Data Manufacturing & Production Product Owner

We are Pernod Ricard, a leading company in the global spirits industry with over 19,000 employees globally. We own 16 of the world’s top 100 Spirits Brands and hold one of the most prestigious and comprehensive brand portfolios in the industry with 240 premium brands available in over 160 countries, including: Absolut vodka, Ballantine’s, Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, and The Glenlivet Scotch whiskies, Jameson Irish whiskey, Martell cognac, Havana Club rum, Beefeater, Malfy and Monkey 47 gins, Malibu liqueur, Mumm and Perrier-Jouët champagnes.

In the UK, Pernod Ricard is made up of 4 businesses:

• Pernod Ricard UK, which markets, sells and distributes our products in the UK market
• Chivas Brothers, the largest brand company in the Group, responsible for the production and management of our award-winning Scotch whisky portfolio
• Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail, the global and EMEA home of the group’s duty free, air travel and cruises business.
• The Absolut Group, the brand owner of our global white spirits portfolio, whose Gin brand unit and Business Acceleration team sit in London.

We are an organisation of 2,000 employees in the UK, headquartered in London, in a brand-new office designed with sustainability, ‘conviviality’ and collaboration in mind. We also have offices in Scotland and various distilleries and production sites across the UK from Plymouth to London to Speyside.

This position sits in our Chivas Brothers business. At Chivas Brothers, our 1,600-strong team across 27 sites is committed to upholding the heritage of Scotch and ensuring its sustainable future, as well as opening it up to new audiences across the globe.

Embark on an exciting and transformative journey with Pernod Ricard’s Global Tech Team, operating in an agile mode with a dynamic product organisation. Join a collaborative environment where innovation thrives, and your contributions will directly shape the trajectory of our cutting-edge products. As a key player in our agile set up, you will have the opportunity to drive efficiency, foster creativity, and play a pivotal role in our product development process. Become part of a team that embraces adaptability and values continuous improvement, ensuring we stay at the forefront of technology advancements on the global scale.

We are looking for a Data Manufacturing & Production Product Owner to lead the delivery of high-impact, trusted data products which serve globally manufacturing & production processes. You will have end-to-end ownership of the data products within your scope – from shaping product vision and roadmap, to leading agile delivery and value realisation. Acting as the voice of the business, you will partner with stakeholders within your domain functions to translate needs into powerful data-driven solutions.

To build and evolve best-in-class data products with the highest ROI and user satisfaction, you will lead an agile squad of functional and technical data experts. You will be responsible for backlog definition, prioritisation, delivery coordination, and performance monitoring, while managing product-level budget and supporting successful rollouts and adoption.

You will have 7 main areas of responsibility:

Own and evolve the product vision and roadmap for manufacturing & production data (including Quality, Safety, Research & New Product Development)

• Define and maintain the purpose, scope, and long-term direction of your data product(s), aligned with global priorities.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure your roadmap delivers tangible business value and is fully aligned to user needs and transformation goals.

Prioritise delivery and manage the product backlog and budget

• Translate business priorities and opportunities into actionable user stories and backlog items.
• Assess effort and impact, facilitate estimation, and ensure prioritisation based on value.
• Maintain an up-to-date backlog and roadmap; clearly communicate these to business and delivery teams.
• Manage product-level budget and secure effective financial reporting where needed.
• Ensure agile ceremonies are in place to drive predictable delivery and squad alignment.

Drive product roadmap and coordinate the work of development team

• Explain business needs & product backlog to development team, ensuring developed solutions are addressing business needs.
• Facilitate day-to-day interactions with the squad, anticipating & managing risks and interdependencies.

Lead system demo activities and rollout plan

• Define objectives and acceptance criteria for features.
• Perform high-level fit-gap and change impact analysis in collaboration with Business Process Owners.
• Define the rollout roadmap and build supporting guidelines and templates to ensure successful product deployment and adoption.
• Optimise end-to-end product development process.

Represent the voice of the business

• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across planning, logistics & inventory management to understand how data supports decision-making.
• Act as a key interface between business needs and technical delivery teams.
• Work closely with subject matter experts to deeply understand operational processes and data needs, translating them into actionable user stories and requirements.

Ensure product quality, compliance, and value delivery

• Define success metrics, monitor adoption and feedback, and use data to guide continuous improvement.
• You’ll ensure governance, privacy, and lineage standards are embedded within the product lifecycle.
• Track value realisation.
   

Support our transformation into a product-led, data-driven organisation

• Champion best practices in data product thinking.
• Help embed ways of working, share lessons learned, and support a culture of iteration, learning, and delivery excellence.
• Optimise end-to-end product development process.

Internally, you’ll work with:

• Data Operations Product Manager (your Line Manager), who sets the strategic vision and owns the domain roadmap
• Business Stakeholders across Manufacturing & Production functions (including Quality, Safety, Research & New Product Development.)
• Data Engineering, BI & Analytics Specialists, Data Architects and Platform Teams
• Data Governance Teams
• Fellow Product Owners within Data & Analytics and wider Tech Teams

Externally, your contacts may include:

• Third-party consultants and vendors supporting delivery

• Product peers and contributors across the wider Pernod Ricard Group

This position could be right for you if you:

• At least 5 years of proven experience as a Product Owner (or equivalent), with significant exposure to complex, cross-functional delivery in data-rich environments – ideally involving manufacturing & production / operations data.

• Bring strong knowledge of manufacturing & production processes and how they relate to data and can represent the needs of stakeholders within corresponding functions.

• Are comfortable managing a product backlog and shaping feature delivery with agile teams.

• Understand the data lifecycle and how business needs are translated into data product features.

• Communicate clearly across technical and business roles and can influence without formal authority.

• Are a strategic thinker with value-driven mindset (e.g. for roadmap creation, value monitoring).

• Have practical experience with the modern data stack (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, dbt), cloud data platforms (e.g. Azure Data Lake), business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI), and working with ERP systems data.

• Care deeply about data quality, governance, and creating usable, scalable products.

• Have an interest in data mesh, data product thinking, and emerging data practices, with strong understanding of agile mindset and practices.

• Feel comfortable working in ambiguity and driving progress in fast-evolving environments.

Our mix of benefits

For your health, we offer private medical insurance, income protection and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.

Our lifestyle benefits include 28 days’ annual holiday, your employee pension, share incentive plan, season ticket loans, payroll giving and more!

You can access lots of gifts & discounts, including an allowance each year to spend on our brands in our staff shop and employee discounts from a range of high street retailers.

We have regular events in our very own office bar, employee-run networks, a culture of flexibility and trust and a variety of tools and resources to help you focus on your wellbeing and mental fitness.

Conviviality: the Pernod Ricard Way

We have our own way of doing things. We call it conviviality! It’s our way of being, and something unique you feel and experience when working for Pernod Ricard.

We’re committed to conviviality, and with this, you’ll be Proud to Belong to our Pernod Ricard family. You’ll be Empowered to Perform, supported to succeed, and acknowledged for the value you bring.

We combine all this with our Commitment to Care: we are unlocking the magic of human connection to transform our industry and make a positive impact on the world though our strong focus on sustainability and responsibility.

We’re committed to diversity and inclusion

People are at the heart of everything we do at Pernod Ricard and are the foundation of our collective spirit as ‘Créateurs de Convivialité’.

We promote diversity and inclusion throughout our business and supply chain. In our teams, we proactively foster a diverse work force and an inclusive culture – an environment where we can truly be ourselves. 

We will assess your application for this role based on your skills, experiences and achievements, not your gender, age, ethnic or educational background or any other such factors. Please feel free to leave these off your CV and application form if you so wish.

Similarly, if you would like to discuss opportunities for flexible working or require accommodations or support to complete our application process, please let us know.

Responsible drinking

As ‘Créateurs de convivialité’, we want to turn social interactions into genuine and friendly experiences of sharing and wellbeing.

In our culture, we want to create diverse teams in which our differences contribute to our success. Therefore, all are welcome at Pernod Ricard, regardless of your religious beliefs or personal choices on the consumption of alcohol.

In our business, we work together with industry members, civil society, governments, local authorities and UN bodies to promote responsible drinking. 

Job Posting End Date:

2026-01-12

Target Hire Date:

2026-03-02

Target End Date: