Daps Product Owner

About the IT Hub at Nestlé

We are a multicultural and diverse team of IT professionals driving the biggest IT operations landscape of the FMCG industry, and a Digital Transformation at scale. We work with leading technologies and top external partners to provide solutions to enable Nestlé to engage with millions of consumers and customers worldwide. We transform how we use data with machine learning, advanced analytics, and introduce automation to drive Industry 4.0 opportunities.

We look for people who are curious, courageous, innovative, collaborative, and passionate about new technologies. If this is you and you want to make an impact globally, join us and there will be no limits to your career.

Position Summary

To strengthen our IT Hub in Bangalore, we are looking for an IT Product Owner within our Data Analytics Products and Services (DAPS) product group for T&P. In this position, you will work closely with IT, Project Management and the T&P function, internal & external development teams and business teams to specify, plan, design, develop, deploy and sustain high-performing T&P analytics products at scale, in order to delight our business stakeholders and receivers.

What you will do
- Engage with Product Managers, Business Analysts and Architects of IT and ADI Streams for understanding the data and analytics needs of Nestlé T&P function.
- Partner with IT T&P Stream and Corporate Function, Zone and Markets to understand, analyse, translate, and document business requirements, pain points or opportunities.
- Work with external partners, to design and build data and analytics products that deliver business value as efficiently as possible.
- You will deliver data models using a range of On-premise and Cloud toolsets, including SAPBW with HANA, new generation analytics platforms such as Azure, Snowflake, and Power BI.
- You will create Data and Analytics Products to support both standard reporting and more Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning and GenAI use cases.
- You will work using waterfall and agile development methodologies, sometimes acting as Scrum Master, sometimes as Project lead, sometimes also being the lead solution designer.
- Be the custodian of the data models and flows within your scope, ensuring they remain compliant with policies around data security and solution design standards and best practices.
- You will work with external and internal colleagues to ensure training materials for the Product area are documented, as well as oversee the handover to deployment and sustain teams.
- Support the development and curation of data products in the data catalogue.
- Support Product Managers/Product Group Managers through the full product lifecycle from new product initiation through to product retirement.

What will make you successful
- Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science, engineering, maths, finance, statistics or related discipline.
- Most likely you will come from SAP developer background, with 12+ years’ experience of building data assets and pipelines to serve analytics use cases.
- Whilst capable of performing hands-on development, you are keen to progress to leading and coaching others. You are keen to drive the work of developments teams or pods to be able to create solutions at scale.
- You have a track record of delivering analytics products at scale using SAP-BW, HANA plus newer-generation data warehousing platforms e.g. Azure services and Snowflake.
- Ideally you have experience of using modern front-end analytics tools such as Power BI and SAP SAC.
- Exposure to advanced analytics, such as Machine Learning, is considered an advantage.
- Project Management experience would be desirable, working in dispersed teams in multiple locations and using both waterfall and agile/DevOps development methodologies.
- A good understanding of data engineering and architecture standards.
- Strong experience with effective communication at different levels in the organization and in English.
- Appreciation for data democratization and the F.A.I.R data principles and data governance.
- It is required to have experience in Planning, Production Process and Transportation, along with Project management. Production KPIs and SAP domain knowledge, particularly in relation to analytics.
- Be autonomous and proactive in proposing action plans, establishing relationships and engaging with different areas of the IT organization and the business.