Product Owner, Digital Agriculture Operations

**Position Title**: Product Owner, Digital Agriculture Operations
**Position Type**: Regular - Full-Time
**Position Location**: Toronto HQ
**Requisition ID**: 35029
We know the importance that food plays in people's lives - the power it has to bring people, families and communities together. Our purpose is to bring enjoyment to people's lives through great tasting food, in a way which reflects our values. McCain has recently committed to implementing regenerative agriculture practices across 100 percent of our potato acreage by 2030. Ask us more about our commitment to sustainability.
OVERVIEW
McCain is embarking on a digital transformation. As part of this transformation, we are making significant investments into our data systems, structures and policies, and building digital products for our customers, key suppliers and McCain team members to enable digital processes and data-driven automation over time.
Our Technology team's goal is to inspire growth through innovative technology experiences. Our digital teams are key to delivering this ambition. McCain has established digital teams in Manufacturing and Commercial and we are now looking forward to expanding our investments in Agriculture embedded in agriculture operations and storage.
McCain is looking for a Product Owner with a strong knowledge of the marketplace of agri-tech/science solutions and a proven track record of successfully delivering digital products in an Agriculture context for a global organization.
PURPOSE
Data is at the heart of how we do Agriculture at McCain. We are looking for a Product Owner to execute on our technology ambition to deliver ag operations and storage solutions that will improve the yield, quality and supply of potatoes in line with McCain's goal to implement regenerative agriculture practices across 100 per cent of the global potato acreage.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Reporting to the Sr. Director, Digital Technology Agriculture you will
Partner with global and regional commercial leaders of McCain to co-create a 2-3-year vision & roadmap to digitally transform Agriculture operations and storage processes across the McCain global organization.
Lead and direct Technology teams to support execution of the prioritized of initiatives
Establish KPIs and measures to track the progress and report the deliverables of technology initiatives.
Continually improve customer data quality & enrichment to enable prioritization of sales and service initiatives
Digitize to simplify commercial processes and embed data-led decision making and insights to enable continual improvement.
Look to replace any legacy solutions with global best practice and platforms.
Infuse knowledge of technology trends and competitor activity into decision making
Product Management
Build user-friendly tools & solutions that will drive user adoption & engagement
Understand key user pain points and current day-to-day processes that will be impacted by owned use cases
Bring a UX/UI-centric approach to solution development and deployment, seeking iterative feedback from stakeholders and adjusting strategy accordingly
Establish a clear vision and define success
Work with business stakeholders to prioritize problems to solve and regions to deploy
Establish a user feedback process that gets incorporated into product plans
Proactively Explore industry trends and advancements in technology to identify new and leading solutions that will significantly impact the achievement of the business objectives and move McCain ahead of the competition.
Identify opportunities within the business to improve or provide data & insights to enhance decisions or facilitate agility.
Technology Delivery
Develops, owns, and executes product roadmap.
Translates product roadmap features into well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria
Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.
Participates in the development process with the development team and external partners to deliver product changes.
Work closely with Data and Analytics teams to deliver Ai and data-led solutions.
Prioritizes and maintains the backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders.
Partners with product stakeholders to define the user experience
Identifies change management impacts to end-user community and collaborates with respective stakeholders to manage/mitigate
Ensures data & Insights are available to create actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer.
Develops and maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment.
Understands Product roadmap risks, issues, and blockers actively assists with issue resolution
IDEAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Minimum of 5 years of experience working as a product owner or in a product management capacity in the agri-tech industry (with evidence of progressive roles)
Good business acum