Overview

Now, more than ever, companies need to engage with their customers digitally. As the world's pre-eminent distributor of beverage alcohol, at Southern Glazer’s, we capitalized on the shift toward digital by launching the Proof™ program – our multi-pronged digital transformation initiative encompassing our sales team, service department, customers, and suppliers. A critical component of the Proof program is Proof 360, which is a Supplier Portal providing Suppliers with a variety of self-servicing tools and features.

With Proof 360, we will be giving our Suppliers a powerful digital tool for engaging and collaborating with our internal SGWS teams. In addition, we are providing Suppliers with greater visibility to key insights, dashboards, and much more. 

As a Proof 360 Digital Product Owner, you will report to the Senior Director of Digital Transformation and play a central role in designing, building, launching, and maintaining capabilities for Southern Glazer’s.

Primary Responsibilities

Given the multifaceted nature of the role, the right candidate is an individual who is:

• A technologist, who can translate business requirements into comprehensive user stories that enable the scrum team to develop capabilities
• A problem solver, who is self-directed, proactive, and comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity
• A strategist, who can help define and articulate a clear vision and the tactics to achieve it
• An entrepreneur, who understands how to create and capture value, and how to take an idea from concept to operational reality with a bias for action

Additional Primary Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities

• Working in a Scaled Agile environment (SAFe), act as product owner guiding the design, development, and launch of Proof 360 new capabilities and enhancements.
• Facilitate requirements discovery, solution design, user story writing, feature development, dependency identification, risk mitigation, and user acceptance testing.
• Contribute to the product roadmap and backlog of Proof 360.
• Partner with cross-functional teams regularly to ensure alignment on feature development and prioritization as part of the Scaled Agile delivery model.
• Partner with IT to manage the roadmap and backlog to ensure that IT delivers all capabilities on time and per expectation.
• Monitor and evaluate product performance to ensure constant product iteration and improvements with digital operations team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field required
• 3+ years of product management and digital operations experience (B2B and/or Saleforce.com Communities experience a plus)
• Agile or Scaled Agile (SAFe) experience highly valued
• Successful track record of developing products within deadlines    
• Analytical, data-driven problem solver, critical thinker
• Enterprise-level wholesale channel distribution experience a plus, but not required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent selling, negotiating, and influencing skills
• A customer service mindset
• Organization, multi-tasking, and time management skills
• Determined to get things done 

Physical Demands

Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.