Product Manager, Graph CoE

Key Skills

DevOps, Kanban, Leadership, Product Management, SQL

Job Description

Role Profile

(A concise statement setting out the main purpose and objectives of the job)

Businesses face the daunting task of analysing intricate value chains and making proactive or reactive decisions to optimize value. This challenge has been further amplified by COVID-19, disrupting traditional industry practices and intensifying global climate and geopolitical risks.

In response, we have developed a state-of-the-art Graph Analytics Capability that connects our value chain from end-to-end, empowering us to analyse large and complex data sets at scale and speed, resulting in solutions and value what was not possible before.

Our Graph Analytics Capability has proven its value with the successful implementation of a procurement use case in Nov'22, garnering overwhelming interest from various business functions, including CD, Supply Chain, Finance, and Sustainability. Therefore, it is now time to scale up this capability crucial to fully leverage drive greater value across the organization.

If you are a product manager who has a passion for scaling up technology innovations, this is your opportunity. Graph Analytics is seen as a key competitive differentiator in the industry and is a priority of Business Operations and UniOps.

You will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of Graph CoE, including but not limited to Use Case Deliveries, Budget Management, Value and ROI Measurement, Communication, Community Building with Data Scientists.

Key Accountabilities

(Describe the decisions this role is accountable for, and the responsibilities/deliverables expected)

• Execute Graph CoE strategy rigorously with quarterly deliverables
• Be 100% accountable for end to end delivery and DevOps of use cases
• Ensure Data Quality is highest by executing the data quality roadmap
• Ensure a well-rounded communication strategy is created and executed, including trainings of business users, data SMEs, data engineers and data scientists
• Ensure demand collection happens efficiently and funnel is reviewed by design committee regularly
• Design and Launch Graph Challenge Unilever wide to push training agenda and drive value
• Secure funding for key projects/programs as part of POCs
• Create and nurture a close relationship with business users/user groups to continuously feed use cases and ideas to improve existing products as well as test new ideas/prototypes
• Define the technology’s vision and mission, and motivate and inspire the product team
• Determine the milestones of delivery and pivotal moments and checkpoints

All About You

(Experience and qualifications required)

We are looking for someone with scale up experience who understands holistic process of running a Center of Excellence in an agile way.

We encourage you to apply if you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for below. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need!

Essential Experience

• Through understanding of Technology Scale Up, having experience with launching and scaling up technology innovations across different platforms and geographies
• SQL Knowledge and well-rounded appreciation of Data Science applications to business problems
• Proven thought leadership on challenging problems, rigorous mindset not settling for an incomplete solution
• Product management experience, having delivered end to end digital solutions that delivers measurable business outcomes; being part of a team delivering multi country products/platforms
• Proven experience operating and project managing in a complex organizational environment
• Experience interacting with senior / stakeholders; understanding, anticipating, and fulfilling their insight.
• Experience in budget management and end to end delivery
• Experience in Communication/Change Management/Building Learning Plans

Desirable Experience

• Having worked on a digital role as Product Manager, managed a project budget of €3M+
• Leading a global roll out of a product/programme
• Worked in as part of squad that runs with Kanban methodology.

Professional Skills (foundation/practitioner/mentor)

• Product Management in Technology - Practitioner
• Product Discovery and Solution Design – Practitioner
• Project Management - Practitioner
• Product lifecycle management – Foundation
• Supply Chain Business Understanding - Practitioner
• Leadership Skills
• Demonstrates strong Inner game
• Strong Design Thinking/Agility and innovation mindset – intellectually curious, constantly looking to develop, embraces change with sense of urgency and enjoys positively challenging status quo
• Personal drive and ability to inspire and engage others towards action
• Personal mastery –emotionally resilient; always bringing the best of themselves
• Demonstrates great Outer game
• Credible business acumen – shows understanding of business, commercials and performance metrics. Has gravitas to effectively influence senior stakeholder within a functional and business context
• Encourages experimentation, bringing the outside in, and intelligent risk taking
• Brings the voice of the consumer and internal customer into everything they do
• Passion for high performance – creating motivation and focus to drive execution at speed
• A talent catalyst – encouraging collaboration and inclusivity, empowering teams to be their best

What do we offer:

From our foundation, Unilever has been a purpose-driven company. Today, our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace. We are working to create a brighter future every day with brands and services that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life. That includes us – the people who work for Unilever, as well as the world around us. Unilever’s flexible rewards and benefits are designed to help us all have sustainable households, for whatever life stage you are at now and in the future.

These include:

• Great work environment
• Flexible work environment built on trust and autonomy
• Pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family
• Well-being hub with access to benefits such as Healthcare, eye tests, health checks, occupational physio