Agile Business Product Owner

Agile Business Product Owner page is loaded Agile Business Product Owner Apply locations Argentina-Buenos Aires Brazil -Sao Paulo time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id 868927 Agile Business Product OwnerJob DescriptionYour Job You're not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we're out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you'll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In your role, you'll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.
About Us Huggies. Kleenex. Cottonelle. Scott. Kotex. Poise. Depend. Kimberly-Clark Professional. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn't exist without talented professionals, like you.
At Kimberly-Clark, you'll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We're founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we're always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there's your open door of opportunity. It's all here for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to log on!
Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
About You You're driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we're constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you'll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.
Main responsibilities: 1. Work closely with Product Managers and stakeholders to define and own product backlog according to the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Ensure that the product backlog items solve business problems identified by the Product Manager and stakeholders.
2. Accountable for Product Backlog Management by creating and clearly communicating product backlog items with stakeholders, product managers and Scrum team (including engineering manager); routinely refining and prioritizing the product backlog items balancing product development, BAU-'Business As Usual', engineering work, and bug remediation while delivering product value. Maintain a healthy and transparent product backlog to ensure that the scrum team has adequate visibility and understanding of upcoming work.
3. Create and maintain effective release plans based on the delivery team's available capacity. Set release goals, in coordination with the Product Manager and the delivery team, and provides support to the delivery team so that they can deliver on their commitments. Collaborate with the Scrum team to identify the dependencies of product backlog items on other teams and coordinate with those teams to align on release plans, dependencies, and on the timeline to resolve these.
4. Continuously refine Product Backlog Items together with the Scrum Team and other subject matter experts to ensure the team understands those items to the level needed for them to estimate and plan to work during sprint planning.
5. Clearly define priorities for the scrum team and craft the sprint goal together with them.
6. Provide support to the scrum team while they deliver on the promised value. Actively work to address impediments to improve the team's flow of work during sprint execution.
7. Work with the scrum team to document and ensure quality of work meets standards of excellence (Acceptance criteria and Definition Of Done). Review sprint backlog items and provide feedback about them to the scrum team. Actively participate in agile events to represent the stakeholder needs to the team.
8. Coordinate people (or any other resources) as needed for planning and execution of Product Backlog Items. This may entail working with people from across the organization, from business leaders, Product Managers, engineers, UX, testing, dev ops, legal, training, technical writing, marketing, and support personnel, and others as needed.
9. Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Partners, Delivery Managers, and Stakeholders to plan Sprint Reviews, user acceptance testing and rollout/launch of the release/product.
10. Own communication to Product Manager and stakeholders regarding product progress and value delivery
Influence
This role will interact with multiple Business stakeholders, IT Leaders, and delivery team(s) in producing a quality and functional product for Business engagement. Ultimately, the Agile Product Owner must be a problem solver and collaborator that helps drive a solution and keeps a team on track of a planned roadmap.
Experience and requirements: Mandatory Bachelor's degree, ideally in IT/CS or a business discipline
7+ years' total experience in Software Industry
At least 2+ years' experience as a Product Owner OR at least 4+ years as a Senior Business Analyst in an agile or product development environment
Available for minimal travel (5-10%)
Established background in launching software/solutions or services in partnership with business and engineering teams.
Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery of highly innovative products, including a wide variety of mechanisms (e.g., digital core, dashboards, APIs, cloud, e-commerce, real-time alerts, artificial intelligence )
Experience of proficiency in wireframes, prototyping, iterative development, understanding of agile principles.
Proven success working with self-managed, virtual team members.
Strong Virtual meeting facilitation, interpersonal communication, training, negotiation, and presentation skills.
Ability to inspire a team to act as a small business jointly accountable for its product.
Outstanding organizational, communication, relationship-building, and collaboration skills at all levels
Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills, prioritization, and time management skills
Experience in risk management and the ability to identify and mitigate potential risks to the product and the team.
Proven experience as a change agent to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders at multiple levels of a global organization.
Desirable Desirable Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or PSPO - Professional Scrum Product Owner with Sufficient level of domain knowledge around the product
Prior experience working for a global, highly matrixed, Consumer Packaged Goods company, preferably in the Sales and RGM domains.
Knowledge of the CPG market, industry trends, and customer needs to help inform the product vision and roadmap.
Understanding of Nielsen data for a broad spectrum of uses (UPC analytics, Market share, panel analysis, etc.)
Experience creating automated data quality management rules.
Familiarity with uncovering and championing high-value use cases for data.
Understanding of cloud data lakes and data warehouse systems (systems and data)
Familiarity with MS Power BI for Business reporting and Self-service
Total Benefits Here are just a few of the benefits you'd enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.
Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.
Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.
Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.
Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.
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For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.
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This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role's country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role
Primary LocationArgentina-Buenos AiresAdditional LocationsSao Paulo OfficeWorker TypeEmployeeWorker Sub-TypeRegularTime TypeFull time
About UsFueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people's most essential needs, we're working to find new ways to make a positive impact on the world we share. Kimberly-Clark and its trusted brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Intimus, Neve, Plenitud, Sweety, Softex, Viva and WypAll, are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries by helping individuals experience more of what's important to them. We use sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, build stronger communities, and ensure our business thrives for decades to come. To learn more about the company's 150-year history of innovation, visit kimberly-clark.com.
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