D&A Product Owner Cycles & Procurement

About the Role:

As D&A Product Owner Cycles & Procurement, you will play a key role in delivering both the IT & Data mission to deeply understand the end users needs and owns the vision and roadmap of the product mandated by the organization and the stakeholders to make this vision a reality by translating it into a product that bears maximum value to Danone and its suppliers being accountable of their satisfaction end to end with the Product.

Location | Experience | How to Apply:

Location: Hyderabad

Experience: 10-12 Years

How to Apply: Interested candidates can also apply directly via the Infosys Careers Page ( https://career.infosys.com/jobdescjobReferenceCode=INFSYS-EXTERNAL-253941&rc=0)

Global stakeholder exposure

Opportunity to be part of a large-scale transformation journey

Good to have experience in consumer goods, manufacturing, retail, or related industry domains

Technical Skills Required

- Master's in CS / Engineering / Statistics / IT / Information Systems

- 10+ years of total experience; 5-7 yrs Data Product Management, agile, full product lifecycles(discovery delivery)

- You are fluent in English most of the C&P community is based out of Amsterdam.

- You are driven by fact-based impact and have a proven Data Product Management track record (5/7 years), that includes working in agile setup, defining product vision,collaborating with designers and engineering teams, and knowledge about product lifecyle.

- You can run SQL queries on your own: youre not fearing to explore data to identify the next feature to build / support business inquiries.

- You have a strong understanding of data architecture patterns, data engineering best practices, and data science techniques.

- You have a strong business maturity: you understand the organisational challenges inherent to a corporation the size of Danone.

- You have excellent leadership and communication skills, that in turn help you to negotiate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, which is necessary to build trust and relationship with C&P / Sustainabilitys stakeholders.

- You are a problem-solver and have experience in smoothly arbitraging difficult or ambiguous situations, to rally people around company's objectives.

- You are comfortable working under changing/conflicting priorities.

- Knowledge in Cycles& Procurement applied to FMCG is a must have: source to pay, ingredients/pack/milk management, supplier management, risk management.

- Knowledge in Sustainability applied to FMCG is a strong plus, tied to end to end product life – from cradle to grave operations: farming, suppliers, manufacturing, transports, use of sold products, end of life, etc.

- Knowledge of Azure ecosystem of services is a strong plus.

- Knowledge of databricks is a strong plus

- Knowledge of Data Catalog, Data Quality frameworks is a strong plus

Key Responsibilities

- Product Vision and strategy: Collaborates with stakeholders to define and communicate the product vision and strategy (see Product Vision, Product Strategy Canva and OKRs)

- Backlog management: Maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog and define the extension guardrails, where applicable (see Product Management Guiding Principles )

- Requirement Gathering and Refinement: Works closely with stakeholders to gather and refine requirements (see Backlog Refinement )

- Release Planning and Road-mapping: Collaborates with the squad members and stakeholders to plan and prioritize releases (see Product Roadmap ) Global roadmap management and its communication to stakeholders.

- Plan & Review: Plan the work to be done with the squad members and demonstrate the completed work to stakeholders

- Dependency management: Identify and manage dependencies that may impact the success of the Product and Squads

- Stakeholders engagement: Serves as the primary liaison between the squad members and the stakeholders

- Acceptance criteria definition: Provide clear guidelines for when a requirement is considered complete and ready for release

- Continuous Improvement: Actively seeks feedback from stakeholders, team members, and end-users to identify areas for improvement by fostering the adherence to the frameworks best practices.

- Data strategy and vision:

From high-level functional needs, you derive tactical and strategical roadmaps that not only accommodate the business strategy, but that are also aligned with IT&Data's; based on proven business cases and measurable success criteria, as well as emphasizing scalability and standardization.
You translate these large-scale data initiatives into actionable tasks / projects.
You champion data literacy across the C&P / Sustainability organization.

- Data product development:

You lead and embark your squad by defining a vision, that you turn into the right priorities and methodologies. You adjust these priorities when needed.
You define and follow KPIs to drive the team towards goals and impacts.
You communicate clearly and regularly on the progress, risk, and impact of the roadmap, which in turn means you anticipate challenges and dependencies.
You apply your product management background, from discovery (market assessment, design) to delivery (test, QA).

- Data governance and infrastructure:

You manage data governance processes to ensure data reliability, consistency, and quality, in accordance with corporate existing initiatives and frameworks.
You build and maintain data infrastructure for optimal performance, in accordance with the platform team's recommendations and best practices.
Implementation of the data governance processes to ensure data reliability, consistency, and quality, in accordance with corporate existing initiatives and frameworks.

Enabling the build and maintenance of data infrastructure for optimal performance, in accordance with the platform team's recommendations and best practices

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