Royal Canin
Data & Analytics Associate Product Manager, North America
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Everything we do is driven by our passion for pets. Across every role and every location around the world, our teams are united by a shared purpose: creating A Better World For Pets. As a truly pet-centric company, we put pets at the heart of everything—from the products we create to the care and expertise we bring to our work. Whether you’re in R&D, manufacturing, customer care, or any of the corporate functions, your contributions make a direct impact on the health of pets everywhere. We’re also deeply committed to the growth and development of our associates, offering opportunities to learn, innovate, and make a difference every day.
- Job Type: varies
- Level: mid-level
- Travel: varies
- Average Salary: $63K-$96K
Success Profile
What makes a successful Data & Analytics Associate Product Manager, North America at Royal Canin? We look for the right mix of the following traits when speaking with you.
- Analytical
- Curious
- Efficient
- Responsible
- Results-driven
- Team player
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Purpose
Connect your passion for pets to the purpose: A Better World For Pets
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Health & Wellbeing
A comprehensive focus on your individual health & wellbeing
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Inclusion
A place where you can belong and be yourself
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Career development
Professional learning offerings, annual personal development plans, Mars University
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Attractive total rewards
Your financial wellbeing through a competitve salary and bonus plan
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Focus on sustainability
We invest in you so you can make a better world
What I love most about Royal Canin is how pet-centric we are—everything we do revolves around improving the lives of pets. It’s not just about creating high-quality products; it’s about living our purpose every day. At the same time, Royal Canin invests in us as associates, helping us grow, develop our skills, and find real meaning in our work. It’s inspiring to be part of a global team that prioritizes both pet health and personal development.
Christina Sermak-Frankowski People & Organization Director, Learning & Culture
The Data & Analytics Associate Product Manager, North America will manage Data and Analytics roadmap delivery for the Value Chain Operations (VCO: Manufacturing, Fulfillment, and Procurement) solution portfolio and the Finance solution portfolio in the North America region. Starting with key business problems and/or future capability needs, this role will interface with market, regional, and global stakeholders, as well as functional experts, to build and deploy analytics products that create business value and advance the Royal Canin digital agenda.
What are we looking for?
- 3-5 years of experience in Manufacturing, Fulfillment, Procurement,or Finance operations or product management
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field
- Understanding of product management principles;i.e. Agile and Lean methodologies, product lifecycles, backlog management.
- Proven record of facilitating teams toidentify problems to solve, ideatesolutions, and bringing possibilities to life
- Strength in business-to-science translation,with experience growing partnershipsbetween business and technology teams
- Familiarity with product analytics tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Amplitude), and backlog management software (e.g.Azure DevOps, JIRA, Asana)
- Analytics foundation – knowledgeable in both operations research and the data science domain
- Highly Preferred: Practical experience in a factory environment, in logisticsand inventory management, or in financial planning & analysis
- Preferred: Professional certification in product management (e.g., Pragmatic Institute, AIPMM, or similar)
- Experience in delivery management of analytical products, or awareness of the drivers of complexity within delivery
- Fluent in English
- Analytical Problem Solving
- Product Management Fundamentals
- Preferred: Ability to travel up to 25%
This role requires a balance of:
- Strategic inquiry to identify the underlying needs of VCO and Financestakeholders and influence the organization to embrace new methods and technologies.
- Technical curiosity to identify and apply art-of-the-possible with data, analyticsand AI forVCO and Finance.This role must focus on “problems not tools” in an unbiased way,helping to determinewhen to evolve a Product’s capabilities versus driving scaling as-is.
- Relationship building topartner effectively with customers and experts inManufacturing, Fulfillment, and Procurement, and Finance, with other D&A and Digital Technology members, and with end users to ensure products deliver on adoption and sustained business value.
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Act as a D&A contact for stakeholders across the Royal CaninNorth America VCO and Finance teams. Help positionRoyal Canin D&A as thevalue driver for delivering the analyticalinsights required to meetVCO and Finance goals.
- Convert problems into a Product Vision; understand the current process, pain points, user personas, and existing tooling to synthesize Product(s)that address the business need.
- Work with the Senior Product Manager(s) to manage the roadmap of highest-impact analytical product areas.
- Help quality control all D&A use cases within VCO and Finance to ensure they create tangible value whilst aligning to the Royal Canin global, regional, and local strategies.
- Manage a backlog of Epics that iteratively addresses the problem using the Agile framework, prioritizing them into Releases (either individually or as part of a team).
- Partner with the Delivery& Datafunctionswithin D&A to scope and advocate for the resources, technologies, and data assetsrequiredto deliver each release. Ensure this is aligned to stakeholder and regional priorities.
- Coordinate the activities of a squad of technical resources (associate & 3rd party)whowill build and deploy Product releases.
- Continually evaluate solution’s ability to solve the problem through adoption and other value creation indicators
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
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