Unclassified - Chicago, IL

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Chicago, IL
5,001-10,000 employees

About the position

The Digital Supply Chain - Customer, Product Owner role is pivotal in supporting the Customer Excellence transformation through the implementation of digitally enabled products. This dynamic position utilizes the Agile framework to deliver significant value for Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) by achieving Tier 2 savings, reducing fines, and ensuring superior product availability through enhancements in Customer Fill Rate (CFR), in-stocks, and on-shelf availability. The role is integral to user adoption and the overall end-user experience, facilitating seamless integration with various functional groups including supply chain, transportation, demand planning, and customer relations. In this role, the Product Owner is responsible for managing the team's backlog, driving iteration and story planning for developers, and contributing to the vision, roadmap, and overall value of the platform. The Digital Supply Chain - Customer, Product Owner collaborates closely with Data Engineering, Business Intelligence Engineers, UI/UX Designers, Power Platform Engineers, and Scrum Masters to ensure effective delivery from ideation through to product release and change management. Regular project updates are communicated to cross-functional stakeholders and leaders on a bi-weekly basis, highlighting progress, product demonstrations, and addressing any risks to remove blockers. The position requires active participation in Agile ceremonies, including daily scrums, retrospectives, backlog refinements, sprint planning, and sprint reviews. The Product Owner represents end users in discussions with the development team, ensuring a deep understanding of product use cases and business requirements. By leveraging end-user feedback, the Product Owner prioritizes enhancements for the backlog and formulates bi-weekly priorities and sprint goals. Collaboration with process excellence teams is essential to build business requirements and make key design decisions that support the desired processes and technical designs. The role also involves conducting user acceptance testing of new features and leading change management initiatives, including training and support for end users during feature releases.

Responsibilities

  • Contributes to the Vision, Roadmap and Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)
  • Attend and lead discussions in all Agile ceremonies - daily scrum, retrospective, backlog refinement, sprint planning and sprint review.
  • Attend and contribute to the PO Sync to collaborate with other Product Owners and Cross Functional teams.
  • Represents the end users for development team's questions and has a deep understanding of the product use cases and business requirements.
  • Drives end user adoption and engagement through communication & small group sessions.
  • Leverages end user feedback on areas of success and opportunity and value proposition for enhancements for backlog prioritization.
  • Formulates bi-weekly priorities and sprint goals for the Team Backlog in Sprint Planning and Refinement.
  • Collaborates with process excellence teams to build business requirements and key design decisions to support the TO-BE process and technical designs.
  • Participates and signs off in feature wireframe and demonstrations to advise if key design decisions are met and approved.
  • Conduct and approve user acceptance testing of new features in lower environment prior to production release.
  • Lead change management through supporting development E2E feature training, coordinate feature releases, and conducting end user training & hyper-care.
  • Participates in quarterly planning events (PI planning) to outline 13-week roadmap with development teams.
  • Leads breakout rooms to conduct quarterly iteration planning and OKR setting.
  • Coaches development team to simplify complex challenges and solutions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, Finance or Economics preferred
  • 5 to 7 years' experience in Supply Chain Management (Operations, Procurement, Logistics + Planning)
  • Agile experience or certification preferred
  • Demonstrated leadership and effective communication skills
  • Analytical problem solver with attention to detail
  • Self-motivated owner, exemplifies the KHC values
  • Project management skills

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401k plan
  • Paid holidays
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Employee discount programs
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