Product Owner IT NS Train Modernization

Working at NS means that you can make *the* difference in the dynamic world of sustainable mobility. You help keep the Netherlands accessible, for everyone. At NS, you get a lot of freedom. The possibilities to develop yourself are great. We promise you that no day is the same. And as one of the most beautiful employers in the Netherlands, we have even more to offer. For this position, including:

• A salary between € 3,743.- and € 6,491.- gross per month, depending on your knowledge and experience (based on scale 60 and a 36-hour work week).
• A 36-hour work week.
• 144 hours of statutory leave (based on a 36-hour work week) supplemented with extra leave depending on age (minimum one week).
• The possibility to exchange 3 national holidays for 3 non-national holidays.
• 3% end-of-year bonus, 8% holiday allowance, and an excellent pension scheme.
• Your train travel in 2nd class is free; travel in 1st class is possible with a small personal contribution.
• Your family travels for free during off-peak hours.
• Discount on European train travel once you have worked at NS for 1 year.
• A choice plan including, among others, a bicycle plan, extra pension accrual, or extra vacation days.

Want to know more? Then view the Employment Conditions here .

• You will receive end-to-end ownership over products that contribute directly to the availability, reliability, and safety of the rolling stock.
• You determine direction and priorities at strategic and tactical levels, precisely where IT, production, maintenance, data, and engineering converge.
• You work with experienced professionals and specialists in a complex chain, with both the space and the mandate to translate vision into measurable product value.

Within the Maintenance cluster, you will take product ownership for the Manufacturing Execution System (MES): the business-critical heart of the production line for wheelset overhaul. You will develop a future-oriented product vision, safeguard operational continuity, and accelerate digitalization. In the long term, you will expand your portfolio with INFOR LN[Av1].

You ensure that MES optimally supports people and processes and that investments demonstrably contribute to the ambitions of NS Train Modernization. Together with the Scrum Master and the development team, you create focus and tempo, while you independently steer on vision, value, and priority. Additionally, you play a key role in the migration from Baan to INFOR LN, the ERP system for the NSTM locations in Haarlem and Berkel-Enschot.

This is a role with visible impact. You bring IT, data, and rolling stock maintenance together, foresee dependencies, and make well-founded decisions in a playing field where continuity, safety, and innovation must constantly be in balance.

As a connecting representative of the customer, user, and business, you realize together with the team:

• stable management and purposeful further development of products within the maintenance domain;
• clear governance, effective collaboration, and proactive decision-making with internal and external chain partners;
• continuous improvement of availability, reliability, user value, and (cyber)security.

Your main responsibilities

• You translate a convincing product vision into concrete objectives, a supported strategy, and a realistic roadmap, and make the contribution to business goals visible.
• You direct the product backlog, prioritize sharply on value, risk, and dependencies[Av2], and provide the team with clear frameworks to deliver predictably.
• You translate complex business needs into clear requirements and acceptance criteria and monitor the quality of delivered functionality based on the jointly established Definition of Done.
• You steer on outcome instead of just output and make the realized value for business, user, and operations measurable.
• You create support at director, management, and team levels[Av3], break deadlocks in the face of conflicting interests, and strengthen ownership and collaboration.

At NS Train Modernization in Haarlem, you work in the midst of an impressive technical operation. In large production halls, approximately 400 technical specialists work on major maintenance and modernization of trains. It is precisely the combination of scale, physical processes, and high requirements for safety and availability that makes this an environment in which mature product management delivers directly noticeable results.

NS Train Modernization handles the overhaul, modernization, and damage repair of trains and the maintenance of axles and wheelsets. We work project-driven in a complex chain with multiple departments, locations, and disciplines. This requires overview, decisiveness, and the ability to connect strategy and execution.

Are you the experienced Product Owner who determines direction, connects complex interests, and helps teams deliver demonstrable value? Then we would love to meet you.

Apply directly (but certainly before October 25th) via the application button. Within a few minutes, you will receive an automatic application confirmation; we will respond to your application within 2 weeks.

You can address your application to Audrey van der Linde, corporate recruiter technology.

Any questions about the application process? Email our front office via recruitment@ns.nl

Would you prefer telephone contact? Then call our front office at 088-6713666.

• A background check, including a VOG (Certificate of Conduct), is part of the application procedure. Please also consider the signing of an integrity statement and a non-disclosure agreement.
• We believe it is important that everyone who works with us feels at home. You can see this in everything we do, and therefore also in our hiring policy. Read more here.

With this vacancy, we wish to recruit our new colleague ourselves. This is therefore NOT a call for acquisition.

This position cannot be filled on an interim basis. For that, please view our hiring page.