Product Owner

Are you a **Product Owner** or **Business Analyst** from within a retail/wholesale/distribution environment, with proven experience of aligning and improving solutions with business strategies and processes?

Would you thrive in a fast paced environment, working with Agile methodologies, whilst building strong and collaborative relationships with a variety of stakeholders?

Do you employ a business focused and customer driven approach to plan, build and deliver a product roadmap, ensuring clear agreement and understanding of solutions is effectively communicated throughout?

If so, this **Product Owner (ERP)** opportunity at Harding could be the next challenge for you

**About us**:
Harding is leading the way in innovative onboard cruise retailing, working closely with our cruise line partners and brand partners to excite and entice customers with unique shopping experiences. We stay at the cutting edge of retailing; consistently providing outstanding customer service and winning global retail awards.

Based at our Avonmouth office, the role is offered on a **hybrid working **basis

**About the role**:
The **Product Owner (ERP) **will report into the Senior Technology Business Partner, and holds responsibility for the following key areas:

- Analysis, vision & roadmap
- Aligning product enhancement to business strategy/requirements
- Business change and user acceptance support

You will own and develop the functional agenda of Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC) for Harding as design authority across its functional scope, from product set-up through replenishment, distribution, sales and accounting. You will work closely with super users to agree detailed processes and functionality, with responsibility for specifications on what BC and associated technologies will and will not do.

The role’s key initial focus will be embedding the processes after our upgrade from Dynamics NAV 2009 R2, and the transition from ‘project to product’. You will lead training and improvement activities to drive stability, and subsequently lead super users to deliver regular, iterative value from the platform, ensuring it unlocks further efficiency and enables scalable business growth.

**About you**:

- Worked in a retail/wholesale/distribution environment as a Business Analyst or Product Owner, with a track record of aligning and improving solutions with key business processes
- Able to operate at a strategic level across the full product lifecycle
- Experience working with Agile methodologies
- Customer driven and focused on delivering value
- Excellent influencing and communication skills to ensure clear agreement and understanding of solutions
- Good planning skills to ensure maximum output from constrained resources
- Builds strong, collaborative relationships with business stakeholders, Technology colleagues, partners, and end-users, to ensure efficient and effective issue resolution
- Ability to swiftly analyse, assess and challenge specifications
- Good cognizance of industry trends, ERP systems and digital technology
- Demonstrates a strong quality focus on user stories, testing and training
- Experience of working on full lifecycle implementations across ERP systems
- A good understanding of, and ideally experience of working with, Supply Chain & Distribution and Finance functions
- Must have an existing right of eligibility to work in the UK

Harding is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Harding.