South Africa Job Openings
Danone
Product Owner Data and Analytics MEESA
Johannesburg
September 10, 2024
About the job
Danone Business Services is seeking for Product Owner - Data & Analytics, MEESA, based in South Africa. With our global presence, brands and business and our mission of bringing health through food to as many people as possible; we believe that people growth is a key asset to reach a sustainable business performance.
To succeed in this journey, we're looking for the right talent and personalities eager to bring their energy and ideas to a meaningful project. Take this opportunity to GROW together and experience a culture that empowers you to express your ideas and share what you are passionate about!
About you You will be responsible for:
Strategic Leadership
Delivering Change
Operational Excellence
About The Job
About You
We offer:
A job which could easily turn in to a career in Danone. We believe everyone is born with superpowers, something which comes natural to you. We know this uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energy, so we believe in all Danoner’s potential and when we build careers based on these superpowers and when we develop everyone’s potential to the fullest magic happens. This is how we like to see Talent Management in Danone.
This is a highly visible position within Danone; you will interact with Internal - Marketing, Sales Supply chain, SSD and External - Suppliers, CO-packers. Challenge, innovate, convince and find alignment when needed. This role has no direct reports.
To succeed in this journey, we're looking for the right talent and personalities eager to bring their energy and ideas to a meaningful project. Take this opportunity to GROW together and experience a culture that empowers you to express your ideas and share what you are passionate about!
About you You will be responsible for:
Strategic Leadership
- Data Mindset: Drives the usage/adoption of the Data products through underlying methodologies including usage of test & learn approach, user centricity, data & analytics, and automation.
- External Perspective: Brings the "outside-In" by identifying key partnerships with leading data and technology providers to bring industry best practices to Danone.
Delivering Change
- Data products delivery: Accountable for the delivery of data products capabilities supporting the functional strategy (on time, in scope, on budget). Ensure management of Data Products through lifecycle.
- SSOT activation: Responsible for the utilization across markets of the Single Source of Truth Strategy
- Promotes Data & Analytics: Takes an active role in promoting and communicating about data products and data strategy across all communication channels.
Operational Excellence
- Scoping: Ensure scoping and functional design is delivered and supports project squads with delivery of strategic projects with respect of agreed timeline and budget
- Backlog: Builds and manages the backlog of user’s stories/requirements and prioritizes for development accordingly.
- MVPs: Maximizes efficiency in a constantly evolving environment using Minimal Viable Product delivery, and rapid prototyping.
- Links deliverables to vision: Provides customer and business context to the delivery teams, empowering them explore creative solutions, whilst simultaneously, ensuring the team delivers against scope and time commitments.
- Value added: Possesses a strong analytical background, and ability to deliver value to end users.
- Product innovation: Identify new opportunities to enhance current operating processes and implement strategies to address those opportunities.
About The Job
- Defining Data Analytics product strategy for a functional domain.
- Managing Data Products end to end lifecycle (from ideation phase to decommissioning phase).
- Maximizing ROI by identifying and prioritizing the product features by business value.
- Working closely with Business or Process Owner to define product strategy, and with Scrum Product.
- Own and manage product backlog and to report the performance of products and applications.
- Be proficient in the business processes that collect data and those that use data.
- Be an expert in understanding and communicating data lineage, where they come from, their data quality, their transformation and where they are used, why they are used.
- Developing and managing business requirements, writing user stories, and communicating vision to developers and testers.
- Leveraging Agile methodologies in the product development phases.
- Defining product cost models and assuring control of the budget and costs of data products.
- Being determined to become an inspiration to business or process end users of data and analytics and their management.
- Managing the total cost of product development, ownership, and user unit cost including spend on vendors and services provided by other platforms within Danone (IT, Enterprise architecture, etc.)
- Defining support model for the product in collaboration with Global Data & Analytics Dev Ops team.
- Liaise with Solution & Data Architects on Data Architecture.
- Liaise with Data Excellence team on Data Governance.
- Liaise with Data Science team on AI.
- Work with project squads to support delivery of strategic projects with respect of agreed timeline & budget, ensuring proper scoping and functional design.
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- Proven track record of implementing Data products related to data in the areas of sell-out Market share (Nielsen, IRI), Media, Finance, Supply chain, TPM, In Store Execution, e-Commerce etc, and experience in integrating sources with standard MDM principles.
- 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 data catalogue documentation and manage the product use throughout all the stages of the product lifecycle.
- Experience working with Data Architects, Ingestion, Data scientists and Visualization teams. Ability to define user stories and prioritizing backlog in accordance with vision of the product.
- Strong ability to connect and federate distinct stakeholders in a complex organization, managing stakeholders from Global, Local, Business and IT colleagues.
About You
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Information technology, or equivalent field of study.
- Minimum 7 years of work experience in IT Data & Analytics.
- (Preferred) Waterfall and Agile methodology experience.
- (Preferred) Previous experience working in Product Teams.
- (Preferred) Transversal knowledge of modern Data organization (Data Warehousing, Analytics, BI, Big Data, Operational Data Store, Metadata, Master Data, Unstructured Data, ETL/ELT) & Cloud Data technologies (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Informatica).
- Proficiency in English, excellent written and communication skills
- Capability to express complex data concepts into business language for stakeholder management.
We offer:
A job which could easily turn in to a career in Danone. We believe everyone is born with superpowers, something which comes natural to you. We know this uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energy, so we believe in all Danoner’s potential and when we build careers based on these superpowers and when we develop everyone’s potential to the fullest magic happens. This is how we like to see Talent Management in Danone.
This is a highly visible position within Danone; you will interact with Internal - Marketing, Sales Supply chain, SSD and External - Suppliers, CO-packers. Challenge, innovate, convince and find alignment when needed. This role has no direct reports.
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