AB InBev - Product Owner - Celonis Product

1. PURPOSE OF ROLE

The product Owner is responsible for delivering high value Celonis products to our customer. He/She/They are to become an integral part of the scrum team and represent business user.

- This role works closely with the business and business leaders to support and implement high-quality Celonis products in an agile manner

- The role asks to be a crucial point of communication between stakeholders and development team

- The role requires experience in Logistics, Supply Chain, and Inventory Management. Detailed knowledge in Order Management / OTC (ORDER TO CASH) is an advantage

- The role demands a deep understanding of how to plan, implement and sustain business process change through Process Mining and Analytics

- The role needs understanding in Agile ways of working, following all ceremonies within the Squad

- Key qualities required are Stakeholder management, design thinking, ability to break requirement into user-stories to deliver incremental value

- Focus on driving the business value from each of Celonis products and helping operations to plan for 1YP (1 Year Plan) / 3 YP

2. KEY TASKS AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

- Supervise and advise the scrum team to meet product expectations

- Nurture ideas and solutions to existing customer problems

- Communicate effectively with team members to achieve project goals

- Extract and retrieve information and data sets to improve upon product

- Determine roadmaps for products in the creation phase

- Work closely with the scrum team throughout the development process

- Schedule and lead meetings to identify issues and fixes for projects

- Liaise at VP/Director level to drive results

- Align reporting transformation requirements with Zone/BU

- Prioritize tasks using McKinsey matrix, setting expectations, and building as per time frame following Agile

- Study processes across Countries and focus on building Products which are standardized across Countries

- Interconnect datasets across cross functional teams and bring out analytics to find opportunities for Volume growth

- Create models to do post-mortem analysis on what worked and what we can do better in future,

- Understand requirements of BU's/Countries and cascade the information to the team, planning framework and help team function as per planned process

- Follow Best Practices within Command Center to drive transformation which is aligned as per the Principles of Command Center

- Develop business-friendly presentations, transforming thoughts into key actions for business and showing the model to justify recommendations

- Understand Business cycle -1YP, 3YP (3 Year Plan) & leveraging team to provide analysis

- Assertive in communication and interact with cross functional teams to get data that helps strengthen analytics

3. BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Main Characteristics:

- This is a role in Finance side of Command Center and requires comfort with working in cross zonal/functional teams. Role requires to work in collaborative manner with Zone/BU/Country heads, and development team in CC.

- Work with Zone/BU to understand their business problems, utilize data across Brewdat /Data Lake to provide process mining insights and build dashboards that directly enhance decision making process

Evaluation Criteria (Targets):

- Delivering Business value through standardizing reports/dashboards and focusing on building Products

- Following processes and adhering to documentation goals

- High quality presentations

- Questions from business stakeholders answered satisfactorily within agreeable time

- Producing provocation, proposing what if or next level

Key Dimensions and Contacts:

- Logistics, OTC directors, Supply Chain directors, managers, and other stakeholders

Geographic Scope :

Global: EUR, NAZ, APAC & AFR with future extension to more Zones

Challenges:

- Primary challenges include identifying the requirements from zone and communicating effectively to development teams

- Working with multiple zones and best practise sharing

- Wearing multiple hats for different zones/products and ensuring timely delivery

4. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS

- Level of educational attainment required:

- Engineering/MBA Graduate/Bachelors/Other Graduate/master's degree

- Professional qualifications and accreditations/memberships required:

- 7-11 years' experience in Logistics, Order Management, OTC, Inventory & Warehouse Management

- Good functional knowledge in Logistics & Supply Chain

- Beginner level understanding of ERP Systems (SAP, SYSPRO) & data analytics

- People management & strategic consulting

- Project management, excellent interpersonal skills

- Agile ways of Working

- Language skills required

- Fluent English (speaking, reading, and writing)

- Technical and functional competencies

- Advanced Logistics and Order to Cash knowledge

- Advanced PPT