Digital Product Owner - Analytics

Job Description

M ake your mark at the world’s largest HVAC company

Daikin Applied is seeking a long term temporary Digital Product Owner. This role will be focused on products or platforms delivering digitized solutions as a service in the Quality, Cost, Delivery (QCD)Organization. They will own the business strategy and establish a vision for the Visibility product to improve identified opportunities within the assigned function through an iterative approach. This individual will collaborate with cross-functional teams and identify industry best practices to develop a product roadmap and prioritize with specific scope to build and deliver features and improve processes.

Location: Plymouth, MN, Hybrid

What you will do:

• Provide strategic ownership of the data systems and processes supporting the QCD with the intent to evaluate and recommend analytical solutions to improve efficiency, reduce cost, and leverage progressive technologies to drive synergies across the Integrated Supply Chain and the broader organization.
• Provide full-cycle project management of cross-functional teams to implement system improvements including developing documentation of all processes and delivering training, as needed.
• Meet and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to establish project scopes, system goals, and requirements, track project milestones.
• Partner with IT department to represent the systems needs of the Integrated Supply Chain and implement best practices for scalability, supportability, ease of maintenance, and system performance
• Gather data, assess trends, identify gaps, use imperfect data to draw reasonable conclusions, and assemble a set of recommendations supported by numerical facts to develop a business case to garner executive support and provide ongoing communication to key business leaders
• Develop detailed spend and category analyses to identify areas of opportunity within a diverse set of spend categories
• Quantify the financial and operational impacts of the identified opportunities and build a business case to justify the investment in proceeding with the project.
• Analyze market trends in the different sector indices to analyze strategic planning for long-range stability of cost and services

What’s in it for you:

• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems , Supply Chain, Economics or similar
• Five years of experience with end-to-end supply chain analytics (Inventory, Planning, Logistics, OM, MFG, etc.)
• Five years of experience with Microsoft Technologies, Data Analytics (Power BI, SQL, MS SQL)
• Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Agile Product Owner or Manager is a plus (CSPO)
• Expertise in Project Management (Agile/Waterfall)
• Experience managing Supply Chain or Procurement functions
• More than five years of experience with the following: AZURE, Python, Power BI, Tableau, and MS Office