Lead, Product Owner, RGM & Sales Digital Transformation

Kraft Heinz is building a digital transformation for Retail Growth Management (RGM) and Sales, and this role owns a critical product domain in that effort. As the Lead, Product Owner for RGM & Sales Digital Transformation, you will guide the Assortment and Price Pack Architecture (PPA) roadmap, connect integrated RGM decision-making across analytics and AI, and stay accountable for adoption and measurable category-growth results.

What you’ll do

• Shape and communicate the product strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap for Assortment and PPA as part of the enterprise RGM Tech Strategy and Digital Roadmap
• Partner with the Pricing Product Lead and Promotion Product Lead to ensure integrated RGM thinking, with decisions that reflect cross-lever dependencies, trade-offs, and combined category impact
• Deliver the Assortment and PPA roadmap from strategy through production, including scalable capabilities such as category and customer assortment optimization, geospatial opportunity identification, and AI-enabled recommendations
• Enable the four-layer analytics strategy by connecting governed enterprise data, specialized intelligence and agents, the Integrated RGM Orchestrator, and the KHAI experience into an end-to-end decision journey
• Support realization of KHAI as the end-state enterprise experience, enabling persona-specific missions and connecting Integrated RGM decisions with Sales, Category Leadership, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain business routines
• Define success measures and remain accountable for adoption, decision quality, and measurable category-growth outcomes, including product-specific operational and financial KPIs
• Translate user, customer, and market needs into prioritized product capabilities, user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements, maintaining a backlog ready for delivery three to four sprints ahead
• Manage dependencies across RGM products, data foundations, agents, and enterprise platforms, and build effective partnerships across business, technology, data science, design, and external solution providers
• Lead product discovery, release planning, stakeholder alignment, weekly demonstrations, and feedback loops to deliver roadmap value iteratively and at scale
• Integrate user research, usability testing, and adoption insights into product decisions to build intuitive and trusted customer experiences

What you bring

• 4+ years of experience in RGM, Sales, Category Leadership, Marketing, digital product management, or related transformation roles
• Experience working with an Agile Pod structure to develop a product pipeline and deliver toward an end goal
• Strong understanding of RGM and category-growth levers including pricing, promotion, assortment, and PPA, with the ability to connect them into integrated commercial decisions
• Depth in assortment, category, and customer strategy, with experience making strategic category, customer, or portfolio decisions for brands or retailers preferred
• Proven ability to turn enterprise strategy into a sequenced product roadmap and deliver digital capabilities across business, technology, data, design, and analytics teams
• Experience with digital products, advanced analytics, and AI, including product vision, requirements, adoption, and value realization
• Ability to work with business functions to translate business and user needs into technology requirements
• Understanding of governed data foundations, optimization models, AI agents, and orchestration patterns across complex enterprise data and decision systems
• Strong stakeholder leadership, communication, and influencing skills, supported by technical fluency (for example, working knowledge of data products)
• A Bachelor’s degree in a business, analytics, or technical field; master’s degree preferred

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary range: $141,500.00 - $176,900.00 (NEW HIRE BASE SALARY RANGE)
• Bonus: Performance-based bonus eligibility as provided by plan terms and governing documents
• 401(k): 7% matching
• Healthcare: Medical, dental, vision coverage (including screenings/assessments)
• Time off and leave: Paid Time Off, company holidays, leave of absence, and flexible work arrangements
• Employee programs: Employee Assistance Program, wellbeing programs, family support programs
• Other benefits: Business Resource Groups (BRGs), recognition, training; plus financial benefits including life, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability

Location: Chicago/Aon Center, Chicago, IL (onsite).