Product Owner

The Waltham Petcare Science Institute provides the word-class science behind the MARS Petcare brands. Our work at WALTHAM covers diverse topics in pet nutrition, health, and wellbeing and is achieved through designed experiments and real-world data. The role of the Product Owner will be to deliver projects in collaboration with our IT partners and internal stakeholders that will transform our product landscape and provide an infrastructure that supports our Petcare strategy of creating a better world for pets.,

• Own multiple strategic data products that support our science, providing clear documentation on specifications and having a deep understanding of each solution at the data, technical and business process levels.


• Delivery of product build and continuous improvement projects whilst working with a range of stakeholders, ensuring clarification of business needs, timely implementation and high-quality change management.


• Responsible for ensuring that high quality data is presented from the products to our researchers, and the data dictionaries maintained in the data catalogue.
  
  An experienced product owner, managing the delivery of data products and systems that meet business needs:


• Educated to degree level in an IT subject, or equivalent experience.


• Comprehensive understanding of modern enterprise IT practices, especially system and product integration, micro-services, data management and data lakes.


• Strong project management skills (both agile and waterfall approaches) and experience of effective stakeholder management


• Experience of product lifecycle management principles and tools (e.g. DevOps) and relational database manipulation and interrogation.


• Experience in R&D environment is desirable.
  
  Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5 , SKITTLES®, BEN'S ORIGINAL® and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world's pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals , BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA and Pet Partners . Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles - Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom - inspire our 130,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.
  
  What can you expect from Mars?


• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.


• Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.


• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.


• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.