Data Product Owner - Sensory & Consumer Preference

Position Snapshot

• Location: Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona (Spain)
• Company: Nestlé Global Services Spain
• Stream: IT R&D
• Type of Contract: Permanent 
• Type of work: Hybrid
• Work Language: Fluent Business English

The role: 

As a Data Product Owner you will be working closely with IT and the R&D function, internal & external development teams and functions to specify, plan, design and develop, deploy and sustain high-performing Sensory and Consumer Preference data product at scale, in order to accelerate the go-to-market of our Nestlé products.

Sensory and Consumer Preference data product is fully embedded in the R&D Digital Transformation strategy and relies on and contributes to the R&D innovation unified cross-functional data asset.

As an IT Data Product Owner, your responsibility will be to ensure adequate build, sustain and evolve of the data models and flows within your scope, ensuring data governance.

What you’ll do: 

As Product Owner, your responsibilities will be: 

• Engage with Product Managers, Project Managers and Architects of IT R&D for understanding the data and analytics needs of Sensory and Consumer Preference teams within all Nestlé group.
• Partner with R&D function to understand, analyze, translate, and document business requirements, pain points or opportunities.
• Work with external partners, to design and build data and analytics products that deliver business value as efficiently as possible. You will deliver data models using a range of On-premise and Cloud toolsets, new generation analytics platforms such as Azure, Snowflake, and PowerBI.
• Create data and analytics products to support both standard reporting and more advanced analytics and machine learning use cases.
• Work with external and internal colleagues to ensure training materials for the product area are documented, as well as oversee the handover to deployment and sustain teams.
• Support the development and curation of data products in the data catalogue.
• Support Product Managers/ Product Group Managers through the full product lifecycle from new product imitation through to product retirement.

We offer you: 

We offer more than just a job. We put people first and inspire you to become the best version of yourself.

• Great benefits including competitive salary and a comprehensive social benefits package. We have one of the most competitive pension plans on the market, as well as flexible remuneration with tax advantages: health insurance, restaurant card, mobility plan, etc.
• Personal and professional growth through ongoing training and constant career opportunities reflecting our conviction that people are our most important asset.
• Hybrid working environment with flexible working scheme. Our state-of-the-art campus is dog friendly and equipped with a medical center, canteen and areas to co-create network and chill!
• Recreation activities such as yoga, Zumba, etc. and a wide range of volunteering activities.

Minimum qualifications:

• Academical background: ideally Computer Science degree or Data related.
• +8 years’ of experience in building data assets and pipelines to serve analytics use cases.
• Previous developer background and technical understanding (data foundations and architecture standards) will be very valuable.
• Experience with JIRA, Azure DevOps and Service Now Application portfolio management and be used to work with agile methodologies.
• Proven skills of taking ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills at different levels within the organization and external partners in a global and online environment.
• Data-driven decision making, ensuring accuracy and reliability of the data used for taking decisions.
• Fluent in English both written and spoken. 

About the IT Hub 

We are a team of IT professionals from many countries and diverse backgrounds, each with unique missions and challenges in the biggest health, nutrition and wellness company of the world. We innovate every day through forward-looking technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé’s digital challenges with our consumers, customers and at the workplace. We collaborate with our business partners around the world to deliver standardized, integrated technology products and services to create tangible business value.

About Nestlé 

We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company. We are 308,000 employees strong driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Our values are rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for our future. With more than CHF 91.4 billion sales in 2018, we have an expansive presence with 413 factories in more than 85 countries. Want to learn more? Visit us at www.nestle.com.

We encourage the diversity of applicants across gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief and disability.
Step outside your comfort zone; share your ideas, way of thinking and working to make a difference to the world, every single day. You own a piece of the action – make it count. 

Join IT Hub Nestlé #beaforceforgood

How we will proceed:

You send us your CV → We contact relevant applicants → Interviews → Feedback →   Job Offer communication to the Finalist → First working day