Commercial Product Owner – Trading Systems
HybridYeovil, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Own the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for the Commercial domain, ensuring alignment to business strategy and transformation objectives. Build relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders to translate priorities into clear, prioritised outcomes and feature propositions. Lead backlog refinement, plan releases with Delivery Leads, and manage dependencies to ensure delivery aligns with wider milestones. Work with Solution Architects to align product direction with technical vision while understanding and managing technical trade-offs. Agree, track, and report on delivery and outcome-based metrics to ensure benefits realisation is visible to stakeholders. Champion value-stream benefits across delivery teams and stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Retail industry experience
- Strong understanding of commercial or trading operations
- Experience owning products or enterprise platforms supporting commercial capabilities such as merchandising, product lifecycle, PIM, pricing, promotions, sourcing or supplier management
- Demonstrable experience owning product strategy, roadmaps, backlogs, prioritisation and measurable business outcomes
- Experience working with strategic technology partners and third-party platforms
- Strong analytical skills and IT literacy, with confidence working across complex enterprise technology platforms
- Experience delivering product and technology change within complex business or commercial environments
- Strong team player who uses initiative and diplomacy when liaising with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong influencing, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong networking and relationship-building ability across all organisational levels
- Able to build engagement, lead delivery, and drive outcomes using robust product management methodologies
Desired Qualifications
- D365/ERP experience
- Experience with comparable enterprise platforms
- Knowledge of agile working practices
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