smartwith heart
Product Owner Solver (Mathematical Programming)
Ghent, Belgium - Product Development department
Are you able to define a clear product direction in a complex technical domain? Do you enjoy working closely with stakeholders to understand business goals and translate strategic direction into concrete product outcomes? And are you ready to join a place where smart solutions meet human collaboration?
If so, read on! You’d make an excellent Product Owner!
Our offer
We offer you more than just a job. Our culture and benefits inspire you to become the best version of yourself.
- Continuous learning: Access customized training, coaching programs, and on-the-job development opportunities.
- Flexibility: Flex your schedule with working from home, adaptable hours, and the autonomy to shape your routine.
- Benefits: An attractive salary package including an optional company car, a bike incentive program, additional extralegal vacation days, and other competitive benefits.
- Collaborative culture: Cross-team collaboration and creative challenges that encourage you to share knowledge, celebrate wins, and grow together.
- Innovation: Encouragement to think differently through cross-team collaboration and innovation challenges
- Well-being: Thrive in a workplace that supports your physical and mental health by promoting a wide range of facilities and activities like birthday events, sports sessions, in-house coaches, and healthy meal options.
Our company
We’re a leading game changer that optimizes supply chains with our very own smart software and services. With a team of 1,400+ passionate, creative minds from over 70 nationalities, we help the world’s largest companies to run their supply chains more efficiently and sustainably. Our customers include BASF, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Nestlé, and Procter & Gamble. Ready to be smart with heart? Join our team where technical expertise and human connection create solutions that scale globally and make a lasting impression.
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Your challenge
As Product Owner for Mathematical Programming, you are responsible for defining and driving the product direction of our optimization engine within our planning platform. You ensure that this capability evolves in line with company priorities, while serving a diverse customer base across multiple industries with varying optimization needs. You capture market needs, formulate value propositions, and translate these insights into product requirements.
You are responsible for:
- Defining a clear product vision and positioning for mathematical programming.
- Translating company strategy into a coherent roadmap, balancing maintenance, performance improvements, and future evolution.
- Acting as the single point of accountability for product decisions, ensuring clarity, consistency, and transparency in scope and priorities.
- Engaging with customers and internal stakeholders to understand needs and translate them into actionable requirements.
- Clearly articulating the “why” and “why now” behind product decisions to align stakeholders and the development squad.
- Contributing to pre-sales and customer engagements where deep understanding of the domain is required.
- Working closely with the development squad to refine, prioritize, and clarify backlog items to ensure effective delivery.
About you
Essential talents and qualifications:
- A Master’s or PhD in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, or similar. Alternatively, the equivalent by experience.
- Experience in software product management or product ownership.
- Knowledge of mathematical programming techniques.
- The ability to operate in a complex technical domain.
- Proficient in Agile methodologies.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- A desire to take ownership and deliver results.
Bonus points if you have:
- Solid knowledge of supply chain concepts and planning solutions or solution subdomains.
- Prior experience in one of our core industries.
- Experience as a product owner within a Scrum team.
- Familiarity with artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML)-driven systems or hybrid solution approaches.
- Technical affinity (e.g., programming).
- But most of all, you’re fun to work with and a great team player!
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Your future
We find the perfect intersection of your talents and our evolving needs. Our talent management program supports your personal development and empowers you to build a career in line with your ambitions.Many of our team members who start as a product owner grow into the role of product lead, product architect, product expert or team manager.