Are you interested in joining the dream team at Wesfarmers OneDigital?
Good call. We’re an exciting new digital enterprise with big ideas, supporting some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic brands focussed on making lives better for people all around Australia. We’re well on our way towards bringing the best of digital and data possibilities together to create more personalised shopping experiences for customers across our retail brands.
We’re continuing to bring the best talent and skills under one roof, working together and across disciplines to build amazing experiences for our customers. We continuously feed off each other’s insights, talents and capabilities, because we are a business that thrives on open collaboration and a shared vision of positive, fun and rewarding experiences.
The Delivery Chapter is comprised of cross-functional based roles, and they will be enabling roles rather than hands on technology roles. This chapter houses capabilities around oversight, planning, taking the UX experience and breaking it down into technical requirements, and ensuring the right version of environments exist for the OnePass platform to be used effectively
Your Role
What you’ll be doing
The Technical Product Owner will join our delivery craft to help set the tone for success through understanding the scope, requirements, goals and vision of the organisation. You will collaborate with all members of the team, a partner and extension of our product management function, the Product Owner works as a conduit between the business and technology.
In this role, you’ll work across within a stream, across two multi-discipline teams, instilling in them a clear vision and a passionate drive. You will play an instrumental role in fulfilling the vision through facilitating the right thinking and decisions,
Key duties and deliverables:
- Support the team with backlog management and refinement, aligning to product roadmap and objectives, tech debt management, identification of goals and engagement of key stakeholders.
- Establish close relationship with the product management counterparts, delivery leads, technical leads and other key stakeholders to understand impact of decisions, business priorities, technical limitations and customer and design requirements to support the stream.
- Support the end-to-end product delivery using practical agile methods as part of a cross-disciplinary team to progress towards business outcomes. This includes deployments, product releases and change management where appropriate.
- Support the delivery team to adapt to changes, overcome challenges and extend the agile practice.
- Gathering and clearly documenting business, technical and non-functional requirements, and acceptance criteria
- Use data and metrics to drive thinking towards understanding the right problems to solve and ensuring we measure and learn on implemented features and product functionality
- Contribute to the effectiveness and continuous improvement of product and delivery
- Develop personal capabilities by participating in assessment and development activities, maintaining an understanding of relevant standards, technology, and good industry practices
What you will need
- Experience in similar role as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, senior business analyst or similar
- Well-developed communication skills. Share the good, the bad and the ugly – with the best intent of getting the right thinking and outcome for our customers, people & partners
- A passion to coach, mentor and educate people to continuously learn, grow and thrive
- An understanding of different technologies, product practices, and tools.
- An ability to support culture development and change where appropriate
- Experience, practical knowledge (or exposure) to Product Delivery or Product Engineering
- Exposure to a broad range of agile methodologies and in a variety of setting, including distributed teams
- A friendly and approachable demeaner with good relationship management skills
- A curious mind coupled with practical and pragmatic approach
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Strong focus on outcome and data driven ways or working and decision making
- High level of flexibility to adapt to change, navigate ambiguity, prioritise work and outcomes
- Strong understanding of agile and Lean principles and can lead and improve the team with a customer centric focus
- Ability to solve problems, manage risks, and proactively remove blockers with consideration to customer and business impact
Nice to haves
· Bachelor's degree in business, Commerce, I.T or similar area
· Extensive experience in Fast- moving Consumer Goods, Retail, SaaS or similar
· 2+ Years agile product experience or equivalent
Why OneDigital?
Working in a community of industry-leading innovators with a diverse and deep set of skills and experience, you will learn, collaborate, and co-create to achieve great things.
- You’ll have ownership of your role, which will allow you to find the right balance between stretch and sustainability, work, and life.
- Culture of comradery and collaboration - OneTeam
- Plus, all the tools and learning you need, the tone is set for you to shine and succeed.
- We know that diversity fosters greater innovation and better customer connection, so we strive to create a team where everyone feels like they belong. We support diversity, inclusion and we are a gender-neutral organisation. We celebrate individuals at their core, so they shine to their best.
Team Benefits – just to name a few!
To support you at work, what you value in life and in the community, our team member benefits include:
- Access to the latest technologies
- An annual budget for your learning and development (this includes learning of your choice, certifications and more)
- Extended parental leave (16 weeks for primary carers), and paid volunteer days
- Flexible working – we balance working together with working flexibly
- People-focussed culture that celebrates achievements big and small
- Oh, and did I mention paid subscriptions and discount cards.
Next steps
If this sounds like your next career move, then click on the ‘Apply’ button now. Please note that we may commence interviewing candidates prior to the application closing date.