Location
Leicestershire | United Kingdom
Job description
Job Description:
The Waltham Petcare Science Institute provides the word-class science behind the MARS Petcare brands. Our work at WALTHAM covers diverse topics in pet nutrition, health, and wellbeing and is achieved through designed experiments and real-world data. The role of the Product Owner will be to deliver projects in collaboration with our IT partners and internal stakeholders that will transform our product landscape and provide an infrastructure that supports our Petcare strategy of creating a better world for pets.
What are we looking for?
An experienced product owner, managing the delivery of data products and systems that meet business needs:
- Degree in an IT subject.
- Comprehensive understanding of modern enterprise IT practices, especially system and product integration, micro-services, data management and data lakes.
- Strong project management skills (both agile and waterfall approaches) and experience of effective stakeholder management
- Experience of product lifecycle management principles and tools (e.g. DevOps) and relational database manipulation and interrogation.
- Experience in R&D environment is desirable.
What will be your key responsibilities?
As a member of the WALTHAM data systems team, you will:
- Own multiple strategic data systems or products that supports our business operations and science, providing clear documentation on specifications and having a deep understanding of each solution at the data, technical and business process levels.
- Delivery of product or system build and continuous improvement projects whilst working with a range of stakeholders, ensuring clarification of business needs, timely implementation and high-quality change management.
- Responsible for ensuring that high quality data is presented from the products to our researchers, and the data dictionaries maintained in the data catalogue.
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
#LI-SS1
Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
Job tags
Salary
