Must be able to work onsite at the ABC Supply's HQ in a hybrid arrangement.Summary: ABC Supply is North America's largest wholesale distributor of exterior and interior building products.
ABC Supply is proud to be an employee-first company. In fact, we have won the Gallup Great Workplace Award every year since its inception in 2007, and Glassdoor has named us one of the best places to work in the country. Be part of a company that recognizes your talents, rewards your efforts, and helps you reach your full potential. At ABC Supply, we have YOUR future covered.
ABC Supply is currently seeking a Product Owner to conduct the creation, productionalization and feature additions to Enterprise Analytics products. As a member of the Enterprise Analytics team at ABC you will be delivering high impact solutions driven by our executive leadership.
The Product Owner will report to the Senior Manager of Product Management, collaborating with data scientists, software engineer, data engineers, BI developers, analysts, business stakeholders and Enterprise Analytics leadership. This individual must exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills, with experience facilitating cross-team collaboration using Agile/Scrum and Flow Engineering methodologies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Works with Enterprise Analytics leadership and business stakeholders to understand product vision in the Sales & Marketing space.
- Collaborates with Enterprise Analytics leadership to align products against defined departmental roadmap.
- Adapts and executes functional or departmental business plans and contributes to the development of organizational strategies. Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges.
- Collaborates cross-functionally within Enterprise Analytics and the larger ABC IT teams to support organizational product development initiatives.
- Works with product team to translate product vision into product releases, features and user stories.
- Expertly facilitates effective product development processes within assigned value delivery teams.
- Plans and manage multiple concurrent products and / or projects.
- Authors and maintains product specifications and documentation, including business rules, process diagrams, use cases, and wireframes.
- Owns the users' experience of the product, with a commitment to creating highly useable deliverables.
- Inspects, evaluates, and communicates product progress through each development cycle.
- Gains deep understanding of business analytics objectives and uses understanding to generate product roadmap and enhancement strategy.
- Uses creativity and innovation to overcome business and technical challenges.
- Manages sprints, backlog and priorities for the product team, while adapting and remaining flexible to shifting priorities and business needs.
- Judges and informs stakeholder(s), leadership, supporting teams (QA, IT operations) and product team on product/feature delivery and projected milestones based on backlog and development cycle.
- Represents business in product team discussions, prioritizing business product requirements and making decisions that reach the best balance of business needs against technical constraints.
- Acts as product evangelist to build awareness and drive adoption of Enterprise Analytics products within the organization.
- Collects and analyze product feedback and usage data to define and prioritize continued product feature enhancements.
- Serves as primary contact for product needs, including ongoing maintenance/support.
Professional Skills: - Effective time management.
- Excellent written and oral communication.
- Project execution using various methodologies.
- Ability to mentor individuals.
- Ability to facilitate large meetings.
Qualifications: - Professional Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in product owner or project management roles using Agile and / or Flow Engineering methodologies.
- Experience facilitating discovery or ideation sessions with large stakeholder groups is required.
- Experience with Human Centered Design or other user centered design methodology
- Experience with change management. This individual will be partnering with stakeholders and IT to ensure their product is accepted, valued and supported at ABC.
- Experience in Sales & Marketing, Customer / CRM data experience is preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong cognitive ability especially with respect to understanding, documenting and describing complex technical subjects
- Excellent problem-solving, decision-making and analytical skills
Benefits may include: - Health, dental, and vision coverage - eligible after 60 days, low out of pocket
- 401(k) with generous company match - eligible after 60 days, immediately vested
- Employer paid employee assistance program
- Employer paid short term and long term disability
- Employer paid life insurance
- Flex spending
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick days
- Paid holidays
Equal Opportunity Employer / Drug Free Workplace ABC Supply values diversity and we actively encourage women, minorities, and veterans to apply.