Description

HR Product Manager with more than 15 years experience in HRM and HCM solutions (Cloud and On-Premise). My personal inclinations, combined with my IT studies, led me to embark on the career path in R&D, taking on positions with increasing responsibility in which I put into practice design skills and a strong orientation to business objectives, planning, management and development of employees.

Highly motivated in designing products that offer added value to users, I had a firm desire in deepening my knowledge of functional expertise and thus became a point of reference in the HCM field.

This pathway has enabled me to combine technical activities with those of a more pronounced consultative and functional approach thereby acquiring significant HR consultancy experience with major national and international Clients, HCM application Product Management, dealing also with relationships with the supplier partners, Presales and Project Management, hence also consolidating relationship and communication skills.

Languages

Dutch
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

The Hague (up to 50km)

Exact
Senior Commercial Product Manager HR & Payroll
January 2020 - Today (6 years and 5 months)
Delft, Netherlands
Visma Software BV
Senior Product Manager HCM Software
February 2015 - December 2019 (4 years and 10 months)
Amersfoort, Netherlands
As the Senior Product Manager for the HR core domain at Visma/Raet I am responsible for setting the strategy and product vision and to clearly articulate the business value to the product tea m, so they understand the intent behind the new product functionality. I own the strategy behind the product along with its road map and steer the work with teams to build what matters in the right order. So I plan for what teams will deliver and when they will deliver it for which release. I am also involved in the creative process of generating, developing, and curating new ideas. I collect, curate, and promote the most relevant ideas into features and ensure that key feedback and requests are seamlessly integrated into my product planning and development processes. Key Responsibilities
•Responsible and driver behind the development of a brand new HR system for the international market with 7 scrum teams in 3 countries
•What gets implemented and adherence to plan (acceptance criteria, validation, release)
•People management for 7 Product Owners
•Contribute to the Roadmap through refinements with different (external) stakeholders
•Creation of the vision, objectives, budgets, portfolio backlog (highest level of roadmap)
•Define, prioritize and manage the program backlog: based on Roadmap, architectural inputs, customer wishes
•Accountable for refinement of roadmap items to Epics/features in cooperation with my Product owners
•Serve as content authority for the release train (vision, what goes in what release)
•Support the organization in customer facing activities
•Actively share product knowledge in organization with user groups, but also with internal stakeholders : Management, Board, preSales and Consultancy
•Actively involved in the Program Increment (PI) meetings (every 3 months) Working agile, using SCRUM and SAFE. Scrum teams in Netherlands, India and Madrid Travel international to work at the different Raet offices (25%)
UNIT4 Group
Corporate Product Manager – "HR & Payroll"
December 2012 - January 2015 (2 years and 1 month)
Houston, TX 77091, USA
The main objective in this role as a Corporate Product Manager was preparing the future of the HR & Payroll product area for the Agresso ERP suite, making sure that R&D could focus on projects with the biggest impact and return as well as, through working with the highest possible quality business and user requirements, enable R&D to deliver solutions that make the difference at the moment of launch. The primary responsibility in this role was managing the process all the way from the inception of the idea(s) with different stakeholders, business case management, through market research, to the writing and hand-over of all detailed business- and user requirements to the R&D development teams and following developments closely to make sure that the delivered solution meets the market requirements. Success in this role required the development of strong working relationships with other UNIT4 subsidiaries, customers (cross country/cross sector) and independent market sources to elicit information and requirements from the market. Main (working)countries Norway, Sweden, BeNeLux, UK, Germany and North-America. Development teams in Oslo, Granada and Wroclaw, Agile development using SCRUM. Travel international to the different UNIT4 offices, visit customers and do presentations at international conferences (30-50%).