Product Manager Microsoft 365 Plattform & Digitale Zusammenarbeit (a)

About

You will directly influence the digital and strategic orientation of the Lucerne administration and operate in a highly complex, transversal role at the service and department management level, with clear end-to-end responsibility for a business-critical platform, whose value creation, economic steering, and sustainable further development you will significantly be responsible for.

Your Tasks

• As the strategically responsible person, you will continuously develop the product vision of the Microsoft 365 platform and ensure that innovation capability, digital sovereignty, and regulatory compliance are guaranteed at the highest level, including ownership for business value, TCO, and sustainable value creation.
• With a holistic view, you will manage the entire product lifecycle and orchestrate investments, resources, and complex dependencies between services, applications, and regulatory requirements, including prioritization of capital allocation and ensuring economic target achievement at the portfolio level.
• In a shaping key role, you will conceptualize an integrated, service-oriented operating model and build governance structures, role architectures, and binding guidelines that enable a high-performing and resilient platform organization, including defining clear decision-making rights, control logics, and escalation mechanisms with company-wide validity.
• As a transformation driver, you will further develop historically grown structures into an end-to-end responsible service organization with measurable impact on efficiency, scalability, and performance. At the same time, you will sustainably anchor a lean-agile leadership, control, and delivery culture through the targeted development of managers, product owners, and teams.
• You will ensure strategic alignment with internal and external stakeholders, prepare data-, scenario-, and risk-based decision foundations up to the executive level, and consistently drive decisions to implementation. At the same time, you will position the digital administration of Lucerne as a thought leader towards cantonal, national, and strategic partners as well as technology providers.

Your Profile

• With a university degree in computer science, business administration, or a comparable field, you have a solid foundation for connecting technological, organizational, and strategic issues.
• Through many years of relevant experience in the enterprise IT environment, in a management position, you have a demonstrable track record in product management, platform control, and the transformation of complex organizations, including responsibility for strategic initiatives or platforms with measurable impact on efficiency and value creation.
• Based on your deep know-how in Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Security & Compliance, you are confident in demanding and regulated system landscapes and have sound knowledge of cloud architectures, integrations, APIs, and system landscapes, particularly at the architecture and control level.
• With methodological strength, you use strategic planning, roadmap and portfolio management, as well as data-based control models with KPIs, SLA, and SLO, for active control of business value, priorities, and target achievement at the platform and portfolio level.
• As a convincing personality who actively lives ownership, you combine entrepreneurial thinking with strong communication and negotiation skills and succeed in transforming diverse interests into viable, future-oriented solutions, with clear decisiveness, assertiveness, and overall responsibility for impact and results.

What You Can Look Forward To

Our fields of activity are as diverse as we are.

Environment, infrastructure, finance, security, health, education, and much more – together we shape the canton of Lucerne.

With us, you will go further.

We offer attractive and exciting career and development opportunities – both in leadership and for subject matter experts.

We work flexibly and smartly.

Mobile-flexible working is highly valued here. More than half of our employees work part-time and achieve their professional goals in harmony with their private commitments.

With us, you benefit.

Attractive further training offers, employee discount platforms, mobile and internet offers, Next Bike, fleet discounts, and other benefits.

All our benefits at a glance

Your Employer

Working for the Canton of Lucerne means helping to shape the future – the future of the canton, its residents, and not least your own. More than 7,000 employees in 200 different professions contribute daily to the excellent quality of life in our canton.

The IT Services Department (DIIN) provides comprehensive IT services for the departments, courts, and schools of the Canton of Lucerne. In addition to consulting on IT issues in the areas of architecture, security, infrastructure, projects, and applications, and the provision of IT services, it operates the cantonal IT infrastructure in two modern data centers and is responsible for the setup and operation of the complex cantonal communication network.

The "a" in the job title stands for "all". The Canton of Lucerne stands for diversity and variety.

Your Workplace

Ruopigenplatz 1, Luzern

Your Contact

Financial Department

IT Services Department

Marcus Flückiger

Head of Application Management

+41 41 228 84 32

https://informatik.lu.ch/