Lesaffre Digital & Data ambitions 

Lesaffre’s Digital & Data journey started some years’ ago with a strong push to encourage and cross-fertilize initiatives across the organization. Business impact of some of these first actions (Sales efficiency tools, My Lesaffre App for Bakers, digitalization of key operations etc…) have confirmed the importance of accelerating this journey. 

Digital & Data are to become a fundamental transformative force for Lesaffre growth. On one hand, as a lever to increase customer centricity and user experience. On the other, to bring operational excellence across the company. 

More concretely, some of these opportunities are: 

• Further empower salesforce & leverage digital marketing to capture, convert and keep our future and current clients and consumers 

• Leverage omnichannel strategies to sell, serve and delight our customers 

• Turn our industrial operations even more intelligent and efficient (digitalization of processes, automatization of low added value tasks, industrial productivity, supply chain performance …) 

• Contribute to unlocking further value and efficiency on R&D processes 

• Empowering transversal functions to deliver better user experiences 

To accelerate this journey, a substantial additional effort is being put in place. The recent arrival of a Chief Digital & Data Officer (ExCom member) has marked the beginning of this acceleration. With a more structured and results oriented journey, CD&D officer is creating a new organisation. Data and Tech is at the heart of the transformation. A Data and Tech Factory has been created to valorise Lesaffre’s data assets, and deliver use cases, governance capacities, and innovation. Both embedded in the Business and at a Global level, digital & data talents will be crucial to this transformative journey both in the impact to business as well as the development of D&D capabilities. 

In this context, Lesaffre is recruiting a Product Manager.

This position will be part of the Data & Tech Factory and will report to the Head of Data & Tech Products. You will play a key role in shaping our data projects and implementing product strategy and agility across the team.  

You will be responsible for a portfolio of projects/products and will be in charge of defining their vision, macro features and roadmap. Depending on the case, you may have to work directly with a Product Ower (whom you will lead), or lead the Delivery yourself (agile rituals, writing User stories, etc.) To do this, you will have to work with a wide range of business contacts in a wide variety of areas of the company. You will be responsible for helping to spread Product Management throughout the company. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• You lead the team's transformation from projects to products  

• You will be responsible for leading the discovery phase: user workshops to gather requirements, identify solutions and co-construct prototypes. 

• You communicate regularly on the team's progress and any difficulties encountered  

• You are the main point of contact for all stakeholders for all projects/products of your portfolio.  

• In some cases you will have to write user stories and define acceptance criteria following workshops with the business  

• In some cases you will have test the developments and assist the users in their tests 

• In some cases you will have develop, maintain and prioritize the product backlog 

• In some cases you will be in charge of managing external product owners  

There is no such thing as a ‘perfect’ candidate. Lesaffre is a place where you can grow and in which whatever background you come with will be a plus. If you feel excited about the position, we strongly encourage you to apply even if you meet only two third the requirements. 

• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional and collaborative team environment.  

• Ability to lead a team on a day-to-day basis and helping them to grow. 

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.  

• Good skills in Product Management methods 

• Good skills in agile methods and in associate rituals   

• Ability to challenge requests and to be a strong driver for the different people involved 

Required Qualifications: 

• At least 7 years of professional experience, including 2 years as a Product Owner and 2 years as a Product Manager, ideally in a Data Team. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; French is a plus.