Technical Product Lead
Role Overview
The Technical Product Lead guides delivery and support of technology solutions for Trade Promotion Management and Trade Analytics.
The role bridges business stakeholders, development teams, external vendors, and technology partners.
The position drives enhancements, project delivery, compliance initiatives, and alignment between business objectives and technical execution.
Key Skills for This Role
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Position summary
The Technical Product Lead guides delivery and support of technology solutions for Trade Promotion Management and Trade Analytics.
The role bridges business stakeholders, development teams, external vendors, and technology partners.
The position drives enhancements, project delivery, compliance initiatives, and alignment between business objectives and technical execution.
Product ownership and technical leadership
- Own backlogs for Trade Promotion Management and Commercial Operations platforms across Canada.
- Define and prioritize enhancements with business stakeholders and translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
- Liaise among business users, developers, vendors, and technology partners.
- Coordinate release planning, testing, change management, and user adoption while maintaining business and compliance alignment.
Project management
- Lead concurrent initiatives across analytics, sales operations, compliance, and commercial technology.
- Maintain project plans, timelines, resource requirements, risks, and dependencies; manage scope, issues, and escalations.
- Facilitate governance, reporting, stakeholder communication, executive updates, and coordination of internal and external resources.
Trade analytics and reporting
- Support and enhance trade analytics capabilities with business and technical teams.
- Coordinate improvements to Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions and help ensure they meet business requirements.
- Support Excel-based data collection, planning, and reporting tools and identify process automation opportunities.
TPM systems support and compliance
- Lead technical support and enhancements for TPM platforms supporting Canadian and U.S. business operations.
- Manage enhancement requests, backlog priorities, defect resolution, and system improvements; coordinate user acceptance testing and business validation.
- Support SOX audits through evidence collection, documentation, control validation, data extracts, and responses to audit queries.
- Ensure technology solutions meet 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.
- At least 5 years in technology project management, product ownership, business systems analysis, or technical leadership.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced business environment.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience collaborating with development teams, vendors, and business stakeholders and supporting enterprise applications and technology platforms.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in CPG, retail, commercial operations, sales operations, or trade promotion management environments is preferred.
- Understanding of SOX controls, compliance processes, and audit requirements is preferred.
- Agile, Scrum, Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar project tools are preferred.
- Familiarity with the Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem is preferred.
Pay
- Pay is $60.00–$70.00 per hour.
- Expected hours are 40 per week.
Work location
- The posting specifies work in person in Toronto, Canada.
Term
The stated duration is 6–12 months.
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