Digital Product Owner

Role Overview

• Contribute to refining the medium and long-term product vision by providing user insights, business needs, and feedback from operational teams.
• Translate defined strategy and objectives into actionable feature requirements.
• Support the creation and updates of product roadmaps by providing validated data points, user needs, and feasibility inputs.
• Maintain strong relationships with functional stakeholders to ensure alignment throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Think End to End, on application landscape (from Puma to Phoenix, Lynx,…); and on business execution (from Sales Manager to SDM, SDM to Perfumer,…); including all functional roles targeting overall increased productivity and higher win rate.
• Gather and document detailed business requirements through interviews, workshops, and direct observation.
• Write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications that reflect user and business needs.
• Prioritize backlog items in alignment with guidance from the Product Director and cross-functional priorities.
• While working on tool integration and the delivery of new features, continue improvement of existing features UI and UX
• Collaborate with IT engineering, UX, and data teams during grooming, sprint planning, and delivery cycles to ensure understanding and quality.
• Validate delivered features before delivery in production.
• Ensure they meet acceptance criteria and generate expected value.
• Collect user feedback and monitor usage metrics to contribute to continuous improvement cycles.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews including in remote
• Analyze existing business processes to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for simplification or automation.
• Work towards standardization across categories and geographies.
• Create clear process documentation and maintain it as products evolve.
• Participate in validation activities during deployments, ensuring that business needs are fully reflected in delivered functionalities.
• Contribute to the introduction of new technologies or automation tools by clarifying requirements and evaluating fit.
• Own and maintain the product backlog for their specific product(s).
• Ensure backlog items are well‑defined, structured, and prioritized based on user value and business context.
• Identify dependencies impacting the product and coordinate with relevant teams to resolve or escalate them.
• Support the definition of product-level KPIs by contributing to define meaningful user-centric and process-centric indicators.
• Integrate KPI needs within new feature requirements, ensure relevant data flows to dashboards.
• Monitor feature adoption, usage patterns, and product performance through analytics tools.
• Provide insights and reports to the Product Director to help guide product decisions and roadmap adjustments.
• Support change management activities by preparing feature documentation, release notes, and user guides.
• Collaborate with training teams to ensure new functionalities are well understood and adopted by end users.
• Participate in communication and onboarding sessions to help users gain confidence in new digital tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Digital Product Management, Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3–5+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or digital product delivery.
• Exposure to Fragrance Business.
• Knowledge and understanding of key success factors within this environment
• Experience interacting with large and complex operating framework, non-predictive workflow-driven applications is an advantage.
• Experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications.
• Familiarity with UX/UI concepts and user‑centric design.
• Ideally proficiency with product management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Aha!, or similar.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and backlog management practices.
• Ability to interpret basic analytics and KPIs.

Tech Stack

• Azure

Benefits

• A role with full autonomy and strategic impact
• Opportunity to work cross‑functionally in a highly collaborative environment
• Purpose‑driven work that impacts real consumer products
• We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy.
• We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status.
• We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.