McCain Foods · 2 weeks ago
Product Owner, Sales Transformation
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$103K/yr - $137K/yr
5+ years expMcCain Foods is dedicated to leveraging technology and data to drive profitable growth and enhance customer experience. The role of Product Owner, Sales Transformation involves partnering with the Global Sales team to create a vision and roadmap for digitizing sales processes, while leading technology initiatives and ensuring data-driven decision making.
Food and BeverageFood ProcessingSnack Food
Responsibilities
Partner with global and regional Sales leaders of McCain to Co-create a 2–3-year vision & roadmap to digitally transform Sales processes across the McCain global organization
Lead and direct Technology teams to support execution of the prioritized of initiatives
Establish KPIs and measures to track the progress and report the deliverables of technology initiatives
Continually improve customer data quality & enrichment to enable prioritization of sales and service initiatives
Digitize to simplify commercial processes and embed data-led decision making and insights to enable continual improvement
Continue the vision of making Salesforce the single source of truth for customer information and orchestrator of digital business processes for Sales teams
Look to replace any legacy solutions with global best practice and platforms
Infuse knowledge of technology trends and competitor activity into decision making
Work closely with the Global Product Owner for Digital Marketing, Trade and Pricing and McCain’s Commercial leaders to maximize growth through connected marketing, trade and sales processes
Develops, owns, and executes product roadmap
Translates product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements
Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks
Participates in the development process with the development team and external partners to deliver product changes
Work closely with Data and Analytics teams to deliver Ai and data-led solutions
Prioritizes and maintains the backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders
Partners with product stakeholders to define the user experience
Identifies change management impacts to end-user community and collaborates with respective stakeholders to manage/mitigate
Ensures data & Insights are available to create actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer
Develops and maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment
Understands Product roadmap risks, issues, and blockers actively assists with issue resolution
Inspire, educate, and support product stakeholders in the regional markets to embrace and lead initiatives that will elevate their team’s Sales performance and expand the technical capabilities of all product users
Act as the "guardian of the global process & solutions" to ensure that McCain maintains global standardization unless deviation is required for specific market conditions, and this is agreed by the appropriate business sponsors
Act as the guardian of the user experience to facilitate product adoption, on-boarding and process efficiency
Establish and execute a strong engagement plan with Global, Regional commercial and technical and product stakeholders
Coordinate with business stakeholders and vendors to ensure products are embedded with an appropriate network of support for user onboarding and capability
Support the development of training programs & material, to sustain product capability
Proactively Explore industry trends and advancements in technology to identify new and leading solutions that will significantly impact the achievement of the business objectives and move McCain ahead of the competition
Identify opportunities within the business to improve or provide data & insights to enhance decisions or facilitate agility
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Business/Marketing/Engineering/Science/Technology
Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated work experience in Sales leadership or enablement (i.e. Trade Management, Pricing, sales planning & selling execution)
Knowledge of SAP / Salesforce solutions
Experience in leading projects preferably in a global environment
Experience working within an agile project delivery framework
Proven ability to work collaboratively across levels and functions internally and with third parties
Alignment with McCain core values
Drives Results, Collaboration, Customer focus
Benefits
Health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug)
Retirement savings benefits
Leave support including medical, family and bereavement
Vacation and holidays
Company-supported volunteering time
Mental health resources
Company
McCain Foods
McCain Foods is a family-owned business and manufacturer of frozen potato products and a global leader in prepared appetizers and snacks.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (7)
2023 (3)
2022 (6)
2020 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$5.6MKey Investors
Australian Renewable Energy Agency
2025-09-30Grant· $5.6M
Leadership Team
Angelo Buscemi
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Kathi Masters- Johnson
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