At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the delivery of Sales Analytics products and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Company: Join Sysco, a leader in foodservice distribution with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a supportive culture that values collaboration and creativity.
- Why this job: Make an impact by driving data-driven decisions in a dynamic sales environment.
- Qualifications: 7+ years of experience in analytics and team leadership.
The predicted salary is between 106200 - 199400 $ per year.
Compensation $106,200 - $199,400
Drives business value through the execution and delivery of Sales Analytics products and solutions supporting Sysco's Local and National Sales organizations. This role serves as the Product Owner for a cross-functional analytics pod, responsible for managing the product backlog, gathering and translating business requirements, prioritizing work, and ensuring successful delivery of analytics capabilities. The Product Owner partners closely with Sales, Analytics, Data Science, and Technology teams to deliver reporting, dashboards, insights, recommendations, and AI-driven capabilities that enable data-driven decision making. This role supports products and solutions across Salesforce, DecisionHub, Commerce Platform, Tableau, and related analytics ecosystems while ensuring work is delivered through established SAFe Agile processes.
Responsibilities
- Manage and maintain the product backlog for Sales Analytics products and solutions, ensuring business requirements are documented, prioritized, and aligned to business objectives and stakeholder needs.
- Partner with Local and National Sales stakeholders to gather, refine, and translate business requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable work items for delivery teams.
- Lead SAFe Agile product ownership activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization, Program Increment (PI) planning, sprint reviews, and release planning to ensure predictable delivery.
- Collaborate with Analytics, Data Science, Technology, and business teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood, dependencies are managed, and solutions are delivered according to business expectations.
- Prioritize work across Salesforce, DecisionHub, Commerce Platform, Tableau, and related Sales Analytics solutions by balancing business value, stakeholder demand, technical feasibility, and delivery capacity.
- Validate delivered solutions through user acceptance testing (UAT) and stakeholder feedback, ensuring requirements are met and solutions are production-ready.
- Monitor product performance, adoption, and user feedback and identify opportunities to improve analytics capabilities, user experience, and business outcomes.
Skills
- Proven experience managing and developing a high-performing team of analysts and matrixed technical analytics resources (BI Developers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Modelers, Quality Assurance Engineers).
- Ability to translate business needs into clear product roadmaps, priorities, and executable requirements that drive successful delivery and business outcomes.
- Exceptional interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills for collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, including executives.
- Strong ability to design metrics and analyze them along with using data to drive product decisions and improvements.
- Capable of identifying challenges in product development and navigating complex issues with practical solutions.
- Deep understanding of customer needs, with the ability to advocate for the user experience in the product development process.
Certifications Preferred and not required:
- SAFe® Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)
- SAFe® Agilist (SA)
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I or II)
Education
Bachelor's degree in related discipline or an additional 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
Experience
7+ years of experience, of which at least 2 leading a team.
Physical Demands
Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.
Travel Requirements
0-25%
Manager, Product Owner employer: Sysco (Canada)
Sysco is an exceptional employer that prioritizes operational excellence and employee development within a dynamic work environment. With a strong focus on continuous improvement and safety, employees are empowered to lead high-performing teams while collaborating across functions to achieve strategic goals. Located in a vibrant region, Sysco offers competitive benefits, a commitment to professional growth, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the food service industry.
