Product Manager - Cincinnati, United States - Flexton
Description
Title: Product Manager - Food Safety and Traceability
Location: Cincinnati, OH, Hybrid Role)
Duration: 6+ Months
Client: Kroger
Pay Rate - $70/HR - $75/HR on W2
It is a Federal Mandate that all food that is consumed in the US has to have a trackability back to the origin. This mandate is getting more stringent- ex: raw materials from a farm, repackaging/relabeling, lot number, expiration date. consistency with the labelling.
This is a new project
All legacy of them) systems need to be updated by 2025. The risk is that the legacy systems might have issues 31 different ways, so this person will go out to the plants and find out how they trace now (excel spreadsheet, data base, etc.) This person needs understanding of the law, might work with legal, will work with food safety team.
Product management experience is important, but not required
Top 3 skills -Ideal candidate will have experience in food safety and traceability. Nice to have food manufacturing or food science experience.
Soft Skills Needed -Attention to detail, good critical thinking skills
Job Description
Own and drive a product from vision, through design, to requirements, and finally delivery. Facilitate within a larger cross-functional team to solve business problems.
Work with significant autonomy and freedom, requiring little oversight. This autonomy, however, will be within a broader strategy set by a Senior Product Manager and / or Group Product Manager
Demonstrate the company s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.
Identify product requirements and future enhancements through collaborative engagements to support product strategies
Create, maintain and communicate product catalog roadmaps, including near-term delivery and 1-2 year product evolution, to engage stakeholders across the organization in aligning and supporting company and business unit strategies
Create highly collaborative cross-functional partnerships across the Kroger matrix organization
Identify, measure and improve key product catalog metrics to enhance the customer / user experience, and create a compelling, relevant product vision using web metrics, customer / user loyalty / insights, customer / user feedback / research and internal operational metrics
Identify opportunities to create best-in-class capabilities by leveraging customer & user feedback and team knowledge / expertise in order to connect company strengths with available resources
Develop a product plan and deliver breakthrough experiences to market by working with technical and non-technical partners;
Model Agile principles by maintaining a groomed backlog and providing 1-N prioritization for backlog
Set criteria for Minimum Viable Product to increase the speed / frequency with which enhancements and new capabilities are delivered
Travel to work locations to attend company meetings
Travel to interview / observe the users and / or customers
Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
Minimum
3+ years of software development, product management or business analyst experience in an technology business with demonstrated success in sales and / or customer use through the delivery of new / evolving products
3+ years of experience bringing customer-facing technology products to market
Excellent oral / written communication skills and extreme attention-to-detail
Ability to identify metrics / key performance measures and use data to drive decisions that enhance the customer & user experience
Proficient Microsoft Office skills
Demonstrated leadership experience in product management
Desired
Any experience with iterative product development (Agile)
Any product management experience with a multi-channel retailer
Any experience using Atlassian products groomed backlog and providing 1-N prioritization for backlog
Set criteria for Minimum Viable Product to increase the speed / frequency with which enhancements and new capabilities are delivered
Travel to work locations to attend company meetings
Travel to interview / observe the users and / or customers
Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation