Data & Analytics Associate Product Manager, North America

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates; Guelph; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global food company is seeking a Data & Analytics Associate Product Manager in Guelph, Ontario. You will manage the Data and Analytics roadmap for manufacturing and finance solutions, collaborating with stakeholders to deliver valuable insights. Candidates should have a bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience, with strong analytical and product management skills. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits, including a company bonus.

Benefits

Industry competitive salary

Benefits package

Company bonus

Access to in-house Mars University

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in Manufacturing, Fulfillment, Procurement, or Finance operations or product management.
• Proven record of facilitating teams to identify problems to solve.
• Experience growing partnerships between business and technology teams.
• Analytics foundation – knowledgeable in operations research and data science.

Responsibilities

• Act as a D&A contact for stakeholders across the Royal Canin North America VCO and Finance teams.
• Convert problems into a Product Vision.
• Work with Senior Product Managers to manage the roadmap of analytical product areas.
• Ensure D&A use cases create tangible value aligned to strategies.

Skills

Manufacturing operations

Fulfillment operations

Procurement

Finance operations

Product management principles

Agile methodologies

Analytical Problem Solving

Product Management Fundamentals

Fluent English

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field

Tools

Mixpanel

Amplitude

Azure DevOps

JIRA

Asana

Job description

Job Description:

The Data & Analytics Associate Product Manager, North America will manage Data and Analytics roadmap delivery for the Value Chain Operations (VCO: Manufacturing, Fulfillment, and Procurement) solution portfolio and the Finance solution portfolio in the North America region. Starting with key business problems and/or future capability needs, this role will interface with market, regional, and global stakeholders, as well as functional experts, to build and deploy analytics products that create business value and advance the Royal Canin digital agenda.

What are we looking for?

• 3-5 years of experience inManufacturing, Fulfillment, Procurement,or Finance operations or product management

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field

• Understanding of 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

• Highly Preferred: Practical experience in a factory environment, in logistics and inventory management, or in financial planning & analysis

• Preferred: Professional certification in product management (e.g., Pragmatic Institute, AIPMM, or similar)

• Experience in delivery management of analytical products, or awareness of the drivers of complexity within delivery

• Fluent in English

• Analytical Problem Solving

• Product Management Fundamentals

• Preferred: Ability to travel up to 25%

This role requires a balance of:

• Strategic inquiry to identify the underlying needs of VCO and Finance stakeholders and influence the organization to embrace new methods and technologies.

• Technical curiosity to identify and apply art-of-the-possible with data, analytics and AI for VCO and Finance. This role must focus on “problems not tools” in an unbiased way, helping to determine when to evolve a Product’s capabilities versus driving scaling as-is.

• Relationship building to partner effectively with customers and experts in Manufacturing, Fulfillment, and Procurement, and Finance, with other D&A and Digital Technology members, and with end users to ensure products deliver on adoption and sustained business value.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Act as a D&A contact for stakeholders across the Royal Canin North America VCO and Finance teams. Help position Royal Canin D&A as the value driver for delivering the analytical insights required to meetVCO and Finance 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.

• Work with the Senior Product Manager(s) to manage the roadmap of highest-impact analytical product areas.

• Help quality control all D&A use cases within VCO and Finance to ensure they create tangible value whilst aligning to the Royal Canin global, regional, and local strategies.

• Manage a backlog of Epics that iteratively addresses the problem using the Agile framework, prioritizing them into Releases (either individually or as part of a team).

• Partner with the Delivery & Data functions within D&A to scope and advocate for the resources, technologies, and data assets required to deliver each release. Ensure this is aligned to stakeholder and regional priorities.

• Coordinate the activities of 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

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with 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.

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