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The Product Owner is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for overall technology advancements, store processes and development efforts for Meijer Express (Convenience Store & Fuel). This Product Owner will work very close with cross functional teams to define, develop, and launch transformative technology features/capabilities as well as in-store solutions. This Product Owner is a key role within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) that Meijer has adopted across multiple areas of the business. This role offers the unique opportunity to influence platforms & experiences that impact our Customers and Team Member, drive incremental sales and deliver Best in Class solutions for Meijer. Individuals in this role must embody SAFe Agile while demonstrating the ability to understand Customer and Team Member needs and have the aptitude for both technical and business requirements.
What You’ll be Doing:
- Responsible for the end-state product/property experiences, which could include (but not limited to) all Merchandising Systems, POS technology, Handheld/Mobile technology, App development, Customer Experience, Fuel backend platform, Fuel Dispenser Hardware & Software. Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for contributions towards the creation and development of project roadmaps, project strategy and planning process.
- Interprets customer data and Team Member feedback to identify opportunities to influence the digital experience by reducing friction in our solutions while increasing simplicity and efficiencies for our Customers and Team Members.
- Sees projects from start to finish, including detailed breakdown of features at the beginning, through measuring success post rollout.
- Conveys the vision and goals to the team for each new feature prioritized.
- Creates, owns and is measured against their agile team’s objectives for each 10 week program increment.
- Maintains and prioritizes their team’s backlog during the sprint planning process.
- Attends all regularly scheduled meetings as part of the SAFe framework, including sprint planning, sprint demos, system demos, retrospectives, and program increment planning events.
- Communicates status and progress externally.
- Plans and executes program/feature transitions with high customer impact as needed.
- Additional projects outside of the agile project teams as assigned.
This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
- 3-5 years’ experience in Retail Leading teams, SAFe Agile work, and/or IT field.
- Experience working with technical teams required, preferably within an Agile (SAFe) framework.
- Experience in working within teams and cross-functional partner relationships.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint experience.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver simple customer experience solutions.
- Strong written, editing, proofreading and oral communication skills.
- Strong presentation skills, comfort leading cross functional projects.
- Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills with ability to prioritize multiple/competing projects and assignments.
- Attention to detail with an ability to meet tight timelines.
- Strong problem solving ability and dealing with ambiguity.
- Strong work ethic complemented by a positive, can-do attitude.
- Ability to communicate and interact with various divisions and levels of the organization.
- Exceptional ability to extract strategic insights from data and adjust and/or plan accordingly.
- May require travel to markets.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 3-5 years' experience in retail leading teams, SAFe Agile work, and/or IT field
- Experience working with technical teams
- Experience within an Agile (SAFe) framework
- Advanced Excel experience
- Advanced PowerPoint experience
- Demonstrated ability to deliver simple customer experience solutions
- Strong written, editing, proofreading and oral communication skills
- Strong presentation skills and comfort leading cross-functional projects
- Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills
- Attention to detail with ability to meet tight timelines
- Strong problem solving ability and comfort dealing with ambiguity
- Ability to communicate and interact with various divisions and levels of the organization
- Ability to extract strategic insights from data and adjust plans accordingly
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The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Meijer and has not been reviewed or approved by Meijer.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
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What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
