Technical Product Lead
Role Overview
Lead delivery and support of technology solutions for Trade Promotion Management (TPM) and Trade Analytics.
Bridge business stakeholders, development teams, external vendors, and technology partners.
Drive product enhancements, project delivery, compliance initiatives, and alignment between business objectives and technical execution.
Key Skills for This Role
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Position summary
Lead delivery and support of technology solutions for Trade Promotion Management (TPM) and Trade Analytics.
Bridge business stakeholders, development teams, external vendors, and technology partners.
Drive product enhancements, project delivery, compliance initiatives, and alignment between business objectives and technical execution.
Product ownership and project delivery
- Own product backlogs for TPM and Commercial Operations platforms across Canada.
- Define, prioritize, and deliver enhancements with business stakeholders; translate requirements into functional and technical specifications.
- Act as liaison among business users, developers, vendors, and technology partners.
- Coordinate release planning, testing, change management, and user adoption.
- Lead concurrent initiatives across analytics, sales operations, compliance, and commercial technology.
- Maintain project plans, timelines, resource needs, risks, and dependencies; facilitate governance, status reporting, and executive updates.
- Manage scope, issues, escalations, and internal and external resources to support timely delivery.
Trade analytics and TPM support
- Support and improve Trade Analytics capabilities and Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions.
- Partner with developers and analysts to ensure reporting meets business requirements.
- Support Excel-based data collection, planning, and reporting; identify manual processes that can be automated.
- Lead support for TPM platforms serving Canada and U.S. operations, including enhancement requests, backlog prioritization, defects, and system improvements.
- Work with DevOps and development teams and coordinate user acceptance testing and business validation.
Compliance and audit
- Collaborate with internal and external auditors on compliance and SOX audit activities.
- Coordinate evidence collection, documentation, and system control validation for Trade Promotion systems.
- Coordinate data extracts, reporting requests, and audit-related queries with technical teams.
- Support adherence to governance, security, and compliance standards.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
- Experience working with TPM platforms.
- 5+ years in technology project management, product ownership, business systems analysis, or technical leadership.
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced business environment.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; experience collaborating with development teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
- Experience supporting enterprise business applications and technology platforms.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in CPG, Retail, Commercial Operations, Sales Operations, or Trade Promotion Management environments.
- Understanding of SOX controls, compliance processes, and audit requirements.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar project management tools.
- Familiarity with the Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem.
Pay
- Pay is $60.00–$70.00 per hour.
- Expected hours are 40 per week.
Work location
- Work location is in person.
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