Product Owner for Marketing

Sonepar

Paris

Hybrid

EUR 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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75% reimbursement of transport pass

Swile Ticket restaurant card

Gym access for employees

Sustainable mobility package

Health insurance & Welfare

Employee Savings Plan & Profit Sharing

Job summary

Sonepar is seeking an experienced Product Owner to lead an agile team focused on CRM platform enhancements and marketing automation in a multinational, hybrid-enabled environment. You will translate roadmap features into detailed user stories, manage backlogs, and collaborate with architects, developers, QE, and product managers to deliver value.

You will report to the Lead Director of the Spark Associate domain in Paris, driving backlog clarity, acceptance criteria, and continuous improvement

Qualifications

At least 8 years of experience as a Product Owner of an Agile feature team in multinational projects.
Experience implementing a CRM platform based on Microsoft Dynamics in a multinational environment.
Nice to have experience in Marketing Automation within a retail context.
Nice to have experience with SAFe, Program Increment and Sprint timeframes.

Responsibilities

Translate business features into user stories and acceptance criteria.
Prioritize and manage the backlog for the assigned feature domain.
Collaborate with architects, developers, testers and UX/UI designers across teams.
Validate developments with QE profiles and ensure proper testing and automation.
Understand and communicate business and IT processes into clear deliverables.
Refine and organize features with the Product Manager and stakeholders.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile frameworks

Stakeholder management

Remote collaboration

Leadership

Negotiation

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Marketing Automation tools

Job description

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Sonepar is an independent family-owned company standing as the world leader in B-to-B distribution of electrical equipment, solutions, and services. In 2025, Sonepar achieved sales of €33.6 billion. Present in 40 countries with a dense network of brands, the Group is leading an ambitious transformation to make its customers’ lives easier providing them with an omnichannel experience and sustainable solutions in the building, industry, and energy markets.

Sonepar’s 46 000 associates are committed to accelerating the world’s electrification and driven by a shared Purpose: Powering Progress for Future Generations.

As a Product Owner, you will coordinate the assigned team with the goal to provide Sonepar Associates with the needed information and capabilities required for their daily tasks. You will translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria. Working under the agile framework, you will prioritize and maintains the sprint backlog for the assigned product domain, balancing the requirements of stakeholders, and you will collaborate with several entities, including architects, developers, testers and UX-UI designers, also from other teams.

You will help the Scrum Master of the team to manage the product development team as a leader, increasing its efficiency and providing motivation and guidance for process improvement.

Your workspace? A digital factory bustling with over 300 top-tier professionals all over the world, from different companies, you’ll directly report to our Lead Director of the Spark Associate domain.

What success looks like

Backlog management and prioritization

Ability to translate and split business features into user stories (requirements),
Ability to analyze user stories to understand all potential impacts, anticipating also performance and UX/UI concern
Responsible of user stories stock that are ready for development (DOR: definition of ready).
Ability to understand & formalize business & IT processes into specific deliverables,
Ability to prioritize user stories and to communicate clearly these priorities and related tasks to the members of the assigned feature team
Ability to validate what developed by the feature team and to engage with Quality Engineer (QE) profiles – both functional and automation - to guarantee that they properly test what built by developers

Knowledge of the current system capabilities

Ability to propose solutions to deliver features with minimum development/effort,
Ability to assess complexity of development during the refinement of user story
Ability to discuss technical details with architects
Ability to translate a vision into specific deliverables.
Ensure backlog remain a tool and not a burden
Help Product Managers to organize features, split them into user stories, and ensure a complete description of the solution.
Refine continuously the backlog of user stories
Prioritize the activities with Product Manager,
Write proper acceptance criteria to guide validation tests and foster QA automation scripting

Expertise in the Business domain

Understand & know the specific business domain
Ability to share the understanding of the business domain impacted,
Identify who are the stakeholders impacted and involved in the effort,
Ability to know the policies and rules that guide business behaviors,
Critical thinking to challenge process / rules / policy,
Ability to understand UX/UI front guidelines.

The experience you bring

At least 8 years of experience as a Product Owner of an Agile feature team, preferably in a multinational project with several Agile teams working mainly on remote
Previous experience in implementing a CRM platform based on Microsoft Dynamics in a multinational environment, managing developers, quality engineers and profiles from different locations and companies
(Nice to have) Previous experience in projects related to Marketing Automation functional domain, preferable in a retail company
(Nice to have) Previous experience in projects applying SAFE methodology, in particular working in Program Increment and Sprint timeframe
Important soft-skills capabilities:
- resiliency,
- ownership of assigned activities,
- leadership attitude and “can do” mindset, as the profile needs to manage/coordinate a team of around 10 profiles from different partners, mainly working on remote
- negotiation skills, for discussing with business stakeholders about delivery priorities and for finding compromises
- precision and proper attention to details
- passion for what the team aims to accomplish,
- transparency and proactive mindset
- communication skills and ability to engage with stakeholders at different levels, from members of the assigned team to members of other agile teams, architects, QE profiles, Product managers, management