Digital Transformation Product Owner

Job description

**Job Summary** We are looking for a Digital Transformation Product Owner to lead the evolution of demand planning and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) across our European Business Units. Acting as the bridge between business, data science, and technology, you will own the change agenda for cross-functional, volume and commercial forecasting — driving new ways of working, scaling autonomous forecasting, and shaping the development roadmap for our demand planning system and IBP forecasting engine. You will be accountable for the value capture model behind these solutions and for building business cases that justify and prioritize future enhancements. **Key Responsibilities** • Lead change management across cross-functional stakeholders for IBP, volume and commercial forecasting, ensuring adoption is embedded, sustained, and measurable. • Transform Business Unit ways of working by redesigning/improving forecasting processes and increasing the level of autonomous (touchless) forecasting across markets. • Collaborate with the global team to build joint product roadmaps, aligning European priorities with the global demand planning and IBP agenda to ensure a shared direction and leverage common capabilities and standards. • Drive the value capture model for the solutions — defining KPIs, tracking realized benefits, and ensuring forecasting improvements convert into tangible business value. • Create compelling business cases for enhancements and investments, quantifying cost, effort, benefit and risk to secure funding and stakeholder alignment. • Partner with data science and data engineering to evaluate statistical and ML models, provide structured feedback, and continuously improve forecast accuracy and consensus quality. • Align commercial, finance, supply and marketing teams within the IBP cycle to strengthen consensus forecasting and cross-functional decision-making. • Champion data quality across master and transactional data, guiding end users to remediate issues that impact forecast reliability. **Requirements** • 5+ years of experience in demand planning, IBP, supply chain, or a related digital transformation role. • Proven experience as a Product Owner or process lead, ideally within a demand planning / forecasting platform (o9, Blue Yonder, FutureMaster, SAP IBP or similar). • Strong change-management capability with a track record of driving adoption and new ways of working across multiple markets or functions. • Experience working with global / cross-regional teams to align priorities and deliver joint roadmaps. • Solid understanding of volume and commercial forecasting, consensus/IBP processes, and forecast value-add measurement. • Commercial and analytical acumen — able to build business cases, define value capture models, and communicate them to senior stakeholders. • Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills across cross-functional and multicultural European teams. • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Data or related field. • Fluency in English; additional European languages a plus. Nice to Have • Experience with ML-based forecasting engines and agentic / autonomous planning capabilities. • Familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake), data modelling, and visualization (Power BI). • Experience/Ownership of Agile product delivery (roadmaps, backlog prioritization, agile ceremonies). • Curiosity for a complex data landscape spanning data science and data engineering, in a fast-paced multi-stakeholder environment. Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.