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. Be part of a team that embraces adaptability and values continuous improvement, ensuring we stay at the forefront of technology advancements on a global scale.
You will work with the Customer Portfolio teams. The Customer portfolio will hold all the products related to B2B and Customer Tech Products. The key impacted Business teams are the Sales and Commercial Functions.
Your role will seat under the Sales Execution product family, and you will lead a product squad, Distribution Management Systems (DMS).
The position covers activities related to DMS to enable our businesses to improve and grow across our markets, with a specific focus on Asia:
• Wholesalers and Distributors Engagement & Management
• Wholesalers and Distributors Collaboration & Incentives
The current Pernod Ricard ecosystem is a fragmented operating model. The DMS Product Owner will act as a change enabler to define with our Global business counterparts a target blueprint, the archetypes and their associated routes to market, as well as our strategy to meet our company’s ambitions.
Forward looking, you will build your squad and setup strong relationships with, notably:
• Our Tech Proximity Teams, in charge of capturing and funnelling business needs, especially the Proximity Teams in contact with our biggest markets,
• And the Global Business Process Teams, in charge of defining the global strategy for all markets and the company.
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.
o Demand Management : Gather new demands to be integrated into the backlog and translate them into Features.
o 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.
o 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. Collect and consolidate Product value based on Proximity Team and Global Business Process Owners’ inputs
o Product Catalog Management : Ensure latest version and consistency between the product & service catalog and the overall product portfolio and communicate on changes & updates
o Incident Management : Lead L2/L3 incidents investigation, diagnosis and resolution
o Resource Management : Estimate Resource forecasts, adjust roadmap and prioritization based on resource availability and report on actual resource utilization
o Budget Management : 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
Reporting Line (direct/indirect): Product Manager / Portfolio Director (to Report on value estimation & team backlog and align on key directives)
Key internal stakeholders : Domain Proximity Lead (to consolidate and share Business demands and provide latest updates and news about products), Service Management (to jointly work on incident Management and resolution), Key Users (animate a set of key users during demo to catch feedbacks), Resources Lead (align on resource allocation to the Squads), Product Teams (Align on interdependencies) & Squad Members (Animate and steer daily work)
Key external stakeholders : Existing partners of the already existing applications, New partners upon validated solutions and agreements.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
· Experienced in FMCG industry
· Strong experience in Agile methodology, Product management, with an Agile Project Management certification as a minimum, ideally a Product Owner / Manager certification.
· Strategic thinking & value-driven mindset (roadmap creation, value monitoring…)
· Expertise in Distribution Management Systems, with deep understanding of business challenges in the domain
· Ability to manage in complex and VUCA environments
· Communication skills, with the ability to talk with both business & technical stakeholders
· Strong understanding of agile mindset & practices
· Negotiation/mediation skills
· People/Team management experience
