Freelance Product Management Consultant – Consent & Identity (ZZP)

Freelance Product Management Consultant – Consent & Identity (ZZP) via Randstad. Maternity leave replacement.

Start: ASAP until 09-07-2027.

Role & Team: Global Senior Product Owner within Personal Health (Omnichannel Digital Experience), driving enterprise-wide application initiatives.

Core Mission: Leading a critical software transformation to replace legacy consent and identity platforms before their 2027 end-of-life cutoff.

Immediate Priority: Delivering the mid-October Consent Management go-live, followed by leading the transition to a new IAM partner.

Key Responsibilities: Securing cross-team capacity beyond standard backlog management, balancing strategic alignment with hands-on technical detail, and driving cross-functional change.

Location: in Amsterdam with a hybrid schedule (2–3 days on-site for 32 hours). We are seeking an experienced independent Product Management Consultant to support the further development and implementation of our Consent and Identity Management capabilities. The assignment combines strong Product Ownership capabilities with subject matter expertise in Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM), consent management. The consultant will translate business, marketing, privacy and technical needs into a clear product backlog and actionable features, helping delivery teams create solutions that balance customer experience, regulatory requirements and technical feasibility.

The assignment is focused on achieving agreed product and project outcomes.

Key Deliverables & Responsibilities: Product Backlog Ownership & Prioritization: Build, structure, refine and prioritize the product backlog for Consent and Identity Management, based on agreed business objectives, customer needs, privacy requirements, dependencies and implementation considerations. Product Requirements & User Stories: Translate business, marketing, legal/privacy and user requirements into epics, features, user stories, functional requirements and clear acceptance criteria.

Product Roadmap: Develop and maintain the functional roadmap for consent capture, preference management and CIAM capabilities, providing recommendations on priorities, sequencing and dependencies.

Agile Product Delivery: Fulfil the Product Owner role within the agreed delivery framework, including backlog refinement, sprint preparation, clarification of requirements and acceptance of delivered functionality against agreed criteria.

Stakeholder Alignment: Facilitate alignment between Marketing, Privacy/Legal, Analytics, IT/Engineering and external technology partners to establish clear requirements, priorities and product decisions.

Solution & Vendor Alignment: Review proposed solutions from IT and external technology partners against agreed functional requirements, architecture principles, privacy requirements and acceptance criteria, and identify gaps requiring resolution.

Testing & Product Acceptance: Define functional test and acceptance scenarios and coordinate UAT, privacy/compliance validation and integration verification from a product perspective.

Risk & Dependency Management: Identify product, technical, regulatory and vendor dependencies or risks and recommend appropriate mitigation and prioritization measures.

Rollout & Knowledge Transfer: Prepare functional documentation, product decisions, implementation guidance and handover materials to enable successful rollout and transfer of knowledge to internal stakeholders.

Required Expertise: Demonstrated experience acting as a Product Owner or Product Management professional for complex digital products or platforms. Strong experience with product backlog management, prioritization, roadmap development and Agile product delivery. Proven ability to translate customer, business and regulatory needs into epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria. Experience working with multidisciplinary delivery teams and external technology partners.

Relevant expertise in Consent Management, Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM), preference management and GDPR/privacy requirements. Ability to balance customer experience, business value, privacy/compliance requirements and technical feasibility when recommending product priorities. Strong stakeholder facilitation skills, with the ability to create alignment across business, privacy/legal and technology stakeholders. Relevant Product Owner/Product Management certification such as PSPO, CSPO or equivalent practical experience is an advantage.

Assignment Outputs: A structured and prioritized Consent & Identity product backlog. Clearly defined epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria. An updated functional product roadmap with agreed priorities and dependencies. Documented product decisions and recommendations. Defined product acceptance and UAT criteria for key releases. Identified risks, dependencies and proposed mitigations. Documentation and knowledge transfer supporting transition to the internal organization.