R&D, Product Lifecycle & Quality Product Manager

Pernod Ricard SA; Paris; Hybride; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote work up to 2 days

Mutual insurance

Profit sharing

Learning opportunities

Employee events

Résumé du poste

Pernod Ricard is seeking an R&D, Product Lifecycle & Quality Product Manager to steer the mid- to long-term vision for the Product Family, coordinating multiple squads and driving value realization across the organization. You will shape roadmaps, manage EPICs, and translate demands into actionable backlogs in collaboration with business process owners and tech teams.

This role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking and robust stakeholder management, with experience in product

Qualifications

• Deep strategic planning capabilities.
• Strategic thinking & value-driven mindset (roadmap creation, product vision articulation, value monitoring…).
• Experience in Product Management and people management, preferably within a multiple-teams structure.
• Strong communication & stakeholders management skills (customer centricity…).
• Good industry knowledge and insights into key challenges for the domain/family.
• Experience in managing roll-out plan of IT projects/programs/products.
• Understanding of agile mindset & practices.

Responsabilités

• Steer the strategic vision and roadmap for mid/long term within the Product Family.
• Coordinate squads dedicated to the Product Family and realize value.
• Demand management: capture and arbitrate local needs with proximity teams.
• Backlog management: review EPICs, own EPICs, and contribute to portfolio backlog.
• Provide product roadmap, squad resource forecasts, and ROI tracking.
• Drive product lifecycle with framing, editors’ roadmaps, demos and roll-out plans.
• Coordinate resources, engage stakeholders, and ensure arbitration when needed.

Connaissances

Strategic planning

Strategic thinking

Product management

People management

Agile practices

Stakeholder management

Industry knowledge

Roll-out planning

Description du poste

Want to join a fast‑moving company, work among convivial teams, and take part in the global growth strategy of one of the most prestigious and comprehensive portfolios in the wine & spirits industry ? We are looking for a R&D, Product Lifecycle & Quality Product Manager!

What is Expected of You

• The responsibilities encompass steering the strategic vision and roadmap for mid and long term within the Product Family. This includes ensuring comprehensive coordination across multiple squads dedicated to the Product Family, and effective value realization to the business.
• Demand Management : Collect, qualify and assess demands coming from the Global Business Process Owners and the Tech Function itself. Ensure that local needs are effectively captured and arbitrated, in collaboration with proximity teams. Consolidate Business & Tech Product Demand backlogs, analyze and integrate them into the right Squad’s Backlog.
• Backlog Management : Contribute to EPIC demands Review and be appointed as EPIC Owner, perform EPIC Analysis and contribute to Portfolio backlog review, prioritization and arbitration, allocate Features to Product Owners and contribute to their prioritization and integration to Portfolio Synchronization Backlogs.
• ITFM : Provide Product roadmap and backlog, squad’s resource needs forecast, Oversee overall funding of my scope, perform variance analysis and provide justification, Track Product’s ROI and costs.
• Product Lifecycle Management : Drive Product Vision and roadmap through Product Framing Analysis and EPIC/Features definition and prioritization. Work with vendor engagement officers to define editors’ roadmap. Define and track value Product value generation and related investment. Oversee product squads’ activities throughout product lifecycle, providing expertise & securing arbitration. Ensure products demos and roll‑out plans are effective and consistent, and defined in collaboration with the Business and the Proximity teams.
• Resource Management : Coordinate product teams work, animate PO community, secure engagement & collaboration, define squad’s resource needs for my scope, collaborate with tech leaders for resource mobilization and eventually adjust plans and roadmaps based on available resource capacity.

Your Team

Reporting Line (direct/indirect) : Steer and animate Product Owners and Consolidate Product Backlog and report key metrics - value, costs, performance.

Key internal stakeholders

• Product Portfolio Director
• Domain Proximity Lead
• Product Owner
• Resources Lead
• Business Stakeholders

Key external stakeholders

• External Vendors (product selection, implementation, maintenance & support)

Functional Skills

• Deep strategic planning capabilities
• Strategic thinking & value-driven mindset (roadmap creation, product vision articulation, value monitoring…)
• Experience in Product Management and people management, preferably within a multiple-teams structure
• Strong communication & stakeholders management skills (customer centricity…)
• Good industry knowledge and insights into key challenges for the domain/family
• Experience in managing roll‑out plan of IT projects/programs/products
• Understanding of agile mindset & practices

Benefits and Culture

• Outstanding and collaborative workplace that embodies our sharing & conviviality culture
• Possibility to work remotely (up to 2 days a week)
• A very complete mutual insurance
• An attractive compensation including profit‑sharing
• Continuous learning opportunities
• Employee events
• and more.

Pernod Ricard is committed to offering equal opportunities to all talents. Our recruitment methods focus on skills and competencies.

Job Posting End Date: Target Hire Date: 2026-04-22 Target End Date:

About Pernod Ricard

Pernod Ricard is a worldwide leader in the spirits and champagne industry, blending traditional craftsmanship, state‑of‑the‑art brand development, and global distribution technologies. Our prestigious portfolio of premium to luxury brands includes Absolut vodka, Ricard pastis, Ballantine’s, Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, and The Glenlivet Scotch whiskies, Jameson Irish whiskey, Martell cognac, Havana Club rum, Beefeater gin, Malibu liqueur and Mumm and Perrier‑Jouët champagnes. Our mission is to ensure the long‑term growth of our brands with full respect for people and the environment, while empowering our employees around the world to be ambassadors of our purposeful, inclusive and responsible culture of authentic conviviality. Pernod Ricard’s consolidated sales amounted to € 10,959 million in fiscal year FY25. Pernod Ricard is listed on Euronext (Ticker: RI; ISIN Code: FR0000120693) and is part of the CAC 40 index.