Senior Digital Product Owner at Foodstuffs North Island

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Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

19 Apr, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

19 Jan, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication Skills, Agile Methodologies, Data Analysis, Product Management, User Experience Testing, Scrum, Collaboration, Mentoring, Digital Performance Tools, Web Technologies, Content Management Systems, SEO, Google Analytics, Facilitation Techniques

Industry

Retail

Description

Ko wai mātou - About us Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us! With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them. Our Support Centre is 1,000+ people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.” Te Tūranga – About the role As a Senior Digital Product Owner you will be working in a future-focused Customer team who are responsible for leading and creating innovative digital consumer facing products and services that truly differentiate us from our competitors by creating memorable ‘value add’ customer experiences. You’ll help lead the use of modern techniques, toolsets, and paradigms that allow us to be innovative, agile and resilient; adapting and acting fast to differentiate ourselves in an increasingly competitive, data connected and digital-driven world. To do this you’ll: · Maximise the commercial business opportunities from our digital products and ensure that the delivery teams focus on creating product feature changes that deliver true ‘value add’ to our consumers and grow our business thorough customer loyalty and adoption. · Work very closely with Product Managers, contributing to product design, discovery, product strategy, UX testing, and roadmap planning. Build a best-in-class omni-channel experience. · Be responsible for the discovery, creation, and maintenance of product documentation where it adds value and provides traceability. · Collaborate with Product Managers and other Product Owners to ensure any new products / features in development have no negative flow on effects to our core stack of products when released into production. · Foster a culture of making decisions based on data. Use metrics that provide valuable insights to business decisions. Comfortable with OKR creation and tracking · Lead the scrum team (or multiple teams) with the Delivery Manager to ensure their performance is at optimal level & that they are delivering to business objectives while continuing to meet the sprint goals. · Work very closely with Scrum Masters and Delivery Leads to manage all user stories - plan, estimate, prioritise, kick off, and backlog refine. · Liaise with wider Foodstuffs teams. e.g. UX / Analytics / Membership & Property/Marketing. Portfolio leads. · Mentor other members in the team and help to introduce new frameworks and ways of working. He kōrero mōu - About you You’ll be a sharp analytical thinker with strong commercial acumen, and exceptional communication skills to drive meaningful outcomes. You’ll thrive in ambiguity, quickly absorb new information, and translate complex problems into actionable solutions. With deep technical fluency and a solid grasp of digital and retail environments, you’ll be able to validate ideas through data, ensure alignment to business strategy, and lead teams to deliver high‑quality, impactful products in a fast‑paced Agile environment. Highly organised, influential, and collaborative, your ability to build strong relationships across the business and guide teams with confidence will consistently deliver value-driven results. You’ll also have: · Proven strength in reporting performance and outcomes, including OKRs · Skilled in product techniques to identify root problems and uncover value opportunities · Experience in a range of facilitation techniques and adapting the technique to the situation. · Experience in a range of planning techniques that enable the business to understand the size of work ahead on the roadmap, and which levers we can move to help deliver efficiently on time. · Proficient in manipulating and understanding data and data structures, good knowledge of APIs and web/mobile development practices. · Good understanding of web technologies. · Experience with content management systems, web standards, HTML/CSS/scripting, SEM, SEO, Google Analytics, Multi-variant testing tools, digital performance tools and social media platforms. Ngā painga - What we offer We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits: · Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs · Southern cross health insurance · Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores · Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave · Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes). We’re interested in your diverse experiences, your strengths and how adaptable you are to learn and grow. If you don't meet every requirement, but feel this role could be for you, we’d still love to hear from you! Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you. We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau. We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity. If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to Recruitment.Foodstuffs@foodstuffs.co.nz. Accommodations could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology. Are you ready to be part of our bunch – apply now! \n \n

Responsibilities

As a Senior Digital Product Owner, you will lead the development of innovative digital products and services, ensuring they deliver value to consumers and drive business growth. You will collaborate closely with Product Managers and other stakeholders to optimize product features and maintain documentation.