Digital Product Owner - Commercial Planning

New Balance; Boston (MA); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

New Balance is seeking a Digital Product Owner to lead Commercial Planning technology products. You will own the product roadmap for Demand and Inventory Planning, partnering with planning leaders, engineering, and external partners to deliver value and improve planner productivity and data integrity.

You will define success metrics, translate business problems into epics, and drive end-to-end product delivery—from discovery through release and optimization.

Formación

• 5+ years in Product Owner, Product Manager, or related technology roles.
• Experience with Planning, Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Demand Planning, or Retail processes preferred.
• Experience with enterprise planning platforms such as o9, Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, SAP IBP, Anaplan, or similar.
• Experience with ERP systems, data integrations, and reporting platforms preferred.
• Strong product management mindset with ability to define vision, strategy, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into actionable product requirements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach.
• Strong understanding of Agile, backlog management, and iterative delivery.
• Ability to influence across cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Engineering, CS, or related field.
• MBA or Product Management certification is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Own and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Commercial Planning capabilities.
• Align priorities to business objectives and enterprise technology strategy.
• Define success metrics and KPIs for product investments.
• Translate problems into epics, features, user stories, and backlog items.
• Lead end-to-end lifecycle from discovery to value realization.
• Collaborate with engineering to evaluate solutions, scalability, and risks.
• Prioritize work across enhancements, defects, and data quality initiatives.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business teams and technology teams.
• Facilitate requirements gathering, design reviews, backlog refinement, and sprint planning.
• Maintain a healthy backlog aligned with strategic objectives.
• Ensure clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and business context.
• Participate in planning, reviews, and governance forums.

Conocimientos

Product ownership

Roadmapping

Stakeholder management

Agile

Backlog management

Data-driven decisions

Educación

Bachelor's degree

MBA

PM Certification

Agile Certification

Herramientas

o9

Blue Yonder

Kinaxis

SAP IBP

Anaplan

Descripción del empleo

New Balance is seeking a highly motivated and strategic Digital Product Owner to lead our Commercial Planning technology products and capabilities. This individual will play a critical role in driving the evolution of our Demand Planning and Inventory Planning ecosystem, ensuring that technology investments deliver measurable business value while enabling reliable, scalable, and efficient planning processes.

The Product Owner will partner closely with global planning leaders, business stakeholders, engineering teams, architects, and external partners to define product strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver technology solutions that improve planner productivity, data integrity, operational stability, and decision-making. This role will own the product roadmap and backlog for Commercial Planning capabilities and drive outcomes from concept through implementation and value realization.

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Own and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Commercial Planning capabilities.
• Align product priorities to business objectives, planning outcomes, and enterprise technology strategy.
• Define success metrics, business outcomes, and KPIs for product investments and continuously evaluate value realization.

Product Delivery

• Translate business problems into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlog items.
• Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery and design through development, testing, release, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with engineering teams to evaluate solution alternatives, technical tradeoffs, scalability considerations, and implementation risks.
• Prioritize work across enhancements, defects, technical debt, data quality initiatives, and operational stability efforts.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Serve as the primary liaison between Commercial Planning business teams and technology teams.
• Facilitate requirements gathering, discovery sessions, design reviews, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release readiness activities.
• Develop trusted partnerships with planning leadership, product management, engineering, enterprise architecture, data teams, and external vendors.
• Communicate roadmap progress, deployment plans, risks, dependencies, and business impacts to stakeholders at all levels.

Stability, Quality & Data Integrity

• Drive product improvements that increase platform reliability, user trust, and planning process effectiveness.
• Identify recurring incidents, manual workarounds, data quality concerns, and process inefficiencies, and convert them into prioritized product investments.
• Establish strong testing, validation, monitoring, and release management practices.
• Partner with teams across the technology ecosystem to improve data quality, integration reliability, and operational performance.
• Maintain a healthy and prioritized product backlog aligned to strategic objectives.
• Work closely with delivery teams to ensure clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and business context.
• Participate in sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and roadmap governance forums.
• Ensure delivered solutions are measurable, usable, scalable, and aligned to business needs.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESS:

• 5+ years of Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Systems, Supply Chain, Planning Systems, or related technology experience.
• Experience working with Planning, Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Demand Planning, Merchandising, Wholesale, Retail, or Consumer Products processes preferred.
• Experience with enterprise planning platforms such as o9, Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, SAP IBP, Anaplan, or similar solutions preferred.
• Experience with ERP systems, data integrations, master data, reporting platforms, and enterprise applications preferred.
• Strong product management mindset with the ability to define vision, strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into actionable product requirements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decision making.
• Strong understanding of Agile principles, backlog management, and iterative product delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to balance competing priorities and make effective business and technology tradeoff decisions.
• Excellent facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
• Ability to influence without direct authority across cross-functional teams.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and leading organizational change.
• Collaborative leader who builds trust and drives alignment across business and technology teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• MBA, Product Management certification, Agile certification, or equivalent experience is a plus.