Product Management/ Owner - Chennai/Pune

R24_0011412 - Product Owner || GFK-NIQ , Chennai/Pune

At GfK – An NIQ company, we are on a mission to drive sustainable growth for our people, our clients, and the world around us. We combine prescriptive insights and consulting expertise to analyze, explain and predict what is happening in today’s fast-changing world. 

Our employees, the shapers of tomorrow, are empowered to bring new bold ideas to life by connecting unique datasets, science, and digital research. We encourage innovation and offer global career and fast development opportunities. This is why the world’s largest companies and leading brands know GfK as their trusted partner.  

We are looking for a skilled professional, the Product Owner helps ensure a delivery team can achieve its business goal through management of the team’s product backlog on our flagship product, gfknewron Market. The role, along with the delivery leads, shares accountability for product delivery. You will understand how to develop software products and how to give context to a delivery team. You will understand how to balance delivering the most valuable new features for our customers, generating and testing new ideas, ensuring the product is secure and code and product debt free while giving the team the space to self-improve. 

Responsibilities 

• Provide the delivery team with their PI & sprint goals. You’ll support organizing PI pre-/reviews and alignments to ensure we are matching commercial priority (product management) or function’s needs (internal systems) 
• Understand the businesses and the platforms’ commercial strategy and with your manager be able to translate this to your team and show your teams’ role in delivery of that strategy 
• Support cross-functional teams working to discover problems and solutions together. This team will include both delivery leads (engineering, design, DS, and AC), product manager and additional members, as needed, to solve the problem. 
• Able to build strong relationships with other parts of the delivery community – design engineering, data science and operations.  
• Support day-to-day delivery within the team including escalations and reporting 
• Ensure there is a well-groomed, well-understood, prioritised backlog of work  
• Work with the delivery leads to generate estimates for new initiatives 
• Make space for engineering managers and scrum masters to generate and implement ideas to improve delivery 
• Demonstrate strong tactical thinking 
• Work with senior technology counterparts to choose the best delivery strategy e.g., buy vs build 
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives 
• You may coordinate / lead / coach individual contributors in which case the first three points may be via them 

• 3+ years of technical product management experience including responsibility for a product or project delivery 
• Passion for delivering excellent software products 
• Creative problem solving 
• Enthusiasm for delivering change through people and technology 
• Ability to switch between tactical planning and day to day delivery, being the authority in all aspects of your product 
• Leadership and influencing skills, adapting your decision to different team styles 
• A high level of team contribution, seek opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus, role model effective collaboration 
• Experience in Agile development methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban 
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of software development processes and methodologies 

Don't meet every single requirement? Some people are less likely to apply unless they meet all the requirements listed in a job specification. GfK is looking for self-starters to join our innovative team keen to take on a new challenge. So, if you're excited about this role but your skills and experience don't align perfectly with every requirement we've listed, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. 

We are an ethical and honest company that is wholly committed to its clients and employees. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace for all and are committed to equal opportunity in employment which focuses on all of our employees reaching their full potential. We are looking forward to meeting you!

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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