SAFe Product Owner

Product Owner

Our teams are looking for a product owner (PO) for an upcoming project. The project is to assist with the implementation of existing technology from our supercenters into our market format stores. The first areas of focus will be ordering, receiving, and inventory management systems. We will look for this individual to learn and become the subject matter expert (SME) for multiple systems, help develop IT requirements, assist with process/gap analysis, and other tasks that will lead to a successful implementation.

Required skills:

• SAFe product owner
• Roadmap creation
• Proven leader

Job duties:

• Defining, grooming, and planning of the work
• Coordination with existing PO’s and TPO’s across merchandising, store team member tools, and EDAA (on the IT and business side)
• This PO will report to an individual on the business side
• Ideally local to Grand Rapids, or at the very least, close to another market format store (Lansing, Detroit area) as they will benefit from store and market format visits
• Leader and decision maker for assigned agile team(s) within the SAFe framework
• Sees projects from start to finish, including detailed breakdown of features at the beginning, through measuring success post-rollout
• Conveys the vision and goals to their team for each new feature prioritized
• Creates, owns and is measured against their agile team’s objectives for each 10 week program increment
• Maintains and prioritizes their team’s backlog during the sprint planning process
• Attends all regularly scheduled meetings as part of the SAFe framework, including sprint planning, sprint demos, system demos, retrospectives, and program increment planning events
• Communicates status and progress externally

Job requirements:

Responsible for overall technology advancements and development for their role's defined area of focus (e.g.: Meijer market format and Meijer big box stores). This product owner will work very close with various ITS teams to define, develop, and launch new digital features and capabilities. This product owner is also a key leader within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) that Meijer has adopted across multiple areas of the business. This role offers the unique opportunity to create new experiences for our customers, as well as improve internal business processes. Individuals in this role must live and breathe all things digital, and have the aptitude for both technical and business requirements.

Education: Bachelor’s degree required

Experience: 5+ years previous retail systems experience preferred.