Product Manager, Analytics & Reporting

Why work for Dawn Foods?

PEOPLE.  PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS. 

Product Manager, Analytics & Reporting

Remote (must be able to work on Eastern or Central Time)

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• 3 weeks PTO
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce

About the Job

Reporting to the Vice President, Technology, based in Jackson, MI, and collaborating with team members around the U.S. and the globe, as Product Manager, Analytics & Reporting you are the consummate team player, adept at managing relationships, collaborating and influencing across a variety of organizational functions.

You will partner with key business stakeholders and the Technology team to identify and prioritize reporting improvement activities in consideration of business and user needs, so team members can comfortably and easily access and consume data to make data-informed decisions via insightful analysis and reporting.

This role will take a proactive approach to understanding what data and reporting is needed and develop user stories, including consideration of AI/ML and RPA, that achieve business objectives by partnering with, and bridging between, cross-functional stakeholders and the Technology team.

To effectively identify and prioritize problems and opportunities related to reporting a sufficient level of understanding and empathy is required, so the successful candidate will have extensive experience extracting, analyzing, visualizing, reporting, and presenting data to achieve business objectives.

What Does It Take to be a Product Manager, Analytics & Reporting at Dawn Foods? 

Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.

• Experienced business judgment, BS/BA required

• 4+ years of experience compiling data, conducting sophisticated and creative analysis of complex data, and then building stories and visualizing data to translate into actionable deliverables, messages, and presentations

• Extensive experience with SAP ERP or Business Intelligence (BW) and experience with RPA, AI/ML, data repositories, and metadata

• Professionally courageous and creative with a proven track record of taking ownership, influencing others, and building credibility and trust with all levels of the organization, across functions

• Ability to empathize, communicate, and collaborate with technical and business team members; experience eliciting requirements and gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders 

• Track record of successfully leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to prioritize and drive decision-making

• Communicate effectively at all levels of the organization with strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to create and deliver effective presentations

• Accountable, curious, adaptable, and driven by contributing to business transformation and growth

• Maintain a high level of productivity and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative, and team-oriented environment

• Up to 15% travel

What You'll Do as a Product Manager, Analytics & Reporting

• Contribute to the creation of the vision, strategy, and product roadmap to transform how everyone in our organization, irrespective of their technical know-how, can comfortably and easily access and consume data to make data-informed decisions via insightful analysis and reporting to help drive the realization of desired business outcomes

• Collaborate cross-functionally to identify current and future pain points, needs, and limitations preventing us from achieving this ambition then define requirements and deliverables to overcome them and accelerate how the organization moves from data to insights to action

• Develop and justify recommendations with sound business judgement, a proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical skills

• Create and foster a network of change advocates and super users throughout the business

• Evangelize a better framework for understanding of data and analytics, and lead cross-functional training, education, and change-management efforts to drive adoption of new tools, data standards, governance, and ways of working

• Serve as a key contributor to Dawn’s strategic initiative to be a data-driven enterprise

• Evaluate new process and product performance and return on investment

• Commit to continual research and evaluation of market developments in innovation, new technology and trends in the industry related to data and reporting

• Present recommendations to cross-functional senior leadership, including the Chief Digital Officer, Chief Information Officer, and members of the Dawn Leadership Team

• Strive for “what’s possible” and challenge the status quo while remaining grounded in the realities of where we are on our data and reporting journey

• Demonstrate Dawn’s Values and support the Dawn Circle of Excellence

Work Environment

This position is Remote (work from home). The candidate in this role needs to be able to work on Eastern or Central Time.

About Our Benefits

Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits.

 If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply.”

About Dawn Foods

Dawn Foods provides high-quality bakery solutions to customers around the globe. With unmatched manufacturing and distribution capabilities, we bring together the knowledge, commitment, and innovation our customers deserve.

Compensation Range

$86,580-$138,530 + Bonus Potential