Product Owner - Supply Chain - Traceability

Product Owner - Supply Chain - Traceability

Your Manager: Product Manager

Team: Tech

Location: Chiswick, London. We operate a hybrid working approach, which allows you to manage your time between home and office.

Your new team

Embark on an exciting journey with our Global Tech team, operating in agile mode within a dynamic product organization. Join a collaborative environment where innovation thrives, and your contributions will directly shape the trajectory of our cutting-edge products. As a key player in our agile setup, you'll have the opportunity to drive efficiency, foster creativity, and play a pivotal role in our product development process.

We are seeking a dynamic Traceability Product Owner to manage the global traceability of material flows for both raw material/inbound and Finished goods/outbound with experience in relevant technology (SAP ERP, Modern Integration principles). The product owner will contribute to improving efficiency, enhancing trust, and improving sustainability by extending supply chain transparency through an optimal end-to-end traceability solution. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing a product backlog, collaborating with cross-functional teams (portfolio management, manufacturing and supply chain) and ensure alignment with business goals.

Your unique contribution

The responsibilities involve leading and managing an Agile Squad, overseeing the development of the product roadmap, and managing backlog prioritization to ensure the delivery of Business Value.

You will have a few main areas of responsibility:

• Demand Management: Gather new demands to be integrated into the backlog and translate them into Features.
• Backlog Management: Prioritize Product backlog and manage risks and interdependencies with other squads. Steer and drive squad delivery, facilitate day-to-day interactions within the squad.
• Product Lifecycle management: Contribute to product vision definition. Lead the Product Build by defining and analyzing the Features/user stories and managing the agile squad delivery.
• Product Catalog Management: Ensure latest version and consistency between the product & service catalog and the overall product portfolio and communicate on changes & updates.
• Incident Management: Lead L2/L3 incidents investigation, diagnosis and resolution.
• Resource Management: Estimate Resource forecasts, adjust roadmap and prioritization based on resource availability and report on actual resource utilization.
• ITFM: Provide Product roadmap and backlog, squad’s resource needs forecast. Oversee overall funding of my scope, perform variance analysis and provide justification. Track Product’s ROI and costs.

Who you’ll be working with

Internally, you’ll work with Product Manager, Domain Proximity Lead, Service Management, Key Users, Resources Lead, Product Teams, Squad Members and Business Process Owners to be involved in monthly Sprint plannings and quarterly product roadmap reviews. Daily stand ups with the squad. Agility is expected to adapt the ceremonies frequency to the pace of the business velocity.

Externally, regular business review meetings to be conducted with our partners (editors, integrators, etc.). Involvement is expected in all aspects of the vendor relationship – selection, contract negotiation, budget and deliverables monitoring, resource management, etc.

Your blend of talent

This position could be right for you if you:

• Have strong experience in Product Management, preferably at a global scale.
• Have strong experience in Material traceability with a good understanding of the impact it has on quality, manufacturing and planning, legal and compliance, brand management, and sustainability functions.
• Are able to manage in complex and VUCA environments.
• Are an expert in relevant Product, with a deep understanding of business challenges in the domain.
• Have Product Owner certification.
• Have a strong understanding of agile mindset & practices.
• Have negotiation/mediation skills.
• Have strong communication skills, with the ability to talk with both business & technical stakeholders.

Our mix of benefits

For your health, we offer private medical insurance, income protection and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.

Our lifestyle benefits include 28 days’ annual holiday, your employee pension, share incentive plan, season ticket loans, payroll giving and more!

You can access lots of gifts & discounts, including an allowance each year to spend on our brands in our staff shop and employee discounts from a range of high street retailers.

We have regular events in our very own office bar, employee-run networks, a culture of flexibility and trust and a variety of tools and resources to help you focus on your wellbeing and mental fitness.

We’re committed to diversity and inclusion

People are at the heart of everything we do at Pernod Ricard and are the foundation of our collective spirit as ‘Créateurs de Convivialité’.

We promote diversity and inclusion throughout our business and supply chain. In our teams, we proactively foster a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture – an environment where we can truly be ourselves.

We will assess your application for this role based on your skills, experiences and achievements, not your gender, age, ethnic or educational background or any other such factors. Please feel free to leave these off your CV and application form if you so wish.