R&D, Product Lifecycle & Quality Product Manager

Pernod Ricard; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mutual insurance

Profit-sharing

Continuous learning

Employee events

Remote work up to 2 days/week

Job summary

Pernod Ricard is seeking an R&D, Product Lifecycle & Quality Product Manager to steer the strategic vision and roadmap for mid to long term within the Product Family. You will coordinate across multiple squads, ensuring value realization for the business, while prioritizing EPICs and features with Product Owners, and forecasting resources with vendors.

The role emphasizes governance of product lifecycle, ROI tracking, and collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Deep strategic planning capabilities.
• Experience in Product Management and people management, preferably within a multiple-teams structure.
• Good industry knowledge and insights into key challenges for the domain/family.

Responsibilities

• Demand Management: collect, qualify and assess demands from Global Business Process Owners and the Tech Function; consolidate backlogs.
• Backlog Management: review EPIC demands, own EPICs, allocate features to Product Owners; prioritize portfolios.
• ITFM: provide Product roadmap and backlog, forecast resources, monitor ROI and costs.
• Product Lifecycle Management: drive vision and roadmap; coordinate editors’ roadmap with vendors; track value and investments.
• Resource Management: coordinate product teams, engage PO community, determine squad resource needs.

Skills

Strategic planning

Roadmap & vision

Product management

Agile mindset

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

People management

Job description

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
• 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

Wait, there’s more…

We offer you an outstanding and collaborative workplace that embodies our sharing & conviviality culture, the 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.

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