Solution Owner

Inspired to grow with your experience, learn and share with new colleagues?

Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.

We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.

Digitalization is a cornerstone of our strategy, enabling us to drive our ambitions in growth, productivity, and sustainability. The Digital & Process Performance function serves as the transformation engine driving the upgrade of our digital core. By digitalizing our operations, we aim to enhance efficiency and effectiveness, deliver superior customer experiences, mitigate risks, and ensure business continuity—all while paving the way for next-generation innovations.

The Digital & Process Performance (DPP) function is organized into key teams to drive transformation effectively. Processes & Applications focuses on modernizing core business processes, while Data & Analytics enables data-driven decision-making. IT Operations ensures reliable and secure IT infrastructure, and the Transformation Management Office drives Huhtamaki wide business transformation initiatives with strategic goals.

As a Solution Owner, you’ll play a key role in leading the design, implementation, and operations of shopfloor digitalization platforms for our manufacturing operations globally.

The position can be based from any of the following European locations: Finland, Netherlands, Germany and the UK.

Main Responsibilities

• Empower our factories to innovate & eradicate losses with modern digital, data and analytics capabilities.
• Support our World Class Operations (WCO) by providing reusable standard templates and accelerators for rollout.
• Acting as the primary interface between Safety, Operations and IT.
• Create, maintain, and communicate platform vision and roadmap, based on requirements, and needs from different stakeholders from Operations & WCO.
• Define and prioritize the product backlog, creating user stories and acceptance criteria .
• Updating and reviewing documentation .
• Manage product releases, coordinate user acceptance testing, and ensure smooth deployment .
  
  

Experience & Skills Required

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or closely related field.
• Strong Manufacturing / Shopfloor experience required.
• Experience in leading and implementing IT projects and collaborating with operations teams in a manufacturing environment.
• A good understanding of connected worker platforms and MOM/MES applications in manufacturing industry.
• A solution-oriented mindset with a hands-on working attitude.
• Strong English language skills, both written and spoken.
• Azure DevOps (Backlog and Wiki) - beneficial
  
  

What's in it for you?

• A global role, making significant impact across the whole organization. As a key part of our transformation journey, you'll get senior level exposure and recognition in this role.
• A meaningful job: At Huhtamaki, we believe in protecting food, people and the planet. Our innovative and transformative solutions touch the daily lives of people everywhere.
• Employees at the center: As part of our 2030 Strategy we are committed to building a high-performance workforce and in doing so strive to be the best workplace for our employees – employees safety and wellbeing is our top priority
• Development opportunities: We care for each other – and want our talent to thrive and develop
• Responsible employer: Sustainability is embedded in everything we do. We believe diverse teams fuel innovation. We invest in fostering an environment where everyone is safe both psychologically and physically and where diversity and inclusion are promoted through day-to-day behaviors, which are reinforced by our policies and practices.
  
  

Join us to shape the future together!