Product owner - Tieto Caretech (m/f/d)

At Tieto Caretech you’ll get a chance to provide patients and end users with product offerings that help them in their life, reinventing the world for good. If that sounds interesting, please keep on reading.

About us Tieto

Caretech is modernizing the Nordic health and social care sector with modular, open, and interoperable software. We develop and deliver high quality software solutions and services that enable healthcare and welfare professionals to do their work even better and with higher efficiency - have more time to care.

We are a global team of professionals working on providing products and services to different sectors from intensive care to laboratory and social care. In addition to working closely with our customers, we also have our own products that we build and develop for various fields in society. From enabling healthcare professionals to spend more valuable time with their patients to providing data for professional athletes to achieve even better results, we make all that possible. With us you can build technology for the good of society and make your mark on the health and wellbeing of people in need.

About the role

Do you want to work with a modern product portfolio for the next generation of offering to our welfare industry and society? Do you have deep domain knowledge about the municipality’s welfare and social care? Do you have experience of working as an economist in a municipality or have been working in Lifecare or a similar system? 

As part of our growth strategy, we are seeking a skilled Product owner that help us to continue to build the best solutions for the Swedish municipal Health & Care market. 

As part of our Lifecare product team, you will primarily be responsible for the portfolio's solution towards the Swedish municipal Health & Care market in the area of Compensation Welfare technology (Lifecare Ersättning). You will help build our product portfolio from existing ideas, develop new ideas / offers based on your experiences, our customers' needs and wishes as well as changes and requirements from the market. We are today the market leader in the area, and this is a position we intend to maintain in the future.  
 

In this role you will

• Maximizing the value for the product and leading the development team. Create and prioritize items in backlog based on costumer value and business benefits.
• In your daily work you meet our customers and analyze their needs. Through your understanding of our strategy, you will prepare an operational product plan that sets the course for the future. You interpret legal requirements and ensure that our solutions support them. You keep in touch with authorities and partners. You will work closely with colleagues in the product team and with our development teams to define, explain and prioritize the needs with the goal of transforming our customers' needs into the best solutions on the market. 
• You will develop marketing material and other documentation in your area, and you will support our sales and support team in complex domain issues. In Public procurements, you will support colleagues to evaluate product demands and do related work to hand in our best offer. You participate in customer meetings, in dialogues with partners and at various fairs and other events.
• You will balance both short-term needs and long-term visions, while taking responsibility for pricing and profitability in our product portfolio. Tasks such as productization, functional testing and participation in customer meetings will be a natural part of your everyday life.
• The role includes travel, especially in Sweden and Poland. Travel to our office in Norway or India may occur.

We are looking for someone with

• Knowledge of how municipalities pay reimbursements/compensations to both municipal and private service providers. If you also have knowledge of municipal elderly care fees is a plus.
• Experience of working as an economist, controller or similar in a municipality or have been working in Lifecare or a similar system
• Pedagogic skills so our customer business demands can be explained for our more technical skilled employees working with the product development
• Deep domain knowledge primarily of the Swedish welfare and social care landscape, knowledge about the Nordic and European market is a plus.
• Good knowledge of current legislation and the National Board of Health and Welfare's processes.
• Knowledge of how personal data should be handled, and guidelines linked to GDPR. 
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to express yourself clearly in writing and in meetings; excellent command of English and fluency in spoken and written Swedish

It would be beneficial if you also

• Have a degree in economics or equivalent with broad experience of municipal health and social care.
• Are analytical and at the same time have an eye to see the big picture. 
• Have experience from and knowledge of the municipality's welfare services, work processes and legislation experience from product development such as backlog, prioritization and description of the solution. 
• Have experience in product management, project management or similar.

As a person you are

• A committed team player with a business mindset, who loves to drive things forward and provide high service to our customers. Working as a product owner means being a leader without being a manager.
• Always eager to learn more and enjoy sharing and increasing your knowledge while working with others collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment. You get motivated by achieving results and like to work together with others as well as independently with the ability to work under pressure. 
• Driven, self-motivated and can make strategic decisions. 
• A good communicator with a positive attitude and a sense of teamwork.  
   

AI knowledge requirement

AI literacy is expected for this role. You will be comfortable using approved AI tools to improve quality and productivity in everyday work (e.g., drafting, summarising, analysing, and automating routine tasks). You can write clear prompts/instructions, critically evaluate and validate AI outputs, and apply sound judgement when results are incomplete, biased, or incorrect. You understand and follow company policies and applicable legal/regulatory requirements for confidentiality, privacy, security, and responsible AI use (including not sharing sensitive data in unapproved tools).

What’s in it for you?

With us you will be part of the important and meaningful work of developing healthcare for all of us. You have an important mission to make a difference that really matters. In addition, as a company we offer you professional growth, open and friendly culture, and an outstanding work-life balance! We believe that our organizational culture is an important part of enabling you to be successful. We provide a flexible hybrid work model as part of our culture and way of working.

Finally, we also believe in curiosity and learning as a lifestyle. We want to encourage you to keep up that curiosity and deepen your knowledge on topics you’re interested in. For example, we host an annual ‘Keep Learning Week’, a week where everyone at Tieto has the possibility to join different training courses in a truly global setting.

Could you be our new colleague?  

We look forward to hearing from you! We will fill the position as soon as we find the right person, so we encourage you to apply today. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact the hiring manager Åsa Olsson [asa.l.olsson@tieto.com] 

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