Senior Data& Analytics Product Manager APAC VCO

Job Description:

Job summary:

• The Senior D&A Product Manager VCO APAC will manage the vision, roadmap, and delivery of the Value Chain Operations (VCO) Data & Analytics solution portfolio for the APAC region. Starting with key business problems and/or future capability needs, this role will interface with market, regional, and global leaders, as well as functional experts, to build and deploy analytics products that create business value and advance the RC digital agenda.

• Lead the interaction and engagement with the VCO team for RC D&A in APAC. Elevate RC D&A as the thought leader and value driver for delivering the analytical insights required to meet RC APAC's goals.

• Convert Problems into a Product Vision; understand the current process, pain points, user personas, and existing tooling to synthesize Product(s) that address the business need.

• Strategic Change; partner with the Regional Director Data & Analytics and relevant APAC senior stakeholders to manage the roadmap of highest-impact analytical product areas. Ensure this is aligned to global priority areas for the domain.

• Gatekeep all D&A use cases within VCO APAC to ensure they create tangible value whilst aligning to the RC, D&A global and (where relevant) local strategies.

• Architect a backlog of Epics that iteratively addresses the problem using the Agile framework, prioritizing them into Releases.

• Partner with the Delivery & Data functions to scope and advocate for the resources, technologies, and data assets required to deliver each release.

• Oversee a squad of technical resources (associate & 3rd party) who will build and deploy Product releases.

• Continually evaluate solution's ability to solve the problem through adoption and other value creation indicators

• Strategic inquiry to identify the underlying needs of VCO stakeholders for APAC and lead the organization to embrace new methods and technologies.
• Technical breadth to identify and apply art-of-the-possible with data, analytics and AI for VCO. This role must be knowledgeable enough to "lead with problems not tools" in an unbiased way, determining when to evolve a Product's capabilities versus driving scaling as-is.
• Relationship building to partner firmly with leaders in the APAC business, other D&A and Digital Technology members, and with functional experts to define the unique value proposition for each Product. It will also be critical to work closely with end users of the analytics products to ensure a positive experience for them and to deliver on adoption and sustained business value.

• 7-10 years of experience in product management, brand management, or go-to-market strategy within a sales or marketing-driven environment
• Strong understanding of Supply/Value Chain and product management principles; i.e. Agile and Lean methodologies, product lifecycles, backlog management.
• Proven record of facilitating teams to identify problems to solve, ideate solutions, and bringing possibilities to life
• Strength in business-to-science translation, with experience growing partnerships between business and technology teams
• Familiarity with product analytics tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Amplitude), and backlog management software (e.g. Azure DevOps, JIRA, Asana)
• Analytics foundation - knowledgeable in both operations research and the data science domain Experience in delivery management of analytical products, or awareness of the drivers of complexity within delivery

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field
• Preferred: Master's degree (MBA or similar), particularly with a focus on marketing, product management, or strategy
• Preferred: Professional certification in product management (e.g., Pragmatic Institute, AIPMM, or similar)
• Preferred: practitioner experience in supply reporting and planning domain