Product Owner Merchandising Solutions (m/f/d) - Digital Brand Solutions - temp until October 2025

PURPOSE

As a Product Owner Merchandising Solutions at Digital Brand Solutions, you are responsible for the quality and strategic impact of a small to medium digital product in the Merchandising area. Together with your agile team, you work on continuously improving and evolving the digital product in order to maximize the value for Category Managers, Merchandisers and Assortment planners in markets.

Partnering with IT and internal stakeholders to define a robust product backlog, managing capability expansion increments and leading the team towards the definition of new functionalities & best practices are a few examples of the activities that will be expected from this role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Product Strategy & Delivery

1. Be accountable for the success of your digital merchandising product, considering the value for the user community and the company (ROI).
2. Specify the product vision and roadmap as well as user stories considering the value for the Merchandising and Brand user community in the local markets and regions and the company.
3. Be accountable for product delivery in line with the roadmap and committed delivery dates.
4. Identify and solve dependencies with other product owners to ensure efficient delivery. Coordinate interfaces between different product teams.

Stakeholder Management

1. Represent the business for the digital product, fostering strong relationships with key Merchandising stakeholders to ensure that their views and requirements are captured in the product backlog.

Backlog Management

1. Prioritize the items in your product backlog. Specify the definition-of-done in cooperation with the product team(s).
2. Own the refinement of your product backlog to ensure that the product team(s) is/are delivering the right enhancements to drive consumer and business value.
3. Provide acceptance for delivered backlog items by the team, in line with the definition-of-done.

Monitoring

1. Be accountable for monitoring, optimization and enhancement of the configuration, features and functionalities related to the product.
2. Ensure that objective data sources and feedback loops are used for the optimization of the digital product.

Change & Process Management

1. Promote the product across the user community and beyond.
2. Identify & manage the need for new or improved processes to ensure an efficient product.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

1. Advanced domain knowledge in Merchandising, Assortment Planning or Product Marketing.
2. Analytical mindset, innovative thinker and collaborator.
3. Good communication skills and comfortable presenting to stakeholders at various organizational levels both in person and remotely.
4. Solution oriented approach and entrepreneurial mindset.
5. Basic leadership skills are a plus.
6. Advanced knowledge of Agile working methods e.g. Scrum/Kanban.
7. Comfortable working with enterprise-level platforms and technologies.
8. Basic understanding of IT products and capabilities.
9. Fluent in English both verbally and written.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. University degree with focus on Business Administration, Communication or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
2. Minimum 5 years of experience working in a Brand and/or Digital environment.
3. 2+ years working as a Product Owner or digital product management related role, preferably in an agile working setup.
4. Experience in working with stakeholders and experts at various organizational levels.
5. Experience in creating strong internal business cases to support investment and internal resource requests.

AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.

• COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need.
• OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
• INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
• TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
• INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company’s standards.
• RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.

JOB TITLE:

Product Owner Merchandising Solutions (m/f/d) - Digital Brand Solutions - temp until October 2025

BRAND:

LOCATION:

Herzogenaurach

TEAM:

General Management & Business Development

STATE:

BY

COUNTRY/REGION:

DE

CONTRACT TYPE:

Temp

NUMBER:

517987

DATE:

Oct 28, 2024