Director, Product Development

Director, Product Development

Are you thriving in the sphere between strategizing, planning, and providing leadership to your department in taking a product idea from concept to delivery and beyond - hence growing the business and making stakeholders happy? Then you might be our new Director of Product Development!

Bunker Holding Group - fuelling the future
At Bunker Holding Group, we specialise in buying, selling and supplying marine fuel and lubricating oil to ships. With an ever-changing market, and our desire to move towards greener fuelling solutions, trading is becoming increasingly more complex. The Director of Product Development will be responsible for all development of IT solutions within Bunker Holding and for the overall IT management of a department consisting of 4 Development Managers and corresponding teams of 70 developers, architects, business analysts, scrum masters etc.

A strategic and strong leader with excellent communication- and stakeholder management skills
Bringing experience from a similar role, you have a strong business acumen and excellent communication skills, enabling you to proactively develop the IT Product Development organization, facilitate collaboration across your department and keeping us heading in the right direction. You will have a vital role in the management of IT, and as such you will take on a broad responsibility within the IT management team. The new Director of Product development will be responsible for ensuring proper design, development and communication of models, processes, and tools within your area, aligning to the overall strategy for IT in Bunker Holding. You have a seat on the portfolio board, at which you are championing the Product Development area. Challenging priorities, ensuring clear directions, and providing transparency into the development capacity and capabilities.

Furthermore, you will:

• Explore and build strong relationships with suppliers and provide strong vendor management.
• Ensure our organization follows standards and principles and develops these together with peers in IT management.
• Communicate closely with the rest of the management team, ensuring that the status, risk and challenges of our overall development activities are known in IT and among business stakeholders.
• Being an ambassador of IT, you build strong relationships and continuously have close dialogues with the business stakeholders.
• You will be responsible for a large part of the IT budget, and as such you can structure, analyze, optimize, and drive efficient financial management.

Focus on the leadership and Product Development - we'll take care of the rest
In BHG IT we are constantly moving, growing and evolving, and we truly believe that people are our most important asset in our continuous journey. We are an agile and product-centric organisation, and our leadership responsibility is divided into five areas: Architecture & Intelligence, Portfolio, Product Delivery, Technology and Cyber Security. We strongly believe this will drive our business and ensuring IT and Business collaboration, help us embrace opportunities and enable the areas to focus on what they do best, with separation of duties and owning the area. This enables you, as Director of Product Development, to fully dedicate your time to leadership and management of the area, while other colleagues focus on their respective area, but with a close collaboration with a unified management team, all 5 directors, the CIO and all managers with direct reports are forming a united management team.

A visible people leader with strong stakeholder management skills and financial acumen
Besides being a positive people leader, you have sound experience with executing strategies, preferably through teams and functions across a large organisation. It is a huge advantage if you have done so in organisations undergoing large transitions. You should also have broad knowledge of IT development and operations. You are used to being a visible leader for stakeholders both internally as well as externally and thrive in engaging in various governance forums, finding solutions, and driving things forward.

In terms of your soft skills, you are ideally:

• Structured and analytical in your approach to change and development
• A strong stakeholder manager with high emotional intelligence and communication skills that induce trust and buy-in
• Team oriented in nature, and you enjoy collaborating across departments and borders and solving challenges together

Apply now and be a part of our journey
If the above sounds like something, you would thrive in - then come join us.

Remember that above description of the position is the ideal requirements for a candidate, however we strongly believe in inclusion and diversity, for which reason we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all requirements.

In case you have questions about the position, please contact CIO - Morten Gade Christensen at

Please note that a valid Danish working permit is required for the position and applications are handled on an ongoing basis.

We are already looking forward to hearing from you.