Product Owner, Supply Chain

Location: Markham, Ontario

**Job Description**:
The Product Owner, Supply Chain is responsible for managing the Supply Chain systems through the Product Lifecycle (Strategic Vision, Implementation, and Care & Feeding of Production Systems)
- Essential Duties
- Define product vision and strategy
- Create Product Roadmap
- Lead 3rd party product/vendor evaluation
- Create user stories
- Prioritize backlogs
- Partner with Business and Architect team to decide Buy vs Build
- Manage overall projects/Backlogs
- Responsible delivery deadline
- Oversee Azure DevOps
- Sprint Planning
- Retrospective Review
- Manage business relationship
- Regular update meeting on backlog prioritization and roadmap
- Regular meeting with business for in-take requirements/projects
- Regular update meeting on production support issues
- Demo newly developed/deployed product features to business leaders
- Manage vendor relationship for products acquired from 3rd party
- Manage vendor relationship for 3rd party implementation partners
- Contract Negotiation and Management (Renew, termination etc)
- Manage cost for any 3rd party engagement
- Lead team to support production issues
- Manage Tickets for the stream the PO is responsible
- Resource planning for delivery
- Team collaboration, coaching, empowerment,

Experience, Education, Certifications
_(List minimum required to enter the role.)_
- Bachelor’s Degree preferably in any Information Technologies (IT) discipline, but IT Management Information Systems or Computer Systems Analyst discipline is most preferred.
- 5 years as an IT Product Owner
- 5 years of Retail Experience

Competencies
- Knowledge of Warehouse Management, Replenishment, Labour Management, MHE/Robotics, Slotting, Transportation Management, EDI, and Yard Management
- Knowledge of product onboarding a plus
- Demonstrate experience in defining product strategy and roadmaps
- Proven expertise in translating business strategy into product strategy
- Demonstrated experience in documenting Product Requirements with prioritized features and corresponding justification.
- Work with external third parties to assess partnerships and opportunities.
- Be a technical expert with respect to the merchandising systems at Pet Valu
- Be an expert as to market offerings and strategic direction for Supply Chain solutions. Provide insight to stakeholders on the products and market.
- Write high-level requirements (L1)
- Document the Pet Valu core competencies and processes in partnership with the Architect, Business Analyst and development teams
- Act as a leader within Pet Valu
- Follow Standards of operation for Roadmap Development and Maintenance. Suggest and implement continuous improvement to the roadmap and prioritization process.
- Drive action throughout the organization to get IT Products adoption and optimization.
- Strong commitment and expertise to keeping IT Applications healthy through patching and life-cycle management.
- Ability to clearly communicate to stakeholders the status of IT Products
- Provide leadership to team members and peers by collaborating with others; articulating ideas and viewpoints to senior management, peers and others; identifying and initiating improvements in process, and systems; managing resources; driving the resolution of issues; and holding self and team accountable for results.
- Strong Vendor management skills
- Establish and continuously review key metrics and KPIs, analysis and trends to continuously improvement business performance.
- Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders.
- Strong relationship building skills & communication skills.
- Facilitate program reviews / status meetings to executives and senior managers.
- Other proficiencies: Communication / Technical Understanding / Leadership / Teamwork / Stakeholder Management / Multitask

Technical Skills
- 3 -5 years as an IT Product Owner
- 10 years working in Supply Chain Applications
- 5 years of Retail Experience

CORPHIRE