Principal Product Owner - Data

Principal Product Owner: Data

Function: Global E-business within the Global Commerce department

Location: Amsterdam, Hybrid

Fulltime: 40 hours a week

Closing date: 7 May 2024

About Heineken E-business

Our Global E-business team is about serving our customers better, faster and smarter by strengthening our “Route to Consumer”, understanding our customers deeply through customer-centric approaches and driving this through cross-functional collaboration. We achieve this by taking an omnichannel approach across all touchpoints, including distributors, sales representatives, telesales, and customer care, to serve our customers in a better, faster and smarter way.

What will you do as a Principal Product Owner?

As the key player in driving our digital data vision, you'll take charge of all aspects related to driving data driven growth for Global E-business. You will be thinking customer first and working backwards to drive value across multiple product lines and customer touchpoints. You will shape the long-term strategy for how we build digital products to increase the effectiveness of the product, engineering, analytics, and commerce teams. This includes working cross-functionally with finance, engineering, business units, product teams, and global commerce. Ultimately, this work will be measured in the value delivered across the entire eBusiness organization and potentially revenue generating products within your own domain. Additionally, you will have shape the broader direction of the global product team’s value measurement and reporting & analytics agendas.

If you are data evangelist with a desire to set a vision for how data can drive value and roll-up your sleeves to deliver on that vision, then this is the role for you.

Your roles & responsibilities:

· Drive the vision for overarching eCommerce capabilities around measuring value, product reporting, and data management

· Work backwards from customer use-cases to define the product strategy, requirements, and use cases for the data & analytics capabilities in eCommerce in collaboration with the Global Analytics team

· Conduct market & customer research to stay on-top of the latest trends in eCommerce, data, and analytics

· Collaborate with engineering and analyst teams to prioritize and manage the development roadmap for Heineken’s data platforms and analytical services and tools.

· Develop and implement data governance policies and operational processes to ensure the accuracy, quality, reliability, and accessibility of data.

· Establish and enforce data quality standards, monitoring services, and auditing processes for operational conformance and legal requests in a federated environment.

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for an ambitious professional who has a proven track record in product management, data & analytics, and experience in bringing revenue generating data products to market. A real data enthusiast that is ready to provide deep insights. Additionally, we expect the following qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in a technical field [CS, Engineering, etc.]; MBA preferred

· 10+ years working experience; ideally 7+ in product ownership

· Advanced analytics skills including SQL or Python

· Expertise in large scale data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, value measurement, and analytics tracking

· Experience thinking in customer outcomes, end user experience, and the underlying technology stack to drive those experiences and outcomes

· Strong leadership / communication / influencing skills on different levels

· Experience bringing revenue generating products to market

· Able to connect customer needs to data requirements & focusing on ultimate business value

What’s in it for you – let’s uncork:

· Competitive salary and an excellent pension scheme

· HEINEKEN is an international company with all the related perks: (inter)national career opportunities, ability to go places and diverse projects.

· We focus on developing HEINEKEN and ourselves: knowledge sharing is key and there is dedicated time for professional development through workshops, community sessions, Microsoft/Databricks courses/certifications and learning days.

· HEINEKEN embraces a hybrid working environment moving forward, with flexibility to define how often you are in the office.

· Covered commuting expenses.

· Awesome social events! :)

Ready to join our team?

Please apply via the green application button. For questions about the recruitment process please contact Leonie Reuvers (Talent Acquisition Business Partner): leonie.reuvers@heineken.com. Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so don’t delay!