IT Product Owner

Overview

Data is oxygen for AI. At Eaton we are modernizing the way we use data and our global teams to accelerate our digital transformation.

Across our Global IT organization, we’re transforming the way we work.

Our teams are leveraging agile, lean six sigma and building a product centric organization that allows our IT product teams to adapt and respond more quickly to changing business needs.

Join our Information Technology team to drive critical business outcomes as an IT Product Owner leading transformative change across our organization, global data processes, and platforms.

Within our Chief Data & AI Organization (CDAO), we’re currently seeking an IT Product Owner to drive all aspects of our Product Information Management (PIM) implementation — partnering closely with key business stakeholders to drive our next generation MDM strategy that enable productivity, accelerate decision making and drive growth.

As a part of our Enterprise Master Data Management team, the IT Product Owner will act as a trusted advisor and valued member of the CDAO’s extended staff and will be responsible for Eaton’s Product Master Data Management (MDM) strategy, product roadmap and key business outcomes the product team intends to deliver.

In this role, you will be responsible for the evolution of our PIM and complimentary data products, and you’ll work across Eaton’s global organization, partnering closely with business executive and product teams to deploy the product MDM strategy tied to business priorities and outcomes.

You will be responsible for managing the global product backlog—across both our Electrical and Industrial sectors – to ensure the most critical outcomes/deliverables are actioned upon appropriately, while leveraging agile and lean principles to deliver maximum results.

To be successful, you’ll need to build strong relationships across business groups and IT partnering closely with each to ensure product outcomes are prioritized, resourced and dependencies are effectively managed.

• What you’ll do
• Works closely with business executives and business process owners to create the product vision and roadmap.
• Facilitates discovery sessions with cross-functional groups to understand key business outcomes to deliver within the customer MDM data product.
• Defines user stories and collaborates with the global product team to effectively prioritize deliverables, features and functionality all tied back to business outcomes.
• Creates processes for gathering, managing, and executing the product backlog.
• Drives Next Generation MDM principles, processes, and technologies across Eaton.
• Outline Next Generation Product MDM data strategy, product roadmap, key business outcomes and communicate effectively across a global business product team.
• Spearhead key change management aspects across the Product MDM landscape in partnership with global business process owners to drive engagement, awareness and deliver key outcomes.
• Support execution on a comprehensive Information and Data value stream strategy.
• Ensure Information and Data products are delivered via Dev Ops standards.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution required.
• A minimum of 6 years of data/application management experience.
• Product Owner experience
• Position Criteria/Experience
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Solid working knowledge of scrum/agile principles and using those in practice.
• Experience with data governance principles, data quality and data integration concepts, germane to MDM.
• Strong analytical, organizational, time management, facilitation, and process management skills.
• Establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at senior levels of an organization and demonstrated experience managing vendors.
• Influencing global teams and managing global consulting resources.
• Ability to lead team through diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues and recommending and implementing solutions to resolve problems—both technical and functional.
• Managing multi-million-dollar budgets across business divisions.
• Driving global change management initiatives.
• Reporting to executive leadership – CIO, VP Marketing Sales, President/GM business divisions.
• Technical Knowledge
• Working knowledge of Oracle's Master Data Management EBS Suite--focused on product and product domains.
• Stibo STEP MDM, Kafka, Snowflake, Cloudera, Atlan, SAP S4, Salesforce
• Demonstrated understanding of Master Data Management principles and next generation technologies in the market customer/partner data domains.
• Previous experience partnering closely with an enterprise architecture organization to lead and facilitate future state workshops and drive enterprise strategy.
• Relationship management experience specifically working across business functions and resources to deliver priority items.
• Experience managing program delivery within an agile framework and under a product management foundation.
• Experience working with a mixture of 3rd party and cloud native technologies and ecosystems, including AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Our offer
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
• Flexible working solutions (remote, flexible working hours, compressed week etc.)
• We make your aspirations matter – Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible
• We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University
• We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people’s lives and the environment through power management technologies.
• We make your wellbeing matter – We put your health and safety first.

Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it’s about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen

All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees.

Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.

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