Product Owner - Data & Analytics

About the position

If you're driven to get results and would like to collaborate within a fast paced, value focused Data and Analytics team, Kimball Midwest is a place for you. A national leader in maintenance, repair, and operation products, Kimball Midwest is looking for a dynamic Product Owner to join our Data and Analytics team. As a Kimball Midwest associate, you will experience why we have been recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in Columbus Thirteen years in a row! Our sales revenue growth is dynamic, increasing from $1 million in 1983 to over $500 million today. Throughout all our growth we have kept the family owned and operated culture alive. At Kimball Midwest, you are a name and not a number and we pride ourselves on our unique culture.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for maximizing business value by prioritizing and coordinating the efforts of product scrum teams, including maintaining a product roadmap and product backlog.
• Coordinates scrum team efforts to ensure alignment with the product roadmap.
• Communicates with stakeholders to ensure the product roadmap is clearly understood and aligns with corporate objectives.
• Understands and connects market conditions, overall corporate objectives, and development timelines to create and maintain a product roadmap that lays out a 6 quarter high level vision of the product's major features and changes planned.
• Adopts and supports accountabilities from the scrum guide.
• Manages changes and risks that accompany product updates and developments.
• Collaborates across the IT department and with stakeholders across the organization to ensure product development meets business needs and objectives.
• Manages the product backlog by maintaining a list of all development items, including support tickets, prioritized based on business value and corporate objectives.
• Works across all products to align roadmaps and dependencies.
• Communicates with the agile team to make sure the overall roadmap, release, and sprint goals are all understood.
• Manages 3rd party relationships as needed for product support.
• Manages relationship between business users and the scrum team to ensure the product development aligns with the user's needs.
• Manages and coordinates release schedules for the product.
• Monitors and reports on ROI achieved by product enhancements to stakeholders and executives.
• Creates and completes annual professional development plan (PDP), reporting updates on a quarterly basis.
• Demonstrates subject matter expertise for supported products including learning, understanding, documenting, and improving the functionalities and processes contained within solutions.

Requirements

• 3+ years working in a current Product Owner role in an Agile environment.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure/Fabric Cloud Data Warehousing.
• Working knowledge of analytics and business intelligence tools like Microsoft Power BI.
• Experience in asserting ideas and persuading others to gain support across an organization or to adopt new behaviors.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proficient presentation skills.
• Experience with prioritizing with multiple product teams and business stakeholders to align data and analytics delivery components.

Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Company sponsored life insurance
• Optional life and disability insurance
• Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) plus match
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Dress for your Day dress code
• Paid holidays