The Helpful Smiles Technology Global Center (HST Global) in Bangalore is a division of the Hy-Vee IT team named as the Helpful Smiles Technology Center based in the US. It supports Hy-Vee’s business growth and modernization needs by accelerating the adoption of technology across enterprise operations. It offers tech talent the unique opportunity to transform retail technology at Hy-Vee and understand different markets and cultural dynamics, as well as the opportunity to work locally and remotely on IT challenges. The Hy-Vee IT team is looking to expand its capabilities in software development and delivery with roles such as Agile and full stack and data analysts based out of Bangalore. HST Global will serve the entire IT organization across roles and functions.
Job Description – Product Manager
About Hy-Vee
Hy-Vee, Inc. is an employee-owned chain of supermarkets with a revenue for more than $14 Billion dollars annually. Hy-Vee ranks among the top 5 most trusted brands and has been named one of America’s top 3 favourite grocery stores. Its more than 330 stores are in nine Midwestern states: Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Indiana and Wisconsin. Distribution centres are in Chariton, Iowa, and Cherokee, Iowa, with a third perishable operation in Ankeny, Iowa. Hy-Vee’s corporate office is in West Des Moines, Iowa.
The largest Hy-Vee stores are full-service supermarkets with bakeries, delicatessens, floral departments, dine-in and carryout food service, wine and spirits, pharmacies, health clinics, health markets, and full- service restaurants at some of its properties.
About HST Global
The Helpful Smiles Technology Global Center (HST Global) in Bangalore is a division of the Hy-Vee IT team named as the Helpful Smiles Technology Centre based in the US. It supports Hy-Vee’s business growth and modernization needs by accelerating the adoption of technology across enterprise operations. It offers tech talent the unique opportunity to transform retail technology at Hy-Vee and understand different markets and cultural dynamics, as well as the opportunity to work locally and remotely on IT challenges. The Hy-Vee team is looking to expand its capabilities in Bangalore. HST Global will serve the entire IT organization across roles and functions.
About the Team
Product management involves overseeing the development, launch, and continuous improvement of a product by coordinating with cross-functional teams and aligning with business objectives. It requires understanding customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscape to create a product that delivers value and drives growth.
About the Data Team
The data team at HST Global encompasses Data Integration, Data Platform and Data Analytics. This team is tasked with managing the entire lifecycle of data from collection to analysis from various sources like sales transactions and customer interactions. They design and implement effective data storage, processing and retrieval solutions for databases and build data pipelines, optimize database designs and work closely with data scientists, architects, and analysts to ensure data quality and accessibility.
Primary Responsibilities and Frequency:
Leads roadmap development strategy for the vertical product domain.
Effective and patient communicator that can translate technical and non-technical issues to various team members
Proven ability to guide the definition and refinement of product vision and strategy
Collaborates with internal teams (senior leadership, development, communications, finance, marketing, legal, etc.) to help teams go-to-market strategies and execute overall product vision for new products and enhancing existing products.
Experience working within an environment with a Continuous Discovery/Delivery mindset
Work with data engineers, BI engineers and external stakeholders (primarily third-party marketplace vendors) to coordinate on the requirements, domain knowledge, implementation details and validations.
Must have the ability to do arithmetic calculations involving fractions, decimals, and percentages
Assist with prioritizing projects deemed critical across the entire organization by helping manage to top priorities across teams competing for resources.
Help establish metrics to monitor overall product health and provide product enhancement recommendations.
Identify market opportunities and define product vision and strategy.
Ability to mentor Product Owners with some support
Help in conducting agile ceremonies, take ownership of running PI planning by coordinating with different stakeholders, creating dashboards reflecting team’s progress, KPIs, and health of different products and solutions.
Should have knowledge on writing SQL queries involving joins across multiple facts and dimension tables, applying different functions, aggregations and time-analysis on data.
Should be able to understand data models and come up with areas to report and analyze the data in multiple dimensions to generate meaningful insights.
Secondary Responsibilities: (These are considered occasional in nature)
Attends and is prepared to participate in department, company and industry meetings.
Provide assistance to Support Service personnel.
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering, Business Administration or Management, Information Technology, Marketing or Retail Management
8 to 12 years of similar or related work experience.
Performs other job related duties and special projects as required.
Hands-on experience with SQL querying.
Secondary – Experience working in any of the cloud environments and large data warehouse systems like BigQuery, Redshift, Teradata, Vertica, Snowflake.