Product Owner Lead - Finished Goods

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Product Owner Lead - Finished Goods is skilled at meshing Product information (PIM), Product Data Management (PDM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) product knowledge with business needs and identifying innovative solutions that leverage the multiple product technology platforms. The lead is the primary link between OC business teams and product development team responsible for executing Finished Good product releases.

The lead brings expertise in current and evolving PIM relevant information technologies (SAP, Step by Stibo, Adobe, Content Management Systems, Digital Technology, Syndication platforms, and Digital Asset Management). Ideates with business and technical teams to identify appropriate data solutions to drive full value from investment in PIM technology platform.

This role engages in soliciting feedback from product stakeholders and is accountable for planning and delivery of project functional releases and optimizations. The lead collaborates closely with business and technology teams to develop a relevant and realistic product roadmap that support each business and become a subject matter expert on developed Finished Good solutions. The lead builds and fosters strong working relationships with Global Information Services partners, functional business partners, third party providers and elevates the PIM product acumen across the company.

Reports to:

GIS Leader - Master Data Management, Product, Program, and Practice

Span of Control:
Individual Contributor; will lead external contractors

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Knowing Our Businesses and their Strategies

* Build relationships within the GIS organization, cross-functionally, and with key stakeholders; ensure effective contact to remain aligned with functional objectives

* Understand the strategic direction of the company's businesses and execute functional strategies to support and enhance business results; be knowledgeable of the project work that supports this direction and implications to the business

* Provide guidance and have knowledge of the required development processes and tasks necessary to bring business needs to implemented solutions

* Develop solutions that meet business needs and add value

Executing the Strategy / Business leadership

* Support ongoing initiatives to onboard new divisions, customers, departments, and products onto PIM, PDM, Syndication, and DAM

* Work with stakeholders to expand workflow, webUI, data models, back and forth integrations, brand, and attribution for new products and maintenance of products

* Develop relationships with the divisional and business unit subject matter experts, business product owners, sales, marketing, communications, OC Studio, product managers, and product content specialists

Product leadership

* Leverage PIM/PDM/DAM product and technology expertise to educate and proactively influence commercial and business decisions that increase value to our marketing, commercial and engineering teams. Drive finished good product adoption and change management with all stakeholders.

* The Finished Goods lead works with business units and data architecture to govern omnichannel data, quality, and processes:

* Lead and support on-going initiatives to on-board new products into the finished goods software. Be instrumental in this initiative by becoming the subject matter expert (SME) of PDM, PIM and DAM software.

* Perform and/or support data modeling, data standardization, data cleanup, data migration/conversion, software setup/configurations, user-acceptance testing, deployments from development, test, to production environments, and training.

* Work with product leaders and data stewards to monitor data integrity, maintain data, linking digital assets to appropriate products on an on-going basis.

* Create and maintain new business rules, validation rules and workflows within finished goods software, export data feeds to meet business system requirements, syndication or distributor product informaiton requirments.

* Create and maintain import data feeds for data being automatically imported from other business systems.

* Create and lead or co-lead data governance committee/team that as a team defines data standards, monitors data conformance, communicates health of data, provides training and/or support in the efforts to create and/or cleanup data.

* Lead, co-lead, and/or perform future on-boarding of data into the software applications to support ERP's, e-catalog ecommerce, website, business intelligence, other business systems and external customer/distributor needs. This may require defining requirements, modification to data models, defining new data standards, performing and/or leading data migration efforts, and performing and/or leading user acceptance testing (UAT).

Innovate and think strategically

* Partner with Global Information Services (GIS), business and commercial leadership to formulate and maintain a finished goods product roadmap of current and future features and functionalities by…