Manager, Product Supply Analytics Product Owner

You will be a professional with a **retail/supply chain industry background **, proficient in **Agile Methodology **with a good understanding of Digital Technologies, including but not limited to Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Insights Engineering, Data Warehousing, and Data Science.

In this role you will be a crucial leader of a Scrum team, contributing to the definition of the **Product Roadmap **by liaising with the business stakeholders, managing the product backlog and constantly creating buy-in within the organization.

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Manager, Product Supply Analytics Product Owner

**How You Will Make a Difference**

**_What you will do: _**

**Product Roadmap and Strategy**
- Contribute to the development of the product strategy and product roadmap, aligned to company’s key strategic pillars, working with users and Senior Manager.
- Research the market, users and competitors to keep aware of relevant industry trends, both regionally and globally.

**Product Design**
- Collaborate with other digital product teams and engineering teams or external software providers to design the product that provides best customer experience end to end.
- Work with technology, customer experience and Product Supply teams on design mock-ups/prototypes for the product(s) to anticipate visually customer experience.

**Product Development**
- Be part of an execution working within an Agile development framework.
- Collaborate within a global team of Product Managers, Product Owners, Project Managers and Technologists to align product roadmaps, delivery schedules, and capabilities.

**Benefits realization and Benefits Performance**
- Monitor, with support of business analysts, key product performance indicators (KPIs), as well as release-specific success metrics.
- Partner with business enablement functions to ensure best experience to our customers when using delivered products and features.

**Product Management and Partnership**
- Communicate to business stakeholders progress and benefit realization, looking at it through business and customers’ lenses.
- Engage with partner ecosystem to optimize performance and results.
- Lead planning of product releases and set expectations for delivery of new features.
- Responsible for setting, prioritizing and evaluating work delivered from outsource partners.

**_How you will do it: _**
- Create buy-in for the product roadmap with business stakeholders and Senior Manager.
- Connect product roadmap to incremental product development and to value realization.
- Define set of metrics to measure value of the product once made available.
- Acts as primary contact between technical (software-engineering, architects, testers) and other teams, such as Product Supply teams, operations, customer experience, legal, finance, etc.
- Put understanding of business and customers need in validating products/features.
- Develop risk mitigation and lifecycle management strategies to minimize business disruption and to ensure product serviceability.

**_What success looks like: _**
- Acquire a deep understanding of your customers and digital opportunities to develop the Product Supply Analytics strategy and roadmap.
- Ship loved products within the domain of Product Supply Analytics to complement VF’s Data & Analytics transformation.
- Build strong partnership with users, key business stakeholders, digital players and partners on the market, through technology and business innovations.

**Free to Be, Inclusion & Diversity**

As a purpose-led, performance driven company, we strive to foster a culture of belonging based on respect, connection, openness, and authenticity. We are committed to building and maintaining a workplace that celebrates the diversity of our associates, allowing them to bring their authentic selves to work every day.

**Skills for Success**

Years of related professional experience: 7-10 years with minimum 3 years of people management experience

Educational position requirements: A formal education and subsequent undergraduate/graduate degrees are nice to have, but we are most interested in your total experience and professional achievements.

Scrum Alliance, Certified Scrum Product Owner

**_What we expect you already know: _**
- Strong product management, Scrum, Agile and/or DevOps experiences.
- Excellent communication skills, to be a leader and influencer, able to interact with all levels of organization.
- Business acumen preferably developed as part of a Sourcing or/and Supply Chain business team.
- Front end customer experience design skills are a plus.
- Knowledge of AWS, Tableau would be a plus.
- Affirmative in opinion and decisive in actions.
- Integrity and courageousness - Dare to say “No” for the Company’s best interests when needed.
- Empathy - Sensitive and communicative in a multiple stakeholders’ situation.
- Open-minded to ideas and inclusive.
- End-to-end mindset.
- Good to have - Scrum Alliance, Certif