***Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC or GC candidates***
Job Summary:
Drive Health & Wellness B2B Food as Medicine product development, including Soda Health and OptUP Integration, through delivery. Working with cross-functional teams, this position will solve business problems while demonstrating the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.
OptUP is a Kroger specific nutrition rating system. The manager be open / flexible if candidate does not have experience here, but would prefer someone with similar product experience (nutrition data, nutrition scoring systems, etc.).
Top 3 skills -
o B2B OptUP API creation and implementation with a third party
o OptUP data attribute ingestion into Kroger MX Pipeline
o Data Exchange for Product SKU list with a third party
Soft Skills Needed
o Communication - prior experience road mapping, understanding stake holders and their roles/who to give info to
o Not afraid to escalate critical issues, speak up about roadblocks, good sense of urgency
o Leadership Behaviors: Achieves Results through Teamwork, Coaches and Develops Others, Communicates Effectively and Candidly, Executes with Excellence, Leads Change and Innovation, Leads through Positive Influence, Provides Clear and Strategic Direction, Puts the Customer First.
Team Dynamic: No dev team in current state
Key Identifiers of desirable candidate(s) -
Product management experience working with B2B or B2C Healthcare, Wellness, and/or Nutrition solutions
Experience working on product solutions that involve one or more of the following criteria and/or activities:
API Integration
Data mapping
Data reporting and/or analysis for a relatively complex data set
Data Integration
Experience with contract management, program management, and/or project management
Job Description
Drive Health & Wellness B2B Food as Medicine product development, including Soda Health and OptUP Integration, through delivery. Working with cross-functional teams, this position will solve business problems while demonstrating the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.
Minimum Position Qualifications • Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation • Bachelor's Degree in computer science, business, marketing, management or equivalent practical experience • 3+ years of experience bringing customer-facing technology products to market • 3+ years of software development, product management or business analyst experience in an technology business with demonstrated success in sales and/or customer use through the delivery of new/evolving products • Experience with iterative product development (Agile) • Product management experience working with B2B or B2C Healthcare, Wellness, and/or Nutrition solutions • Exchange Solutions - developing products for healthcare payers, providers, clinical associates and/or their beneficiaries • Experience working on product solutions that involve one or more of the following criteria and/or activities:
o API Integration
o Data mapping
o Data reporting and/or analysis for a relatively complex data set
o Data Integration
• Demonstrated leadership experience in product management • Experience with contract management, program management, and/or project management • Excellent oral/written communication skills and extreme attention-to-detail • Proficient Microsoft Office skills • Ability to identify metrics/key performance measures and use data to drive decisions that enhance the customer & user experience
Desired Previous Experience/Education • Experience using the following systems and/or applications: Productboard, Jira, Mural, Confluence • Experience with Gen AI / ML • Experience with a multi-channel retailer, including an understanding of ecommerce, food merchandising and supply chain operations • Experience with products and/or digital experiences that support lead generation for B2B sales
Key Responsibilities:
Essential Job Functions • Create, maintain and communicate B2B Food as Medicine product roadmap(s), including near-term delivery and 1-2 year product evolution, to stakeholders across the organization while aligning and supporting company and business unit strategies • Develop a product plan and deliver product capabilities and enhancements to market by working with technical and non-technical partners; measuring output, improving execution and continuously delivering production expectations • Create and maintain robust product documentation including technical requirements, product plans and roadmaps in appropriate systems (Jira, Productboard, Confluence, etc) in collaboration with multiple teams • Move identified product requirements and feature enhancements through completion via cross-functional collaboration with product stakeholders and while keeping line-of-site into the overarching B2B Food as Medicine (Soda Health / Nutrition Security Solution) Strategy. Individual capabilities include but are not limited to:
o B2B OptUP API creation and implementation with a third party
o OptUP data attribute ingestion into Kroger MX Pipeline
o Data Exchange for Product SKU list with a third party • Support vendor-managed capabilities including but not limited ongoing oversight of vendor roadmap and technical requirements, submission of change requests / support tickets to vendor as needed, QA and oversight of vendor owned capabilities, collaborative discovery / guidance for vendor-owned capabilities as needed. • Leverage data, analytics and insights to measure and improve B2B Food as Medicine KPIs, including OptUP product nutrition rating coverage and accuracy. • Model Agile principles by maintaining a groomed backlog and providing 1-N prioritization for backlog • Execute criteria within Minimum Viable Product timeframes, and any subsequent key milestone dates - enforcing the speed/frequency with which enhancements and new capabilities need to be delivered • Remain flexible and adaptable to business priorities / needs • Escalate critical issues, gaps, blockers or risks to leadership in a timely manner so as not to delay implementation • Build highly collaborative cross-functional partnerships across the Kroger matrix organization • Identify new product requirements and feature enhancements through collaborative engagements to support product strategies, as needed • Confidently manage relationships with a vast range of stakeholder types including: Corporate/Business stakeholders, Kroger Technology stakeholders across pillars (including but not limited to MX, CX, HWX), external B2B and/or vendor stakeholders, and more. • Execute regular meetings with stakeholders to review priorities in order of now, next and later, and KPIs / metrics as an indicator of product health and progress.
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