Product Owner Data Insights and Serving

Digital & Technology Team (D&T) is an integral division of HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center. We are committed to making Heineken the most connected brewery. That includes digitalizing and integrating our processes, ensuring best-in-class technology, and embedding a data-driven culture. By joining us you will work in one of the most dynamic and innovative teams and have a direct impact on building the future of Heineken!

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This role is a part of the Data Management Department, Digital & Technology Global Team (D&T) of HEINEKEN International.
Its purpose is to define and drive the vision and strategy for the organization's Data Insights and Serving product. The product owner is accountable and responsible for defining feature roadmap and making sure this is connected to the epics and outcomes (impact & value).

The Product Owner of Data Insights and Serving is responsible for the strategic direction, development, and delivery of data products focused on providing actionable insights. The primary responsibility is to ensure data is easily discoverable and accessible by organizing and structuring it in a data catalog and marketplace. This includes developing a system where internal teams can quickly find data sets that are categorized, documented, and made available for use. This role bridges the gap between business stakeholders, data teams, and technology, ensuring that data insights and services align with business needs and create value.

Your responsibilities would include:

• defining and delivering business value e2e: creating Product’s vision, owing the product, ensuring that the product evolves in alignment with business goals and data management strategies
• contract management: collaborating with technology vendors and 3rd party partners on their technology roadmaps to meet future demand and optimize the service delivery
• representing “the voice of the customer” and striving to understand and reflect it in product roadmap and design
• stakeholders’ connection: engaging with key business stakeholders (e.g. data analysts, solution architects, business units) to gather and define requirements for the data dictionary
• managing expectations and providing regular updates on progress
• owning and managing Product Backlog: reflects requirements in User Stories prioritizes features and ensures successful execution of data dictionary-related initiatives
• service delivery: ensuring the delivered solution is consistent with the requirements, verifies the product increment against the plan and oversees the quality of implementation
• working closely with the Product Team, Chapter Lead and Scrum master to ensure alignment on priorities, processes, and resource allocation
• working closely with the relevant Architects to ensure alignment on solution development, scalability, robustness and security that is within the right architectural guidance
• maintaining awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends and best practices and evaluating them for applicability
• owning the end-to-end budget for the product, e.g. resources, investment, consultancy and technology.

You are a good candidate if you have:

• Bachelor/master's degree in Computer Science or similiar
• 10 years of relevant in the data related field
• proven experience in product management or product ownership, particularly in the context of data analytics, business intelligence (BI), or similar data-driven solutions
• deep understanding of data insights products (e.g., dashboards, reports, data visualization) and the lifecycle of delivering these products to end-users
• strong experience in managing product backlogs, defining requirements
• experience working with Agile teams
• excellent analytical skills: ability to identify opportunities, assess needs, and define solutions that meet business goals
• strong problem-solving focus, balancing short-term needs with long-term strategic objectives
• ability to think critically and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment
• proven ability to connect and develop the right stakeholder network to ensure requirements and product development delivers the right business value
• strong understanding of data analytics, business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Qlik), and data visualization techniques to transform raw data into actionable insights
• ability to manage and liaise various groups of stakeholders.

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