IT Product Owner

The Fresh Market & You:

Our mission is to make everyday eating extraordinary for our guests. We create a warm, welcoming, memorable experience with exceptional, personal service. We're looking for a new team member who strives for excellence and brings positive energy, commitment, and a "can-do" attitude to work every day. We value teamwork and celebrate our successes as a team and will value your contribution!

Added Benefits for choosing The Fresh Market Team:

• Team member discount up to 40%
• Health, Dental & Vision insurance available for individual, spouse, partner, and family.
• 401K contribution and match for part-time and full-time team members.
• Personal time off and additional time off purchase plans available
• And much more!

About the Position:

The IT Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the business value of technology solutions within the merchandising and retail operations domain by owning the product vision, roadmap, and backlog, and serving as the single point of accountability for prioritization and value realization. This role partners closely with merchandising, pricing, supply chain, and store operations teams to translate business strategies into scalable, data-driven solutions, while acting as a domain subject-matter expert to ensure systems and processes drive sales, margin optimization, inventory productivity, and enhanced customer experience.

Success in this role will be measured by the consistent delivery of meaningful business value, such as sales growth, margin improvement, and pricing accuracy. This includes maintaining strong stakeholder satisfaction and alignment across merchandising and IT partners, ensuring backlogs and requirements are clear, well-defined, and delivery-ready. The role is also evaluated on predictability and timeliness of delivery, as well as the adoption, usability, and overall effectiveness of solutions once implemented.

What You'll Do:

• Define and manage the product vision, roadmap, and backlog aligned to merchandising and business strategy.
• Prioritize work to drive key outcomes such as pricing accuracy, promotions execution, assortment optimization, and margin improvement.
• Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements; translate them into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Serve as the merchandising domain expert across systems supporting item management, pricing, promotions, and inventory.
• Partner with merchandising, operations, and IT teams to align solutions with business needs and strategies.
• Lead backlog refinement, support sprint planning, and accept completed work based on defined criteria.
• Collaborate on release planning, dependencies, and risk management with delivery teams.
• Validate solutions to ensure they meet business requirements and deliver expected value.
• Facilitate stakeholder communication, workshops, and alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Use data and performance metrics to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

At a minimum, what you'll need:

• 5+ years of experience in Product Owner, Business Analyst, Business Systems, or IT Delivery roles.
• Strong experience in requirements elicitation, process mapping, and translating business needs into technical solutions.
• Proven experience working in Agile / Scrum environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with business and technical teams.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in retail, grocery, or multi-location environments with a strong emphasis on merchandising.
• Hands-on experience with merchandising systems (pricing, promotions, item management, assortment planning).
• Product Owner or Agile certification (CSPO, SAFe PO/PM) and/or Business Analysis certification (CBAP, CCBA).
• Familiarity with SaaS platforms, system integrations, and data-driven products.
• Experience working with POS, ERP, supply chain, or pricing optimization tools.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS: Consistent with applicable laws, TFM will make reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants and team members, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to TFM. This guiding principle applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring and job assignment, compensation, discipline, termination, and access to benefits and training.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy and related medical conditions, national origin, genetic information, uniformed service, veteran status, disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal or state law.

The statements in this job description are provided to describe the general nature and level of work expected in this role. While these statements include the essential functions of the job, they are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. As we work as a team, there may be times team members are needed to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities based on business needs.