Product Owner Data and Analytics Meesa

4 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Danone Full time

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**
- **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.
- 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 DevOps 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.

**Requirements**:
- 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 organi



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