Senior Digital Product Owner

About Us

You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square, right? That’s us! We are one of NZ’s biggest companies, you just don’t know it, because in true Kiwi style – we are humble about it (apart from right now maybe)! Our Support Centre is 1,000 people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in supporting our network of 330+ stores across the North Island. We serve over 1.3 million customers every week in the most awesome little country in the world!

About the role

As a Senior Digital Product Owner you will be working in a future-focused Digital Transformation team who are responsible for leading and creating innovative digital consumer facing products and services that truly differentiate us from our competitors by creating memorable ‘value add’ customer experiences.

You’ll help lead the use of modern techniques, toolsets, and paradigms that allow us to be innovative, agile and resilient; adapting and acting fast to differentiate ourselves in an increasingly competitive, data connected and digital-driven world.

You will also be leading teams throughout the life cycle of products, to deliver create value, solve customer problems, meet business objectives and mentoring and developing our junior Product owners’ roles, along with helping to introduce new frameworks and ways of working in the Product Owner and delivery space.

About You:

You’ll be enthusiastic and passionate about doing your job, constantly curious and always seeking to improve your knowledge. You will also have excellent communication and relationship building skills as there are multiple touch points across the business. Strong analytical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills will also paramount to your success.

You will also have:

· Tertiary qualification in a related field (or equivalent experience).

· 5+ years as a Product Owner/Senior Business Analyst in an Agile environment.

· Knowledge in customer-facing technologies, data structures, APIs, and web/mobile development.

· Experience with content management systems, web standards, SEO, Google Analytics, and digital performance tools

· Experience leading teams/scrum teams to manage performance and business output as well as strong stakeholder management skills.

· High competency in performance reporting and outcome delivery and the ability to deliver in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

· Proficiency in product techniques and experimentation.

· Retail experience within digital is preferred.

What's in it for You?

In return, we offer a competitive salary package, including fully subsidised health insurance, flexible working arrangements, free parking, participation in the company superannuation fund, birthday leave, and long service leave! Additionally, we provide abundant learning and development opportunities to help drive your career forward.

Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.

We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome applications from you all regardless of who you are or what you do. We welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau, but most importantly we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.