Manager - Head of IT Product

How you will make an impact

Are you ready to lead the digital solutions that shape the employee experience across Arla? As Head of IT Product, HR, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for a critical HR product area, ensuring business value, strong performance, and continuous improvement. Working closely with senior HR and IT stakeholders, you will drive product direction, challenge priorities, and lead a high-performing team in a complex and fast-paced environment.

Your key responsibilities will include

• Providing strategic and operational leadership for the HR IT product area, ensuring alignment with business objectives, people strategy and long-term value creation.
• Building strong relationships with senior business and IT stakeholders, effectively influencing, challenging and aligning diverse priorities in a complex environment.
• Driving product strategy, roadmap execution and delivery of business outcomes while maintaining high standards of operational performance and service excellence.
• Taking ownership of budgets, financial planning, vendor partnerships, risk management and investment decisions within the product area.
• Leading, coaching and developing a high-performing team while fostering accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Managing complex cross-functional initiatives and ensuring effective communication across business, product and technology teams.
• Ensuring compliance, security and governance standards are met while supporting innovation and transformation initiatives.

What will make you successful?

To succeed in this role, you are a strong and resilient leader who thrives in a dynamic stakeholder environment. You are comfortable with challenging status quo, driving alignment through constructive debate and making decisions in situations with competing priorities.

You combine people leadership, business understanding and product management expertise, enabling you to bridge the gap between HR, technology and business operations.