CPG Data Domain Product Owner
Domain Consulting — CPG Data & Analytics Practice
Owns a CPG client's functional data domain (e.g., PLM, MDM, Demand/Supply, O2C) on behalf of the Data & Analytics consulting practice — translating business process, category, and industry knowledge into the data and product priorities the client actually needs. This is a domain/functional consulting role: the anchor is business process expertise and stakeholder judgment, with enough fluency in data concepts to brief and direct a technical delivery team.
Key Responsibilities
Domain & Process Consulting
- Bring deep functional knowledge of the assigned CPG domain (PLM, MDM, Demand/Supply, or O2C) — its business process, industry terminology, and typical pain points — to frame the client's problem correctly before solutioning starts.
- Diagnose gaps between the client's current business process and industry-standard/best-practice ways of working; translate these into a prioritized improvement and data agenda.
- Own the product vision and roadmap for the domain, defending it against competing client priorities using business rationale, not just delivery capacity.
Business Case & Stakeholder Management
- Lead discovery workshops with client business and IT leadership to surface decision drivers, functional requirements, and desired business outcomes.
- Build and defend the business case for each initiative — value drivers, adoption risk, and change impact — in language a client sponsor (not a technical audience) will act on.
- Federate Global/Local business stakeholders, client IT, and the delivery team into one agreed plan; hold the line on scope and business intent through delivery.
Requirements & Adoption
- Translate business needs into clear functional requirements (process, rules, decision logic, exceptions) for the delivery team to build against — staying accountable for business intent, not the technical spec itself.
- Define what good looks like for adoption — usability, trust in the output, and change-readiness — not just technical acceptance criteria.
- Drive adoption through an MVP-first, test-and-learn approach; manage the product/process through its full lifecycle from pilot to scaled rollout.
Industry & Practice Contribution
- Bring outside-in perspective — benchmark peer CPG companies and leading practices to keep the client's roadmap current.
- Build reusable domain frameworks, playbooks, and points of view that strengthen the practice's credibility in this functional area.
- Mentor junior consultants on domain knowledge and client stakeholder management; contribute to proposal/pre-sales narratives in this domain.
Candidate Profile
- 5+ years in CPG/FMCG business consulting, functional process ownership, or industry practitioner roles (not primarily technical/engineering roles); bachelor's degree required, MBA preferred.
- Deep functional expertise in at least one core CPG domain — PLM (ingredients, formulation, BOM, packaging), MDM/master data governance, Demand/Supply Planning (S&OP/IBP), or O2C — from either industry or consulting experience.
- Track record leading business process diagnosis and redesign, and building the case for change with senior client stakeholders.
- Comfortable directing (not personally executing) technical/data delivery teams — able to sanity-check a technical approach against business intent without writing specs or code.
- Strong workshop facilitation, executive communication, and stakeholder management across Global/Local business and IT.
- Familiarity with common enterprise platforms in the domain (e.g., PLM/MDM tools, planning platforms, ERP) at a functional, not configuration, level.
What Sets You Apart
- Thinks and speaks like a domain expert first, technologist second — leads with process and business outcome, not tooling.
- Builds trust with senior client stakeholders fast; earns the right to challenge their thinking on process and priorities.
- Converts ambiguous business pain into a crisp, defensible roadmap without waiting for the technical team to define the problem.
