Product Owner, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Competent, enthusiastic and well-being personnel is one of OP Financial Group's strategic priorities.  Therefore, it is important for us to ensure that OP Financial Group has the skills and capabilities that enable our success and evolution in renewing itself in a rapidly changing world.

We are looking for an experienced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) leader who wants to make an impact in a new role to OP Financial Group. With your strong expertise, you will develop and promote our DEI practices and culture, influence and drive the importance of the topic and help grow our understanding and capabilities in the area. We want to be a modern, successful financial services provider that promotes the wellbeing of our customers and employees – now and in the future.

About the role

In this new role, you'll have the opportunity to shape the practices of OP Financial Group, Finland's largest financial group. Your main focus will be driving diversity and fostering an inclusive culture within our agile operating model, working closely with business leaders and other stakeholders. You'll collaborate with expert teams, extending your influence to the Senior Leadership and HR Executive teams. As the DEI expert, you'll define and implement innovative practices and report to the Leader of OP's Careers Tribe.

A key part of role will involve reviewing, evaluating, and optimizing OP's practices and people processes, such as resourcing, remuneration, and people development. The objective is to ensure these processes facilitate the positive development of diversity and equity within OP Financial Group. Furthermore, you will leverage data and insights to identify and highlight the substantial opportunities that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offer for the advancement of all our operations.

As a Product Owner, collaborating with our leadership and business units, you identify our DEI targets. You will closely cooperate with OP's ESG committee, representing the DEI perspective. Your role involves shaping the strategic objectives within your area of responsibility and defining the measurement of goals and activities. Additionally, you will lead efforts to update processes and transform practices that may hinder diversity initiatives.

You promote an inclusive culture and ways of working at OP Financial Group. You support communities in cultural change. You consult, guide, and bring together OP's DEI ambassador networks. Your tasks also include developing and directing internal and external DEI communication as well as strengthening diversity as a key value of OP as an employer.

A few words about us

You will join our Ura (‘Career’) Tribe, which holds a broader responsibility for shaping the employee experience for both current and future members of our team. Your colleagues will be a diverse group of professionals specializing in recruitment, strategic workforce planning, employer branding, recruitment marketing, and HR.

Within OP's Ura Tribe, we provide a range of services across OP Financial Group, including workforce planning, management, procurement, recruitment, onboarding, internal mobility, and career life cycle management. The Ura Tribe's vision is to lead the way in workforce management, recruitment, and employer branding, enabling OP to match skills and experts with meaningful work effectively. Furthermore, as a member of the Ura Tribe, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development and advancement of our agile, self-steering operational culture at OP Financial Group.

What we will offer you

Our agile operating model relies on the teams' self-direction and responsibility. We want to listen to the voice of our customers and experts. In a rapidly changing world, we value the diversity of perspectives and expertise. Product Owner, DEI promotes our ability to change and our good employee and customer experience. In your work at Finland's largest financial group - and one of the country’s largest employers - you also have the opportunity to set a significant example!

To help counterbalance work where you are expected to take a lot of responsibility, we seek to ensure employee wellbeing and to enable forward-looking work arrangements. We offer a stable working environment where you can contribute to our core values: responsibility, people first and succeeding together.

You will enjoy a wide range of staff benefits, including a personnel fund and special terms for employee banking, insurance and loan services. We offer comprehensive occupational health care, extensive medical treatment expenses insurance and a full-time group accident insurance policy. We invest in wellbeing at work by encouraging a good work-life balance, providing flexibility in your daily life, and offering lunch, sport and cultural benefits and opportunities for affordable holidays in OP timeshares.

Does this sound like you?

You have worked for a substantial amount of time promoting diversity, equity and inclusivity in a working community.  You have a strong, demonstratable track record on improving operating models and work performance. You have ideally worked on the development of ESG (environmental-, social responsibility and good governance) issues. Your background may be from a consulting space or from a centralized organization or even an expert team that influences a company's processes and operating model. You have designed and implemented general practices and ways of working, processes, and their monitoring methods. You have experience in change or project management and have influenced through professional relationship networks achieving measurable results.

Strong oral and written skills in Finnish and English will be needed. A suitable university degree that supports your success in the role. You know how to adapt your communication and interaction style to different situations and stakeholders.

You are persistent and you enjoy promoting and influencing through cooperation networks. You consider yourself a true DEI professional, you challenge and are happy to be challenged in good conversations with colleagues and stakeholders. You enjoy achieving & delivering tangible results as a team.

Did we spark your interest? 

For more information about the role or working at OP, Ura Tribe’s Leader Tommi Korhonen will be happy to discuss with you. Best time to reach Tommi by calling +358 102521995 is on Friday Sept. 15 from 3 to 4 p.m. and on Wednesday Sept. 20 from 9 to 10 a.m.

Please apply for the position through our recruitment system no later than Sunday Oct. 1, 2023. We are especially interested in hearing what motivates you in this position and why you could be our new colleague. Hope to hear from you!

In the financial sector, our business is founded on trust and accountability, which is why the successful candidate will be checked for credit history and corporate connections, must take a drug test and a security clearance vetting made by the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service.

Equality and diversity are highly valued at OP Financial Group. We welcome job applications from people of all kinds, regardless of their gender identity or age, or the culture or minority group with which they identify.

OP Financial Group is the leading financial services group in Finland. Owned by our customers, we are one of the most alluring employers in the Financial sector. OP Financial Group employs over 13,000 professionals and provides banking, asset management, wealth management, insurance and brokerage services for our four million customers. For more information about OP as an employer and for all vacancies, go to www.op-careers.fi. #LI-IR #LI-Hybrid