Product Owner

• As a Product Owner, you are responsible for the strategy and execution of your product roadmap within the Vessel Visit domain, with a strong focus on the multi-year MNSW program (Maritime National Single Window).

• You will join the Vessel Visit domain, a team with a crucial role in handling vessel visits to Dutch ports and a central position within the port community.

• You are stepping into a strategic and impactful development for Portbase. The course towards MNSW has been set, but you will help shape how we realize this together with the community, government, and port companies.

As a Product Owner, you play a crucial role in translating the strategic objectives of Portbase and the MNSW program into a clear roadmap. You are responsible for the further development of services within the Vessel Visit domain and ensure that the interests of customers, government, and the port community converge in future-proof solutions.

You operate in a complex environment in which you interface with, among others, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, port companies, port authorities, shipping companies, agents, charterers, and other logistics parties. You understand the various interests and know how to connect them into a shared vision and approach.

You are described as a connector who moves easily between business, IT, and external stakeholders. You are able to reduce complex issues to concrete products and services that add maximum value to the community. In doing so, you dare to make sharp choices and know how to bring stakeholders along in priorities and decision-making.

As a Product Owner, you are responsible for maximizing the value of your products and services. Together with a multidisciplinary DevOps team, you work on reliable, scalable, and future-proof solutions. You switch effortlessly between operational issues, strategic roadmap development, and programmatic challenges arising from MNSW.

In collaboration with the Program Manager, the DevOps team, Business Analysis, other Product Owners, Architecture, Legal, Marketing, Communication, and other teams, you contribute to the realization of one of the largest change programs within Portbase. In doing so, you have a lot of contact with customers, government agencies, port companies, and internal stakeholders.

• Communicating and further developing the vision for services within the Vessel Visit domain and its role within the future MNSW landscape.

• Following relevant market developments in the field of maritime logistics, European regulation, EMSWe, digitalization of port processes, and data exchange between public and private parties.

• The (further) development of your services. You manage and prioritize the backlog and roadmap (2-3 years ahead) and create support for this among both internal and external stakeholders.

• Representing Portbase within programs, working groups, and consultations regarding MNSW and maritime digitalization.

• Collaborating with your Tech Lead on a roadmap in which both functional and technical further development of the service portfolio are secured.

• Aligning interests between different chain partners such as port companies, government agencies, shipping companies, agents, and charterers.

• Contributing to the preparation, realization, and implementation of the MNSW program and its further integration within the Port Community System.

The cohesion between the different business lines and products is becoming increasingly important within Portbase. With the arrival of MNSW, this integral collaboration becomes even more important. Together with the DevOps team, other Product Owners, Business Analyst, Business Manager, Architects, and stakeholders both within and outside Portbase, you will work on future-proof services for the Dutch and European maritime sector.

• You work together with the community on the smartest ports in the world.

• A key role within one of the most strategic programs of Portbase and Dutch port logistics.

• Office within walking distance of Blaak Station and the Markthal.

• A pleasant working atmosphere including a relaxation room and a well-catered communal lunch or drinks every month.

• Innovative working environment.

• A pleasant culture; we work together towards one goal in which we deliver value to the logistics community. You can feel this in everything and notice it in the collaboration.

• Possess HBO/WO working and thinking level.

• Have gained at least 5 years of experience as a Product Owner (or a similar role) within an IT environment.

• Have experience with product development, stakeholder management, and working in complex chains with multiple stakeholders.

• Have an Agile mindset and possess relevant certifications such as Scrum and Agile.

• Possess excellent communicative, social, and organizational skills.

• Move easily between strategic issues, program management, and operational execution.

• Are stress-resistant and maintain an overview within an environment with many stakeholders, dependencies, and changing priorities.

• Have an affinity with digital transformation, platform development, and data-driven services.

• Have knowledge of maritime logistics, vessel handling, port processes, or government chains. Experience with public-private partnerships and/or laws and regulations is a strong advantage.

• Get energy from complex change processes where technology, business, and government come together.

We operate as an IT company and a logistics service provider. That combination makes us strong. We know the market, the players, and their interests. We bring parties together, initiate chain agreements, and develop solutions that keep Dutch ports and their supply chains attractive and competitive.

With over 90 million transactions per year via 43 different services, we support the entire port community. From shipping companies to terminals, from agents to customs: everyone benefits from efficient, reliable, and secure data exchange.

Portbase has existed for over 20 years and has developed into one of the most progressive Port Community Systems in the world. What began as a digitalization effort has grown into an essential platform for Dutch port logistics.

With the arrival of the Maritime National Single Window, Portbase is once again on the threshold of an important transformation. In the coming years, we will work together with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, port companies, and the port community on a future-proof digital infrastructure for the maritime sector.

As a Product Owner within Team Vessel Visit, you will get the chance to make a direct contribution to this development and thereby to the future of Dutch ports.

With this vacancy, we recruit our new colleague ourselves. We therefore do not appreciate acquisition.