Steve Werme 🇬🇧

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• Email. steve@werme.io
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Product Manager at IVC Evidensia

Oct 2021 – Present
(Contractor)

As Product Manager at IVC Evidensia (pet care), Steve is involved in building up the product organization, for a newly started initiative focused on pet owners in the UK, from the ground up together with the head of product and other product leaders according to lean-agile principles and ways of working. He is responsible for the area “Onboarding”, which extends from acquisition, on to onboarding and finally activation.

Steve is responsible for, based on customer needs and business requirements, assessing the benefits for the customer and business, setting requirements and driving further development and refinement of the products. As Product Manager he works with two distributed agile teams, using both Scrum and Kanban.

One team consisting of development, design and testing is based in the UK and manages the majority of websites built on the Kentico CMS platform. The other team that also consists of development, design and testing is a distributed team (Sweden, UK, Bulgaria and Serbia) building and maintaining native app built using React Native on top of a (mostly) .NET stack.

He is also the initiator of a number of business development activities, such as the introduction of company-wide OKRs.

IVC Evidensia colleagues about Steve

My sincerest recommendations for Steve, for the position of product manager. In my time working with Steve, I have been consistently impressed by his expertise in lean software development, as well as his ability to energize and motivate the teams he is a part of.

Steve has a wealth of experience in implementing lean principles to streamline software development processes, resulting in more efficient and effective use of resources and faster time to market. He is well-versed in the latest methodologies and tools, and is able to adapt to new technologies and approaches with ease.

In addition to his technical skills, Steve is a natural leader and team player. He has a positive and uplifting attitude that rubs off on those around him, and he is able to inspire others to work together towards a common goal. He is also highly organized and detail-oriented, with a knack for managing complex projects and meeting deadlines.

I have no doubt that Steve would be an asset to any organization in a product management role.

Ammar, Tech Lead IVC Evidensia

🔗 IVCEvidensia.com

Product Manager at Frisq

May 2021 – Oct 2021
(Contractor)

As Product Manager at FRISQ (B2B in digital care), Steve covered for a PM who went on parental leave. Steve was responsible for, based on customer needs and business requirements, assessing the benefits for the customer and business, setting requirements and driving further development and management of functionality close to the user experience itself. As Product Owner he worked together with a distributed agile team, according to Scrum and Kanban. He also helped coach other PMs in the organization.

🔗 Frisq.se

Digital Strategist at Digitalist

Jan 2021 – Jun 2021
(Contractor)

As a Digital Strategist at Digitalist, Steve supported clients such as Kommunal, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, AFRY and TRR with everything from basic tracking of web applications (using Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Matomo, etc.) to identifying potential growth areas and creating organization-wide understanding of insight-driven product work. He usually acts as an analyst or product manager and works together with both local and distributed teams who in turn work based on lean-agile principles and agile frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.

🔗 Digitalist.se

Digital Strategist at TRR

Jan 2021 – Jun 2021
(Contractor)

As a Digital Strategist at TRR, Steve helped lay the foundation for an insight-driven way of working with a starting point in Matomo, where he focused on the technical implementation together with the development teams, but also on what the product organization should focus on in its journey towards a more user-friendly and value-creating approach. To help him, he leans on lean-agile principles and the support of clear value delivery frameworks such as OKR. At TRR, he was also part of a cross functional strategic team tasked with supporting the organisation focused on enabling insight-driven product development.

🔗 Trr.se

Product Manager at Voyado

Dec 2017 – Dec 2020
(Employee)

Som Product Manager hos Voyado (SaaS inom kundlojalitet) så var Steve med och byggde upp produktorganisationen, med tillhörande processer, från grunden tillsammans med CPO enligt lean-agila principer. Han ansvarade för området “Retail”, som i sin tur täckte det mesta kopplat till själva köpförståelsen. Steve ansvarade för att, baserat på kundbehov och krav från affär, bedöma nyttan för kund och affär, sätta krav och driva vidareutveckling och förvaltning av produkterna. Han agerade under sin tid som produktägare och team lead mot flertalet lokala och distribuerade agila team, som jobbade enligt Scrum och Kanban. Han var även initiativtagare för ett antal verksamhetsutvecklande aktiviteter så som införandet av OKR med omnejd.

🔗 Voyado.com

Product Manager at Telenor

Jan 2016 – Dec 2017
(Employee)

As Product Manager at Telenor Sweden, Steve was responsible for the development of the company’s digital B2B self-service products. Steve was responsible for, based on customer needs and business requirements, assessing the benefit to business and operations, setting requirements and driving development of the products within a larger ongoing digital transformation process. He acted as Product Owner for two distributed agile development teams that worked according to Scrum and Kanban. In addition to managing existing channels, he was responsible for the discovery and development of the future digital self-service channel. Steve also participated and represented B2B in Telenor’s overall transformation team, as digital and technical lead.

🔗 Telenor.se

Project Manager at Nansen

Sep 2013 – Jan 2016
(Employee)

As Project Manager and Digital Strategist at Making Waves (Nansen), Steve was responsible for the entire project life cycle including budgeting, resource planning, activity planning, forecasting and stakeholder communication. The role combined account management and sales with agile project and product management for clients such as Getinge Group, Marginalen Bank, Coop and Electrolux. In addition to the role of project manager, Steve helped several customers understand the digital landscape and their needs going forward through in-depth analysis of the needs of their customers and advised on assessing the business value of various initiatives. He was also part of the Swedish management team.

🔗 Nansen.com