Develop and lead the end-to-end product team; set partnership with engineering leadership and define product development and digital strategy
Carry strategic responsibility for performance, efficiency and leadership of product teams; act as Global Head of Product and represent the team to executive leadership
Collaboratively create and foster product vision; drive product strategy, discovery, design, research, and experimentation
Partner with Engineering to set product and development strategy and vision balancing productivity and customer experience
Drive business cases for the Digital Commerce team for AGP and LRP planning
Understand customer needs (internal and external) through quantitative and qualitative data and deliver overwhelming value
Understand competitive landscape and industry trends to shape digital product strategy
Prepare and drive Steering Committee meetings and present to Sysco executives and leadership teams
Represent Digital Commerce across product development activities including engineering, SRE, and data workstreams
Market Digital Commerce products, evangelize product portfolio, meet internal and external customers, source feedback and assess product reception
Lead Continuous Improvement for major components of Digital Commerce and Presence
Lead, drive, and manage product lifecycle from inception to release including Product, UX Design, UX/Competitive Research, Agile Project Management, Product Operations, and Product Enablement
Oversee implementation of product design and development policies, objectives, and initiatives
Prioritize feature development from customer, sales, engineering, market, and competitor input into deliverable features
Lead UX Design and Research to capture voice of the customer and develop insights; develop conceptual designs, POCs, experiments, and design patterns
Lead Agile Project Management ensuring delivery and smooth hand-off from product to engineering; create cross-functional project plans and agile reports
Lead Go-To-Market activities to internal and external customers, close feedback loops, and manage customer and executive communications
Oversee multiple parallel work streams in a fast-paced agile environment and align with business priorities and deadlines
Champion technical and functional development of global teams; coach leaders and individual contributors, recruit, retain and develop product talent
Cultivate positive company culture and manage cross-functional Ways of Working in partnership with engineering
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business administration, information systems or related, or equivalent work experience
10 years’ experience in management role leading a team of product managers
12 years’ experience in product management, business consulting or related field
6 years’ experience in product development
Experience in agile environment
Executive experience in Fortune 100 multinational companies
Proven strong skills in stakeholder management and internal evangelism
Ability to inspire and motivate teams and stakeholders and achieve product adoption
Experience creating communication, training and marketing materials for stakeholders
Domain experience in the food distribution business (Preferred)
Technical software development knowledge encompassing modern cloud technologies such as Kafka, BFF and MFE (Preferred)
Practical experience in applying Design Thinking principles to create enterprise solutions (Preferred)
Experience with global digital platform deployments (Preferred)
Experience in building and managing offshore product management and product design teams (Preferred)
Experience in managing large contractor/consulting engagements for staff augmentation, flexible capacity and fixed bid initiatives (Preferred)
Willingness/ability to travel up to 25%
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States
Benefits
For information on Sysco’s Benefits, please visit https://SyscoBenefits.com
Opportunity to grow personally and professionally
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