Manager, Product Owner - Sales Intelligence

Sysco is the global leader in foodservice distribution. With over 71,000 colleagues and a fleet of over 13,000 vehicles, Sysco operates approximately 333 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 700,000 customer locations. We offer our colleagues the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, to contribute to the success of a dynamic organization, and to serve others in a manner that exceeds their expectations. We're looking for talented, hard-working individuals to join our team. Come grow with us and let us show you why Sysco is at the heart of food and service.

Compensation

$106,200 - $199,400

Role

Drives business value through the execution and delivery of Sales Analytics products and solutions supporting Sysco's Local and National Sales organizations. This role serves as the Product Owner for a cross-functional analytics pod, responsible for managing the product backlog, gathering and translating business requirements, prioritizing work, and ensuring successful delivery of analytics capabilities.

The Product Owner partners closely with Sales, Analytics, Data Science, and Technology teams to deliver reporting, dashboards, insights, recommendations, and AI-driven capabilities that enable data-driven decision making. This role supports products and solutions across Salesforce, DecisionHub, Commerce Platform, Tableau, and related analytics ecosystems while ensuring work is delivered through established SAFe Agile processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the product backlog for Sales Analytics products and solutions, ensuring business requirements are documented, prioritized, and aligned to business objectives and stakeholder needs.
• Partner with Local and National Sales stakeholders to gather, refine, and translate business requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable work items for delivery teams.
• Lead SAFe Agile product ownership activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization, Program Increment (PI) planning, sprint reviews, and release planning to ensure predictable delivery.
• Collaborate with Analytics, Data Science, Technology, and business teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood, dependencies are managed, and solutions are delivered according to business expectations.
• Prioritize work across Salesforce, DecisionHub, Commerce Platform, Tableau, and related Sales Analytics solutions by balancing business value, stakeholder demand, technical feasibility, and delivery capacity.
• Validate delivered solutions through user acceptance testing (UAT) and stakeholder feedback, ensuring requirements are met and solutions are production-ready.
• Monitor product performance, adoption, and user feedback and identify opportunities to improve analytics capabilities, user experience, and business outcomes.

Skills

• Proven experience managing and developing a high-performing team of analysts and matrixed technical analytics resources (BI Developers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Modelers, Quality Assurance Engineers).
• Ability to translate business needs into clear product roadmaps, priorities, and executable requirements that drive successful delivery and business outcomes.
• Exceptional interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills for collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, including executives.
• Strong ability to design metrics and analyze them along with using data to drive product decisions and improvements.
• Capable of identifying challenges in product development and navigating complex issues with practical solutions.
• Deep understanding of customer needs, with the ability to advocate for the user experience in the product development process.

Certifications

Preferred and not required:

• SAFe® Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)

• SAFe® Agilist (SA)

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I or II)

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline or an additional 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.

Experience

7+ years of experience, of which at least 2 leading a team.

Physical Demands

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.

Travel Requirements

0-25%