Product Owner

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**About You**:
You're driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.
You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference.
At Kimberly-Clark, we're constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results.
When you join our team, you'll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.
- As a Product Owner, you are at the heart of maximizing product value, responsible for articulating and prioritizing the product backlog items for a Scrum team.
You will own the product backlog and ensure that the team builds the right product increments in the most efficient manner.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- ** Work closely with Product Managers and stakeholders** to define product backlog according to the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
Ensure that the product backlog items solve business problems identified by the Product Manager and stakeholders.
- Accountable for **Product Backlog Management** by creating and clearly communicating product backlog items with stakeholders, product managers and Scrum team (including engineering manager); routinely **refining and prioritizing** the product backlog items balancing product development, BAU-'Business as Usual', engineering work, and bug remediation while delivering product value.
Maintain a **healthy and transparent product backlog** to ensure that the scrum team has adequate visibility and understanding of upcoming work.
- Create and maintain **effective release plans** based on the delivery team's.
available capacity.
Set release goals, in coordination with the Product Manager and the delivery team and provides support so that they can deliver on their commitments.
Collaborate with the Scrum team to **identify the dependencies of product backlog items** on other teams and coordinate with those teams to align on release plans, dependencies, and on the timeline to resolve these.
- Clearly define priorities for the scrum team and craft the sprint goal together with them.
- Provide support to the scrum team while they deliver on the promised value.
Actively work to address impediments to improve the team's flow of work during sprint execution.
- Work with the scrum team to ensure quality of work meets standards of excellence** (Acceptance criteria and Definition of Done).
** Review sprint backlog items and provide feedback about them to the scrum team.
Actively participate in agile events to represent the stakeholder needs to the team.
- Coordinate people (or any other resources) as needed for planning and execution of Product Backlog Items.
This may entail working with people from across the organization, from business leaders, Product Managers, engineers, UX, testing, dev ops, legal, training, technical writing, marketing, and support personnel, and others as needed.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Partners and Stakeholders to **plan Sprint Reviews, user acceptance testing and rollout/launch of the release/product.
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- Own communication to Product Manager and stakeholders regarding **product progres**s and value delivery.
**Key Qualifications and Experiences**:
- Bachelor's degree, ideally in IT or a business discipline.
- 15+ years demonstrable experience with supply chain processes, hands-on experience in designing and developing logistics and/or transportation processes and solutions (**Blue Yonder TMS**, FourKites Yard Management/Track & Trace, SAP).
- 4+ years' experience as a Product Owner or 7