Product Owner / Project Manager E-commerce

Job ID: ID Product Owner/Project Manager

Full time

Bucharest

Middle

14-10-2026

The Product Owner / Project Manager is responsible for coordinating the development and rollout of company's global e-commerce platform and related digital solutions. The role acts as the key interface between the internal development team, company business units, Group IT and external suppliers. The position combines product ownership with hands-on project management. The main objective is to translate business requirements into clear development activities, maintain priorities and development plans, coordinate internal and external resources, manage dependencies and ensure projects are delivered with the expected scope, quality and timeline. The Product Owner / Project Manager will provide transparency across projects and actively identify risks, blockers and resource constraints before they impact delivery.

Responsibilities

Product Ownership
• Act as an interface between business stakeholders and technical development teams.
• Collect, understand and challenge business requirements from local Beijer Ref companies.
• Translate business requirements into clear functional requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and prioritise the product and development backlog together with the Senior Group E-commerce Manager.
• Ensure development tickets contain sufficient business and functional information before entering development.
• Coordinate backlog refinement and preparation of upcoming development work.
• Clarify requirements during development and support developers with business decisions.
• Ensure developed functionality fulfils agreed requirements before release.
• Maintain a structured roadmap for features, integrations and platform improvements.
• Balance local business requirements with global platform standardisation and reusability

Project Management
• Plan and coordinate e-commerce development, migration and rollout projects.
• Develop realistic project plans, milestones, dependencies and delivery timelines.
• Coordinate activities between internal developers, local business teams and external suppliers.
• Track project progress against agreed timelines, scope and deliverables.
• Identify delays, blockers, risks and resource constraints early and initiate corrective actions.
• Organise regular project status meetings and follow up on agreed actions.
• Maintain clear ownership and deadlines for project activities.
• Coordinate testing, UAT, bug fixing and go-live preparation.
• Ensure readiness criteria are fulfilled before production releases.
• Coordinate multiple parallel e-commerce projects and rollouts.
• Support resource and capacity planning across development teams and suppliers.
• Escalate significant project risks or delays to the Senior Group E-commerce Manager.

Supplier Management
• Coordinate work packages with external development and technology suppliers.
• Ensure suppliers receive clear requirements, priorities and deadlines.
• Monitor supplier delivery against agreed scope, effort and timeline.
• Review estimates and development proposals together with technical colleagues.
• Follow up proactively on outstanding actions and delayed deliverables.
• Coordinate responsibilities where development is distributed across multiple suppliers.
• Support the evaluation of supplier capacity and delivery performance.

Communication & Governance
• Provide regular and transparent project status reporting.
• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies and upcoming milestones to stakeholders.
• Facilitate meetings between business and technical teams.
• Prepare steering-group or management updates where required.
• Maintain project documentation, decisions, timelines and action lists.
• Establish and continuously improve project-management and development workflows.
• Support Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, refinement, reviews and retrospectives.
• Ensure decisions and requirements are documented in systems such as Jira and Confluence.

Requirements

Education and Experience

• Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Digital Business, Project Management or a comparable field; equivalent professional experience is also acceptable.
• Approximately 3–5 years of experience in digital project management, product ownership, e-commerce or software development projects.
• Experience working with software development teams.
• Experience managing projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience working with external software-development partners or suppliers.
• Experience with agile development methodologies, preferably Scrum.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence or similar tools.
• E-commerce experience is strongly preferred.
• Technical understanding of APIs, ERP/PIM integrations and modern web applications is an advantage.
• Fluent spoken and written English.

Competencies

Project Management
• Project planning and milestone management.
• Scope, dependency and risk management.
• Resource and capacity planning.
• Progress tracking and reporting.
• Meeting facilitation and action tracking.
• Ability to manage several projects simultaneously.
• Strong follow-up and organisational skills.
Product Ownership
• Requirements gathering and analysis.
• Writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Backlog management and prioritisation.
• Stakeholder expectation management.
• Understanding of agile software-development processes.
• Ability to translate business requirements into actionable development tasks.
• Ability to distinguish between global platform requirements and local customisations.
Technical Understanding
Knowledge or understanding of the following is beneficial:
• E-commerce platforms
• APIs and system integrations
• ERP and PIM systems
• Headless applications
• Frontend and backend development concepts
• Testing and UAT
• Release and deployment processes
• Shopware 6 or comparable e-commerce platforms
Communication
• Strong stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to challenge requirements constructively.
• Clear written documentation.
• Confident communication with local business management and external suppliers.
• Ability to handle conflicting requirements and priorities.

Behavioral Characteristics

• Highly structured and organised
• Proactive
• Strong sense of ownership
• Solution-oriented
• Analytical
• Reliable
• Diplomatic but persistent
• Strong communicator
• Comfortable following up and challenging stakeholders
• Able to work in an international and multicultural environment
• Able to remain focused when coordinating multiple projects and priorities

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