Product Owner

Ecolab's Food Safety Solutions Division protects the health and safety of our customers, and our customers' customers, with industry leading food safety solutions. Focused exclusively on commercial food safety, we bring cutting-edge innovation to diverse markets, sharing our expertise to help companies strengthen their brand, enhance customer satisfaction, increase efficiency, and implement more environmentally sustainable practices.

The Product Owner role will work in a collaborative team environment that delivers Digital Apps and Tools for Food Safety Solutions. This will include integrated field, corporate account, and customer solutions from data capture, UI/UX, reporting and merchandising while leveraging innovative mobile, portal, and reporting technologies.

The Product Owner identifies, documents, and validates business requirements used by the technical team to provide functionality necessary to meet business objectives. This role is instrumental in implementing a proprietary mobile application to our Digital Solutions platforms.

Main Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate and have accountability for requirements management via a product backlog

• Communicate using a variety of methods such as text, diagrams, prototypes, story mapping, user stories and use cases.

• Facilitate requirement gathering sessions including product backlog refinement with the team.

• Acting as scrum master/project manager on smaller projects playing a dual role

• Identify, understand and document business requirements using use cases and storyboards

• Prioritize the requirements and backlog according to business value in partnership with the product owner.

• Negotiate, collaborate and resolve requirement conflicts

• Assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experiences while providing solution alternatives and recommendations to the team and stakeholders.

• Improve project processes or recommend improvements as deemed appropriate for the project.

• Support multiple projects with different solution teams simultaneously as business needs dictate

• Quickly learn new processes, tools, business domains and technical applications

• Set priorities, adapt to change, plan carefully and meet established timelines

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional department teams across the organization and work well within the team

• Understand the impact of business change; serve as a change agent for business process changes.

• Coordinate and assist with user acceptance testing sessions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 10 years' work experience in a technical, analytical and problem-solving role

• 8 years' experience with project management and/or business analysis, prefer Agile experience

• 5 years' experience including creativity, innovation and researching new technical solutions

• 5 years' experience writing clear and concise requirements and business communications.

• 3 years' experience developing use cases/user stories

• 5 years' in process mapping and workflow optimization

• Visa sponsorship is not available for this role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Restaurant or food Industry experience in preferred

• Bring a positive and collaborative energy to the dynamic scrum team

• You are a strong technical, analytical and process driven thinker with strong problem-solving skills

• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing including executive level presentations

• Self-starter with detail orientation; persistence and ability to work independently to drive execution.

• Ability to anticipate change and transition with agility and flexibility while still meeting customer and corporate needs in a fast-paced environment

• 5 years' experience supporting and implementing solutions for a company with a large field sales or service team.

• 1 years' experience working in an Agile environment

• Agile software tool such as JIRA/Confluence

• BA or PM certification

A trusted partner at nearly three million customer locations, Ecolab (ECL) is a global sustainability leader offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services that protect people and the resources vital to life. Building on a century of innovation, our 49,000 associates help deliver comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world class service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. For more Ecolab news and information, visit www.ecolab.com

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