Sven van Bossum

Head of Product

The Randstad, Netherlands

About

SKILLS A curious nature, that’s what I have and more often than not I want to know everything there is about a certain challenge or problem. I’m capable of analysing and solving complex problems, encourage others to develop their skills and facilitating stakeholders at all levels of the organization and outside the organization. I see myself as an individual who is a strong team player, who eagerly seeks opportunities and shows passion for the job, who enjoys a challenging environment and working by objectives. I’m also eager to continuously improve and develop and I like to constantly raise the bar. This is something that I’ve developed mostly during my time as a professional, but also during my education and in my social life. I like to help people improve themselves. Working on multidisciplinary projects and managing them to a succesful end together with the team and stakeholders is something I love doing. AMBITIONS My ambition is to keep improving myself through work and study. I want to be someone who people like to work with. I want to be an asset in a growing organization.

Experience

  • Tournament Software (Full-time · 10 mos)
    • Head of Product
      Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

      Key Responsibilities: - Strategy & Vision: Define and communicate a long-term product vision that aligns with company business goals and market shifts. - Roadmap Management: Own and prioritize the product roadmap, balancing short-term feature requests with long-term strategic growth and technical debt. - Team Leadership: Hire, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of product owners and designers - Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success to ensure successful product strategies, efficient collaboration and go-to-market executions. - Customer Insights: Conduct market research and user interviews to deeply understand customer pain points and validate new product ideas.

    • Productmanager
      Oct 2025 - Mar 2026 · 6 mos

  • Maandag® (Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
    • Senior Productmanager
      Jan 2025 - Oct 2025 · 10 mos

      Verantwoordelijk voor o.a.: - Ontwikkelen van een duidelijke strategie op de IT producten binnen mijn portefeuille; - Ontwikkelen van een duidelijke productvisie en roadmap voor zowel de korte als lange termijn, gericht op klant- en businesswaarde; - Strategische planning opstellen van een strategische agile roadmap voor productontwikkeling op zowel kort als lange termijn; - Marktonderzoek: inzicht verkrijgen in markttrends, concurrentieanalyse, en klantbehoeften om de productstrategie te sturen. - Aansturen van product team

    • Product Owner
      Jun 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Responsible for multipe projects/products with the following responsibilities: - Strategic and tactical development of IT within Maandag - The further development of different IT subjects withing Maandag - The further development and management of the product Backlog - Prioritizing features that create value for Maandag and its stakeholders internally and externally - Managing, support and work with different teams. Existing of business analysts, developers and other experts - Sparring partner and challenger of management - Point of contact for external parties

  • Product Manager at Sogeti
    Feb 2021 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Projects: - Sogeti internal project - setting up a SOC as a new service. Both for Sogeti internal use as well as a product to implement at clients - Council of Amsterdam - Implementing the new office365 workspace - OCLC - Product manager - Setting up the agile way of working and reorganizing the way the product team is working

  • Product Owner at Maandag®
    Sep 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Responsible for multiple IT projects in an Agile environment. - Customer portal (both web and app) - Client portal And helping the organization further in their agile adulthood

  • Head of Projects at iChoosr
    Oct 2018 - Aug 2019 · 11 mos

    iChoosr currently organises Group Purchase schemes for Energy, Solar Panels and Asbestos remediation. We believe that consumers stand stronger together. Through the power of our group buying programs, we engage consumers and enable them to make well informed purchase decisions about complex products and services in an easy way. - Project manager for different projects at the same time with different stakeholders +Group buying projects with different councils at the same time +Implementing and testing a project management tool +IT projects (together with development the building of our own platform) - Project manager for different process changes +Process improvement in a new starting business line +Changes in IT vs Business processes (agile working) - Project manager for different process analysis - Operating in different work fields and working together with different (government) councils, suppliers and team members at the same time. - Managing budgets (600K), project deadlines, project goals and project groups - Leading innovative sessions to improve our service - Leading different sessions in change management and process changes