Finance IT Product Owner

at  Musgrave

HYBRID - CORK, DUBLIN, BELFAST

Musgrave is one of the Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses with a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation, supporting communities across the island of Ireland and Spain. Every day we feed one-in-three people in Ireland through 11 market leading food and beverage brands that include SuperValu, Centra, Frank and Honest and Musgrave Market Place. We support thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses who live and work in the heart of the communities they serve. We are committed to becoming the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland and we are making changes across the company to make sure that happens. We want to make a positive impact on the world, and we will support our suppliers and customers to make a difference too. We are seeking an IT Product Owner with drive & commitment to work in our fast-paced, dynamic, customer-focused environment.
Role Purpose:
As an IT Product Owner, you are an innovator, a problem solver, a questioner, a listener, and someone who understands that both stability and progress is key. You work closely with your stakeholders and vendors to deliver and drive best-in-class customer experiences. You know what others are doing outside our business and you bring ideas to the table of stakeholders as well as your team and you mentor your team to deliver these solutions through 3rd parties.
We are looking for you to join the wider Corporate Functions IT team where we deliver and manage all the systems and applications that are used in Finance and HR across all brands. With the vast systems estate and our never-ending ambition to deliver value for our corporate colleagues, we are always spinning up new projects and delivering at high pace. We have a broad group of stakeholders who we work closely with to ensure we deliver value and prioritise correctly.

Your activities in this role will include the following:

• Managing a team of Business Analysts/Technical Analysts
• Vendor management and contract negotiation
• Identification of vendors and delivery partners
• Service delivery and QA
• Working closely with stakeholders to decide and prioritise projects and activities including innovation
• Roadmap of product(s) including upgrades and patching
• Budget planning and tracking
• Delivery of projects
• Ensuring all designs conform to the Musgrave Enterprise Architecture and are within the Solutions Architecture requirements
• Ensuring handover of projects to BAU support/operations
• Mentoring of team members
• Managing the supply and demand (in collaboration with the Demand Analyst within the team)
• Responsibility for the management of cost and timelines for delivery

We want you to take an active role in all the above working closely with Musgrave Colleagues and 3rd party Delivery and operations teams. We are looking for someone who is keen to constantly adjust and improve how we do things.

Key Relationships:

• Relevant Stakeholders incl. formal stakeholder forums
• Demand Analyst
• Development Team or delivery partner
• Solution Architect
• Project Managers

• Managing a team of Business Analysts/Technical Analysts
• Vendor management and contract negotiation
• Identification of vendors and delivery partners
• Service delivery and QA
• Working closely with stakeholders to decide and prioritise projects and activities including innovation
• Roadmap of product(s) including upgrades and patching
• Budget planning and tracking
• Delivery of projects
• Ensuring all designs conform to the Musgrave Enterprise Architecture and are within the Solutions Architecture requirements
• Ensuring handover of projects to BAU support/operations
• Mentoring of team members
• Managing the supply and demand (in collaboration with the Demand Analyst within the team)
• Responsibility for the management of cost and timelines for deliver