Product Owner for Dynamic Pricing Solution
We are seeking a Product Owner with a technical background to lead our dynamic pricing solution. In this role, you will be responsible for organizing, prioritizing, and assessing work for our scrum team. Your tasks will include incorporating feature requests into the product roadmap, grooming and prioritizing backlog, and developing user stories with clear acceptance criteria. As a bridge between product and technology, you’ll play a crucial role in planning releases, coordinating sprints, and ensuring our products align with the company’s vision. Dynamic pricing stands as one of the cornerstone data products for our company. It plays a pivotal role in optimizing revenue, enhancing customer satisfaction, and maintaining competitiveness. By leveraging modern machine learning approaches, our dynamic pricing system adapts to real-time market conditions, customer behavior, and inventory levels. As a Product Owner, you will have a direct hand in shaping this critical product, ensuring its alignment with our strategic goals, and providing valuable insights to the Group management. Your technical expertise will be instrumental in driving its success and impact across the organization.
Required education: University Degree
Required languages: English (advanced), Czech or Slovak is benefitial
Employment form: Full-time work
- Product Strategy and Vision: Define and communicate the vision for dynamic pricing, ensuring alignment with overall company goals. Develop a strategic roadmap that outlines short-term and long-term objectives.
- Backlog Management: Prioritize and groom the product backlog. Collaborate with stakeholders to incorporate feature requests, enhancements, and bug fixes. Ensure that user stories are well-defined with clear acceptance criteria.
- Agile Leadership: Act as a bridge between product and technology teams. Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, and daily stand-ups. Champion agile methodologies and foster a collaborative environment.
- Technical Insight: Leverage your technical background to understand the intricacies of our machine learning-driven pricing algorithms. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and architects to make informed decisions. Effectively utilize Azure resources including Databricks and foster onboarding of cloud native approaches.
- Stakeholder Communication: Regularly engage with stakeholders, including Group management. Provide updates on product progress, solicit feedback, and address concerns. Advocate for the product’s value and impact.
- Release Planning: Coordinate product releases, ensuring timely delivery of features. Work closely with development teams to define release scope, manage dependencies, and track progress.
- Performance Metrics and Optimization: Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to pricing effectiveness, revenue, and customer satisfaction. Identify areas for improvement and drive optimization efforts.
- Proven track record in product management within a data-centric environment.
- Solid technical background with experience in Data or Data Science.
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps / JIRA and Azure technology stack including Azure Databricks (Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, PowerBI, MS SQL Server)
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- A strategic role within a friendly team where you can occasionally enjoy a glass of beer outside of work hours
- Working for the leading pharmacy chain in CEE with great expansion plans
- Responsible global level job with an impact on the business as a whole
- Position within a new product where you can have an impact
- Space for professional growth within the growing organization
- Flexible working hours, possibility of home office once a week
- 5 weeks of holidays, discount in Dr. Max pharmacies, meal coupons, contribution to free time activities (discounted Multisport card) and many other benefits in cooperation with our business partners
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your CV to groupHR@drmax.eu
The Dr. Max Group is owned by the Central European investment group Penta, established in 1994. Penta’s business areas include health care, financial services, manufacturing, retail businesses and real estate development. Penta manages a single fund for its partners, the shareholders in the company. The companies in Penta’s portfolio employee more than 43,000 people, and the Group’s asset value reached € 11.1 billion in 2020. Penta operates in more than 10 European countries and has offices in Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw and Munich.