Supply Continuity Associate Product Owner
WHO WE ARE
We're one of the world's largest food and beverage companies and a trusted producer of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritious foods, earning us a spot on 97% of American household tables. As the guardians of our beloved brands and the creators of innovative products, we're dedicated To Sustainably Grow by Delighting More Consumers Globally.
Today, The Kraft Heinz Company is building a new legacy by investing in a robust Digital infrastructure to revolutionize the food and beverage industry. We are on a journey to create a digitally-powered, agile-enterprise – all while honoring a 150-year heritage and a portfolio of 200 iconic brands. At the heart of this journey is our ambition to create an environment where powerful AI solutions augment humans and where small mission-based teams relentlessly pursue tangible solutions for our consumers, customers, and the enterprise.
That ambition requires us to create a modern cloud and data ecosystem - a one of its kind that becomes the neural network of our company. We want you to bring your tech-self to us. We use Python, R, Spark, React, Tableau, Snowflake, Azure, and others to solve our business challenges. You can look forward to high-impact, no bureaucracy, entrepreneurial work – done in small teams – and a unique opportunity to create something bold, something awesome, something inventive -- and something globally impactful.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
As the Supply Continuity Associate Product Owner, you will be responsible for understanding current challenges in the supply market for Packaging products and developing digital solutions that allows the functional teams to anticipate supply disruptions and proactively mitigate. Working with stakeholders to outline current ways of working and designing new cadences for continuous review of supply continuity solutions. This role will require tremendous collaboration cross-functionally with procurement, R&D and supply chain stakeholders to understand the current environment challenges, the source of supply continuity risk, and prioritize digital use case solutions to aid in prioritizing resources to minimize supply disruptions for raw materials. This product owner will be responsible for the development of digital solutions and activation within the function. In addition, developing longer-term risk management practices to embed learnings from the digital tools developed into Kraft Heinz everyday continuous improvement around supply and sourcing practices.
- Set ambitious and clear product strategy and vision and communicate it effectively to stakeholders, the team, and the rest of the unit
- End to end team output strategy from inception to production
- Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure digital vision and products align within team strategy and product requirements
- Accountable for product specific KPIs once solution enters production and communicate regular tracking of key performance metrics to stakeholders against product strategy and vision
- Utilize market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements for their team. Maintain a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team
- Works closely with CPO to establish each product’s business value and support messaging, communication, and customer outreach as needed
- Facilitates release planning with stakeholders as well as weekly demos
- Is a key role on Agile team(s) and works onsite with the team on a daily basis, leveraging Jira, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe methodology)
- Integrates usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction and ensure customer driven design
- Align outward facing product requirements and stakeholders
WHO YOU ARE
- Bachelor's degree in technical field; Masters preferred
- 5+ years of experience working in PO/management roles, Supply Chain, or Procurement
- Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from tech, design, and business
- Proven knowledge of standard product management practices, technology and supporting industry principles
- Experience with digital products, including product strategy, vision, and gathering of requirements
- Understanding and knowledge of various functional operational roles (such as R&D, Materials Management/ Supply Chain and Procurement) and how they interact with product offering
- Relevant technical skills (e.g., SQL) to support product management activities, data collection, etc., as needed
- Experience with change management in organizations
- Skilled in building relationships and navigating through organizations cross-functionally
- Demonstrates team leadership – Experienced in assessing how the team is doing and drive necessary actions to improve
- Demonstrated analytic and quantitative skills with the ability to structure and solve problems
WHY US?
We're accelerating our ambition to become a best-in-class Digital leader by making data-driven investments that drive smarter business decisions. As the guardians of 200 beloved brands and the creators of innovative products, we're dedicated To Sustainably Grow by Delighting More Consumers Globally. What we build today helps bring joy to customers, consumers, and communities around the world tomorrow. Ready to build the future of food, now? Have a seat at our table and join our Digital Revolution.
Ready to help future-proof our legacy? Join our table, and Let's Make Life Delicious!
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