IT&Data Product Owner (Marketing Data Domain)

As the global Product Owner of the Brand Growth Model, your product portfolio will be composed of:

BGM Data product(s): strategic datasets providing key information on Brands performance and insights, leveraging Marketing data assets from external vendors.

Your global mission will be to:

1. Define the vision, the strategy and the implementation roadmap for your BGM Data Products by liaising with global and local business partners and leading the technical delivery team.

2. Create critical enablers, such as the data ingestion framework, data quality framework, data governance.

3. Build Analytical tools and dashboards allowing insights creation.

As a Product Owner, you will be leading creation of Data Products for the Strategy & Insights Domain and will be part of the Data & Analytics (D&A) products team. Our vision is to harmonize and standardize Marketing processes and systems, accelerate performance through reliable data, robust insights, data driven and AI enabled decisions.

We are looking for a Product Owner to lead and work in partnership with business experts, and global and local data and technology teams to identify and implement solutions to meet the needs of evolving business. You will work closely with other D&A teams.

We are looking for a candidate who has a strong mix of both CPG Commercial/Marketing functional expertise and technical expertise in data management.

In this position you will be responsible for:

Strategic Leadership:

• Data Mindset: driving the usage/adoption of the Brands Performance Domain data product(s) through underlying methodologies including usage of test & learn approach, user centricity, data & analytics and automation. Keep driven on the incremental sustainable business value. Together with the data owner, define the use cases, key issues to resolve and solutions related to Brand Performance data, including:

  • Sellout

  • Household Panel

  • Brand Health Tracker

  • Media spendings and share of voice

  • Product Testing

  • Social Listening

• External Perspective: bringing the "outside-in" by identifying key partnerships with leading data and technology providers to bring industry’s best practices to Danone

Delivering Change:

• Data product(s) delivery:

  • accountable for the delivery of data product capabilities (on time, in scope, on budget). Ensuring management of data product(s) through lifecycle. Coordinate with all data providers such as NielsenIQ, Circana, IQVIA, Kantar, IPSOS… ensuring the data is fit for purpose.

• Strong partnership:

  • With the Global Business Data Owners

  • With external data providers. 

  • Understand the local market context of Brand Performance data usage and needs to inform global design choices. 

• SSOT activation: responsible for the utilization of the Single Source of Truth strategy related to the Strategy & Insights domain

• Promoting Data & Analytics: taking an active role in promoting and communicating about data products and data strategy across communication channels

Operational Excellence:

• Scoping: ensuring scoping and functional design is delivered and supporting project squads with delivery of strategic projects with respect of agreed timelines and budget

• Backlog: building and managing the backlog of requirements and prioritizing for development accordingly

• MVPs: maximizing efficiency in a constantly evolving environment using Minimal Viable Product delivery, and rapid prototyping

• Linking deliverables to vision: providing business context to the delivery team, empowering them to explore creative solutions, whilst simultaneously ensuring the team delivers against scope and time commitments

• Value added: possessing a strong analytical background and ability to deliver value to end users

• Communication: maintaining proximity and close connection with the business stakeholders, business Product Owner(s) and the delivery team to ensure strong cooperation and transparency in execution

Experience in developing innovative data solutions, agile ways of working, intellectual curiosity, and leading agile delivery teams are critical to enable you to be successful. Furthermore, it is important that you possess strong problem-solving skills and ability to logically analyze complex requirements or processes.

You will be a passionate and proven leader with the ability to gain business partner agreement, communicate confidently at both the technical and data team level, and collaborate with a wide variety of technical and non-technical teams.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years experience in FMCG/Retail Data & Analytics

• Proven track record of implementing data products related to the Marketing, Strategy & Insights domain

• Ability to demonstrate a mix of technical skills and business processes knowledge and proven experience in rolling out a data product in multiple markets. Essential to have experience in managing the product use throughout all the stages of the product lifecycle

• Experience working with data architects, data engineers, data analysts, data Viz developers, data owners, and data stewards in an agile framework. Expert knowledge and demonstrated abilities to lead squads and tribes with the ability to define user stories and prioritize backlog in accordance with the product vision

• Knowledgeable on some of the following providers: NielsenIQ, Circana, Kantar, IQVIA, IPSOS…  

• Experience defining the data product vision, OKRs and managing a product backlog

• Strong ability to connect and federate distinct stakeholders in a complex organization, managing stakeholders from Global, Local, Business and IT teams

• General understanding of modern data strategies and solutions using cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, Google), Data Visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau…)

At the Danone group we are fulfilling our mission, according to which „we bring health to as many people as possible”.

Behind our brands is always technology pushing them forward. We know that the future of business is IT and data. That’s why we use advanced and innovative IT solutions which are implemented in all Danone units around the world. We are currently developing an IT & Data Hub in Warsaw and in three other locations around the world: Kuala Lumpur, Mexico City and Paris. Those Hubs will support IT & Data vision: by 2025, data & technology are strategic differentiators of Danone, powered by an agile IT & Data organization.

For more information about Danone, our divisions and culture, please explore www.careers.danone.com.

WE OFFER

A revolutionary job that will be part of the digital transformation of global FMCG leader. We consider that it starts with people who notice more and make better decisions. And that’s exactly the kind of people we want to attract to DANONE.

We know that the future of business is IT and data. We are looking for catalysts for change. We ensure you work with great products, and technologies in an international environment, learning from experts and experienced managers but how much you will develop in this position depends on you!

We value smart working so that’s why while being focused on results, we offer flexible working hours and a home office policy. You are able to work from the office in Warsaw twice a week. Want to move to Warsaw? OK! We have a relocation package to help you out!

On top of that, you will have access to the benefits we offer to you and your family, including private medical care, benefits package for parents, life insurance, social fund, or employee discounts.

We’ve always been changers.

WHAT NEXT?

Click the “Apply” button and create your profile in the recruitment system by uploading a CV. We will get acquainted with your experience and then we will arrange the selected candidates for the first telephone interview. Next steps are two meetings with your future managers at Danone.

Do not hesitate and join our IT&DATA Team in Poland which vision is that the technology is a strategic differentiator for DANONE, powered by an IT agile organization.

We embrace diversity in our organization. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability status.