Senior Product Owner - Business Intelligence Center

Job Summary:

• Is both business and technically savvy with the leadership skills and gravitas to influence direction and work collaboratively across the organization.

• Is well-versed in data governance, protection, and privacy

• Is inquisitive and curious ... gets excited about solving problems

• Is comfortable working autonomously (in support of a function or BU) but with strategic direction from the center (Global Data and Analytics)

• Is always thinking about how the data can be monetized and/or differentiate Sysco in the marketplace.

• Will lead a team of ~ 5-7+ but deal with a much larger stakeholder group.The extended team of shared engineers, architects, data scientists, and functional analysts will be much larger and project dependent.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Break down the product vision into actionable user stories, prioritize the backlog, and ensure the development team delivers incrementally.

• Act as the primary point of contact for the POD, facilitating communication between the team, business stakeholders and SMEs, and the product manager to clarify requirements and resolve roadblocks.

• Manage POD team and capacity, ensuring a collaborative and business-aligned deliverable.

• Develop a strategy to better leverage the capabilities and analytics while rationalizing the reports and enhancing insights.

• Assist in defining and developing KPIs that are focused on business outcomes and are predictive and prescriptive in nature.

• Work with data scientists and ML Ops team members to influence AI solution strategy and translate output to drive business comprehension, feedback collection, and solution adoption.

• Design experiments and execute them through the team to evaluate and measure the impact of prioritized initiatives.

Education Required:

BA/BS - Business, Math, Statistics, Analytics

Education Preferred:

MBA - Business, Math, Statistics, Analytics

Experience Required:

8+ years of experience - 3-5 years as Product Owner, preferably in Data Analytics; or Sysco relevant experience

Experience Preferred:

5-7 years as Product Owner, preferably in Data Analytics, or Sysco relevant experience

Licenses/Certification Preferred:

Statistics, Analytics, Data Science

Technical Skills and Abilities:

• Is well versed in statistics, mathematics, data science but also understands business models, finances and data security / compliance.
• Understands the standard data processes and can teach and coach the organization to emulate those concepts in both critical thinking and in how they report and analyze their data.
• Has the appropriate / relevant experience and/or educational background.

Language Requirements:

English, Bilingual a plus

Physical Demands:

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Travel Requirements:

5-10%

Work Environment:

Hybrid, following guidelines of GSC