contact Bram van der Ploeg, Talent Acquisition Partner, +31 6 3458 0051.
After you have applied
You will receive an automated confirmation-email of the receipt of your application;
When we see a match, we will invite you for the first interview within a couple of days. Of course, you will also receive a message if we will not invite you;
After a successful first round, you will be invited for the second round;
If we are both still positive after the second interview, we will make you an offer, and with that we hope to welcome you at Fugro!
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Disclaimer for recruitment agencies:
Fugro does not accept any unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies. Acquisition to Fugro Recruitment or any Fugro employee is not appreciated.