Data Product Expert - Horizon

**Job title: Data Product Expert - Horizon** **Location: Hyderabad** **Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.** **Our mission is to bring health in people's hands by making self-care as simple as it should be for over half a billion consumers worldwide.** **At the core of this mission is our 100+ loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites, and four specialized science and innovation development centers.** **Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world's most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale, and Mucosolvan.** **B Corp certified in multiple markets, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.** **Find out more about our mission to bring health in your hands at www.opella.com** **About the job:** **The Digital Data, AI & Analytics team at Opella drives transformation through data-driven decision-making, advanced analytics, and AI-powered solutions. Within this team, the Master Data, Data Governance & Market Data group ensures robust data practices, governance, and actionable insights to support strategic business decisions across the organization.** **POSITION OVERVIEW:** * **The Product Owner – Horizon is responsible for the end-to-end execution and delivery of Horizon as a senior leadership web application.** * **This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role. The Product Owner will own backlog, sprint execution, stakeholder alignment, and release quality, ensuring Horizon is delivered on time, within budget, with high usability, and continuous improvement.** * **The role requires strong discipline in breaking down ambiguous leadership needs into clear, buildable requirements, and driving teams to deliver consistently in an Agile environment.** * **The Product Owner – Horizon will be responsible for driving the vision, roadmap, and delivery of Horizon, Opella’s next-generation Progressive Web App for Opella CEO, Executive Committee and Senior Leadership, while also supporting and enhancing Sinergi as an enterprise analytics interface (including conversational and BI-driven capabilities).** * **Horizon is not a reporting tool. It is a decision cockpit, which focuses on clarity, narrative, and speed.** * **This role requires strong product thinking, executive empathy, and the ability to translate complex, multi-dimensional business inputs into simple, high-impact user experiences.** **The Product Owner will ensure Horizon delivers:** * **Clarity over complexity (what matters, not everything)** * **Narrative over raw data (so what, now what)** * **Speed to insight (minutes, not hours or days)** * **Consistency across markets and functions** * **This role sits at the intersection of business, data, and technology, owning product strategy and execution to enable intuitive, scalable, and insight-driven experiences for global and local stakeholders. The Product Owner will work closely with Opella Senior Leadership, data teams, BI teams, and business users to create high-impact product capabilities.** **Main responsibilities:** * **Backlog Ownership & Sprint Execution** * **Own and manage the Horizon product backlog with well-defined, prioritized user stories** * **Translate leadership and business needs into clear acceptance criteria and actionable tickets** * **Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives** * **Ensure sprint commitments are realistic and consistently delivered** * **undefined** **Delivery Management** * **Drive end-to-end delivery across design, engineering, and data teams** * **Track progress, identify risks/blockers early, and proactively resolve them** * **Ensure high-quality releases with strong focus on usability, performance, and stability** * **Maintain clear visibility of delivery status, timelines, and dependencies** * **Own and manage the Horizon backlog with a sharp focus on business impact and usability** * **Work closely with engineering, design, and data teams to deliver a high-quality, responsive web application** * **Lead Agile ceremonies and ensure timely, iterative releases** * **Balance speed with polish; this is a high-visibility product for leadership** * **Requirement Structuring & Clarity** * **Break down complex, ambiguous requirements into simple, structured product increments** * **Define user flows, screen-level requirements, and interaction logic in detail** * **Work closely with designers to ensure requirements translate into clean, intuitive UX** * **Avoid over-engineering—focus on MVP-first, iterative delivery** * **undefined** **Stakeholder Coordination (Execution-Focused)** * **Act as the single point of contact between business stakeholders and delivery teams** * **Gather inputs, clarify requirements, and manage expectations on scope and timelines** * **Ensure fast turnaround on feedback and incorporate it into subsequent sprints** * **Drive alignment without slowing down delivery** * **undefined** **Release & Adoption Management** * **Plan and manage releases, including UAT, sign-offs, and production deployment** * **Ensure readiness of features before release (tested, validated, documented)** * **Support rollout and adoption by ensuring the product is intuitive and reliable** * **Continuously collect user feedback and feed it into backlog prioritization** * **undefined** * **Define and Drive the Horizon Vision** * **Own Horizon as a leadership-facing product, ensuring it meets the needs of senior executives (Global & Regional)** * **Define what an “ideal executive experience” looks like—what decisions need to be enabled, what signals matter, and how they should be presented** * **Establish guiding principles: simplicity, relevance, speed, and actionability** * **undefined** **Design a Best-in-Class Executive Experience** * **Translate complex business inputs into clean, intuitive, and minimalistic UI/UX** * **Define how insights are structured: performance summaries, exception-based views, trend signals, and forward-looking indicators** * **Ensure the product answers key leadership questions instantly (e.g., “What’s changing?”, “Where do I need to act?”, “What’s the risk?”)** * **Drive consistency in how metrics, visuals, and narratives are presented across the platform** * **undefined** **Stakeholder Engagement (Senior Leadership Focus)** * **Engage directly with senior stakeholders to gather feedback and refine the product experience** * **Act as a translator between executives and delivery teams—distilling vague needs into clear product requirements** * **Drive alignment across functions to ensure Horizon reflects a single, consistent view of the business** * **undefined** **Adoption & Value Realization** * **Drive adoption of Horizon as the default platform for leadership reviews and decision-making** * **Continuously measure product effectiveness (usage, decision speed, stakeholder satisfaction)** * **Iterate based on feedback to ensure sustained relevance and impact** **About you:** **Experience:** * **Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related fields** * **6–10+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or Agile delivery roles** * **Proven experience delivering web-based products or dashboards in Agile environments** * **Strong track record of managing backlogs, sprints, and cross-functional delivery** * **Experience working with global stakeholders across time zones** * **Technical & Functional Skills:** * **Technical fluency (modern app stack):** * **Comfortable working with and driving delivery across modern application architectures, including:** * **Frontend frameworks such as React / React Native** * **Backend technologies such as Node.js** * **API paradigms such as GraphQL and REST** * **Mobile-first and responsive web application design principles** * **Mobile-first product mindset: Understands constraints and best practices of mobile app development (performance, responsiveness, usability) and can translate them into product requirements** * **Strong experience with Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps)** * **Solid understanding of web application development lifecycle** * **Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI)** * **Solid understanding of data structures and APIs** * **Exposure to AI/ GenAI-enabled features is a plus** * **Experience working in or with global/ regional organizations, across multiple markets and time zones.** **SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:** * **Expertise in Secondary Market Research methodologies.** * **Business-savvy communicator: able to explain complex data concepts in simple, story-driven language.** * **Stakeholder management: comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders at Global, Regional and Local levels.** * **Problem-solving mindset: structured, curious and resilient in the face of ambiguity. High attention to detail and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.** * **Collaboration: works effectively with Product Owners, data engineers, BI developers and functional teams.** * **Ownership: proactive, accountable and focused on outcomes and adoption, not just deliverables. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.** * **SPECIAL WORKING CONDITIONS:** *  **Occasional travel to global/ regional offices as required.** **Why us?** **At Opella, you will enjoy doing challenging, purposeful work, empowered to develop consumer brands with passion and creativity. This is your chance to grow new skills and be part of a bold, collaborative, and inclusive culture where people can thrive and be at their best every day.** **We Are Challengers.** **We are dedicated to making self-care as simple as it should be. That starts with our culture. We are challengers by nature, and this is how we do things:** **All In Together: We keep each other honest and have each other's backs.** **Courageous: We break boundaries and take thoughtful risks with creativity.** **Outcome-Obsessed: We are personally accountable, driving sustainable impact and results with integrity.** **Radically Simple: We strive to make things simple for us and simple for consumers, as it should be.** **Join us on our mission. Health. In your hands.** **www.opella.com/en/careers**