IT&Data PO D&A MDM Platform tbc

As Product Owner for the Master Data Workflow, you deeply understand the needs of the requestors, data stewards, approvers, and downstream consumers who depend on these workflows, and you own the vision, roadmap, and backlog of the platform. You will Own workflow capabilities supporting Product, Customer, Vendor, and future master data domains across the enterprise. You are mandated by the organization and its stakeholders to turn that vision into a product that delivers maximum value to Danone and its business functions — and you are accountable end-to-end for user satisfaction with the workflow product.

You own the “what” and the “why.” You define outcomes, prioritize the backlog, and decide what gets built and in what order.

Responsibilities

Product Vision & Strategy

● Define, communicate, and continuously evolve the vision and strategy for the Master Data Workflow, aligned to the MDM and IT&Data strategy and to the needs of the business functions it serves.

● Translate business and data-governance objectives into a clear product direction and measurable outcomes.

Backlog Management

● Own, maintain, and prioritize a single, transparent product backlog for the Workflow, spanning enhancement, project, and transformation demand.

Requirement Gathering & Refinement

● Work closely with business process owners, data owners, and data stewards to gather, clarify, and refine requirements into well-formed backlog items and user stories.

● Ensure data-quality and governance needs are expressed as product requirements, in partnership with Data Governance and DQ teams.

Release Planning & Roadmapping

● Own the product roadmap and plan and prioritize releases with the squad and stakeholders.

● Manage the global roadmap and its communication — keeping stakeholders aligned on what is coming, when, and why.

Plan & Review

● Plan the work with the squad, then review and accept completed increments, demonstrating delivered value to stakeholders.

● Keep the backlog and product artefacts current for the applicable delivery framework (Scrum, Kanban, hybrid / waterfall).

Dependency Management

● Identify and manage dependencies — across Orsoft, SAP ECC / S/4HANA, the integration layer (e.g. Tibco), and other products — that affect the platform’s success, coordinating and escalating through product and program governance as needed.

● Act as the primary liaison between the squad and stakeholders across Finance, Marketing, R&I, and Supply Chain, ensuring needs, trade-offs, and decisions are understood on both sides.

● Represent the product in product-group, architecture, and program governance forums, and communicate value delivered to both technical and executive audiences.

Acceptance Criteria Definition

● Define clear acceptance criteria so the team knows when a requirement is complete and ready for release, safeguarding quality and fitness-for-purpose from the user’s perspective.

Continuous Improvement

● Actively seek feedback from stakeholders, squad members, and end-users to identify improvement opportunities, and foster adherence to product and agile best practices.

● Use adoption, quality, and performance signals to drive simplification and continuous improvement of the workflow product.

Workflow Governance.

Technical requirements

● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field.

● 7+ years in enterprise IT&Data, including proven experience as a Product Owner / Product Manager (or equivalent) owning the vision, roadmap, and backlog of a technical or platform product.

● Strong command of agile product ownership: backlog management and prioritization, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, release planning, and working in Scrum / Kanban / hybrid (SAFe an advantage).

● Sufficient domain fluency in SAP master data (material / product, customer, vendor) and in master-data workflow / BPM (e.g. Orsoft, SAP Business Workflow, SAP MDG) to prioritize credibly, shape requirements, and partner effectively with the technical Chapter — without needing to be the hands-on design authority.

● Demonstrated ability to translate business and data-governance needs into product outcomes and measurable value.

● Excellent stakeholder management across business and IT up to senior-management level; able to align priorities and to say “no” constructively.

● Outcome- and data-driven decision-making; comfortable prioritizing under constraints and ambiguity.

● Fluent English (written and spoken); effective in a global, multicultural, matrixed organization.

● Experience supporting global template deployments, regional rollouts, and business transformation programs spanning multiple markets and operating companies.

Additional responsibilities

● Product ownership of master-data, workflow, or platform products in a large, matrixed enterprise.

● Familiarity with Orsoft-based master data processes and with S/4HANA migration programs and their workflow implications — enough to prioritize and plan, not to configure.

● Understanding of data-governance operating models (data owners, stewards, councils) and how workflows operationalize them.

● Awareness of process mining, workflow analytics, and automation (RPA, low-code) as levers on the product roadmap.

● FMCG / CPG industry experience and its master-data characteristics (innovation cycles, regulatory attributes, customer hierarchies).

● Working knowledge of agile / hybrid delivery (Scrum, SAFe) and ITSM (ITIL) as it relates to product operations.

● Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architectures, and workflow orchestration across SAP and non-SAP ecosystems.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering