Senior Data Product Manager

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of categoryleading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

About The Role This is an exciting opportunity to join and support Haleon in its journey to becoming a more data-driven organization. As part of the Data Innovation Team, Data Product Owners will work in partnership with Technology and the business to bring to life data-driven user stories. They will then work act as the conduit between the agile delivery teams and the business to ensure precious resources are correctly utilised. This includes attending the agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, backlog refinement and retrospectives.

This role is ideal for a person with a passion for bringing structure and collaborating with a range of business and technical stakeholders to rapidly deliver real value to the business, our customers, and consumers. Applicants should be experienced in working in an agile methodology with teams and stakeholders across a global environment. In addition, a strong business analysis skill set is required to be able to identify and assess value to priorities delivery in line with the business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate a clear product vision, strategy, and roadmap for data products that align with the company's overall goals and market trends.

• Develop close working partnerships with the senior stakeholders from within the dedicated area of business, fostering a product led mindset within the leadership teams.

• Ensure all aspects of the Data Delivery lifecycle are considered when formulating a delivery plan, executing against Data Strategy principles. This includes everything from BI, Data Sciences, Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Platforms and Data Architecture.

• Relentless focus on Value generation through strategic and tactical use cases for the business working closely with the finance teams to correctly attribute value that the initiatives will deliver. Metrics and Analytics: Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of data products, making data-driven decisions to optimize product performance.

• Stakeholder Communication: Act as a bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders, providing regular updates on product progress, changes, and upcoming features.

• Drive and foster a strong delivery mindset and culture within the agile product teams, supporting the rapid delivery of business value through a test and learn approach. This includes attending a selection of key agile ceremonies, particularly business ‘show and tells’.

Essential Qualifications & Skills

• 8+ years of experience as Data Product Owner/Manager or similar roles in a product led environment within R&D, QSC, Customer, Consumer, Finance, HR etc.

• Experience in working on data platforms, data analytics, AI/ML technologies, governance & compliance, ETL, data pipelines, data modelling.

• Data Product Ownership. This means having data product life cycle ownership managing a product backlog, prioritization that iteratively delivers features articulating business value & delivering outcomes.

• Product management skills, including interpersonal skills, research, communications (esp. listening), demonstrated influence, and the ability to have crucial and difficult conversations & collaborate with cross functional teams to deliver business outcomes.

• Demonstrated the ability to act as a strategic partner with senior leaders (e.g. Country or Divisional leads) from the dedicated areas of the business, understanding their priorities and identifying the needs / value for data products.

• Experience in value attribution and articulation against initiatives and use cases.

• Experience working and delivering through an agile methodology to deliver rapid value to business stakeholders & prioritising a product backlog based on a variety on inputs, including business need, architectural complexity, skills availability.

• Strong Data Analytics skills to support and enable technical teams.

Preferred

• A knowledge of the FMCG industry and external perspective on challenges and innovation opportunities.

• Significant experience successfully delivering complex projects to a high standard and within short timeframes. Desirable recent examples of delivery of data or technology products/projects.

• Desirable experience working with key product artefacts to support user research, articulate and assess value including, User Personas, User Journeys, Leading and Lagging Metrics, and calculating the Cost of Delay.

• Experience presenting business cases for funding approval

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are. As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary.

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
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