Title: Digital Supply Chain Product Owner

Job Requisition ID: 311703

Location:

Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA Canada, R3C 4C5

Category: PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Description:

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargill’s agricultural supply chain business. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver essential products.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Digital Supply Chain Product Owner will be responsible for representing the business needs and managing the product backlog to achieve the desired business outcomes. In this role, you will understand customer and business needs, build internal stakeholder commitment, develop deployment roadmaps and partner collaboratively across the organization to jointly develop, launch and govern the product implementation experience, including costs, return on investment, deployment and sustainment, identifying business processes owners and defining the accountability model with the business stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities

Own product strategy and development, from inception to delivery, identifying business value and end user outcomes including key performance indicators and financial return on investment.
Communicate with stakeholders to ensure the goals are clear and the vision is aligned with business objectives, utilizing key performance indicators to show progress.
Create product roadmaps as a high level, strategic visual summary that outlines the vision and direction for the product offering over time, to be used as a strategic guide for stakeholders to reference and as a plan for execution.
Create the product backlog items and prioritize them based on the overall strategy and business objectives and map out project dependencies to inform the necessary sequence of development.
Build working solutions or partner collaboratively with other team members in the Smart, Data & Analytics or DT&D teams to deliver the data and technology projects
Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems. You may provide direction to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor.
Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Clear understanding of agile values, frameworks and metrics
Solid background on data and analytics with proved past experience leading data and technology projects
Experience leading change and communication with a large and diverse group of stakeholders
Experience facilitating teams and breaking down business requirements into deliverables
Minimum of six years of related work experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Project management experience
Agile product owner certification
Supply chain planning and execution experience

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.