Automation Product Owner

JOB REQUIREMENTS: Automation Product Owner - 874371 DESCRIPTION/RESPONSIBILITIES: Automation Product Owner Job Description the candidate can be at any North American manufacturing site About You You're driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. Main responsibilities: Work closely with Product Managers and stakeholders to define product backlog according to the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Ensure that the product backlog items solve business problems identified by the Product Manager and stakeholders. Accountable for Product Backlog Management by creating and clearly communicating product backlog items with stakeholders, product managers and Scrum team (including engineering manager); routinely refining and prioritizing the product backlog items balancing product development, BAU-'Business As Usual', engineering work, and bug remediation while delivering product value. Maintain a healthy and transparent product backlog to ensure that the scrum team has adequate visibility and understanding of upcoming work. Create and maintain effective release plans based on the delivery team's available capacity. Set release goals, in coordination with the Product Manager and the delivery team and provides support so that they can deliver on their commitments. Collaborate with the Scrum team to identify the dependencies of product backlog items on other teams and coordinate with those teams to align on release plans, dependencies, and on the timeline to resolve these. Continuously refine Product Backlog Items together with the Scrum Team and other subject matter experts to ensure the team understands those items to the level needed for them to estimate and plan to work during sprint planning. Clearly define priorities for the scrum team and craft the sprint goal together with them. Provide support to the scrum team while they deliver on the promised value. Actively work to address impediments to improve the team's flow of work during sprint execution. Soft Skills and Others: Agile Collaboration: Demonstrated experience in effectively working with Agile and Product teams, including involvement with epics, user stories, sprints, and backlog management. Ability to collaborate closely with product owners, engineers, and scrum masters to foster a productive and agile environment. Leadership in Communication and Reporting: Skilled in leading communication efforts and reporting, adept at preparing and presenting comprehensive updates and reports to senior leaders and stakeholders. Ability to succinctly highlight key metrics, progress, and insights, ensuring transparency and alignment at all levels of the organization. Expertise in Backlog Prioritization: Proficient in prioritizing the product backlog as a core responsibility of the Product Owner role, ensuring that items are assessed and ordered based on their value, complexity, and impact to the business. Ability to balance various factors such as stakeholder needs, team capacity, market trends, and strategic objectives to guide decision-making and optimize product delivery. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Primary Location USA-WI-Neenah Additional Locations Knoxville Office, Roswell Building 300, USA-IL-Chicago, USA-TX-Dallas Worker Type Employee Worker Sub-Type Regular Time T pe Full time OTHER EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS: Key Qualifications and Experiences: Bachelor's degree, ideally in IT or a business discipline 15 years demonstrable experience with automation processes, hands-on experience in designing and developing end-to-end automated warehousing/manufacturing processes and solutions (SAP EWM, Blue Yonder WMS and various Warehouse Control Systems). 4 years' experience as a Product Owner or 7 years as a Senior Business Analyst in an agile or product development environment teams (e.g., epics, stories, sprints, backlog management, product owners, product engineers, scrum master, etc.). Experience with Key Collaborative Events and Processes like Demand Intake, Demand/Requests Assessment, Quarterly Planning, Product Backlog Management, Sprint Reviews and Product Demos. 3-5 years demonstrable experience mastering product development using human-centered design process that approaches problem-solving with understanding the user needs. Proven success working with self-managed, virtual team members. Strong Virtual meeting facilitation, interpersonal communication, training, negotiation, and presentation skills. Established background in launching software/solutions or services in partnership with business and engineering teams. High degree of proficiency in wireframes, prototyping, iterative development, understanding of agile principles. Ability to inspire a team to act as a small business jointly accountable for its product. Experience successfully driving end-to-end deliv APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: https://ars2.equest.com/?response_ide43be5ddc20f536606b3c3fcd94789fe Other: Applicants ONLY to apply via URL link provided