AB InBev GCC was incorporated in 2014 as a strategic partner for Anheuser-Busch InBev. The center leverages the power of data and analytics to drive growth for critical business functions such as operations, finance, people, and technology. The teams are transforming Operations through Tech and Analytics.
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1. PURPOSE OF ROLE
- Own and steer the
global product vision, strategy, and roadmap
, ensuring alignment with business priorities across Zones, Markets, and Global Functions. - Lead
cross-zone engagement
, collaborating with Zone Presidents, Zone Commercial Directors, Process Leads, and market teams to capture needs, harmonize requirements, and ensure global consistency. - Drive
executive-level stakeholder management
, securing CXO and Global LT sign-offs, aligning expectations, and facilitating strategic decision-making. - Act as the
central liaison
between global business stakeholders and cross-functional development teams, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and seamless communication. - Maximize product value by
prioritizing global features, capabilities, and enhancements
based on business impact, scalability, ROI, and user experience outcomes. - Ensure the product delivers
high-quality, compliant, and globally scalable solutions
, meeting performance, security, and user-centric design standards. - Translate diverse zone-level and market-level business needs into
clear, actionable, and globally aligned requirements
, guiding the development team end-to-end. - Champion a
global user experience mindset
, driving continuous innovation, capability harmonization, and adoption across all zones. - Manage global risks, dependencies, governance, and change impacts to ensure smooth deployment, adoption, and sustained business impact across the product ecosystem.
2. KEY TASKS AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Own and manage the
global product backlog
, ensuring clarity, structured prioritization, and full alignment with strategic and cross-zone objectives. - Define comprehensive user stories, acceptance criteria, and
success metrics
for all global features and enhancements. - Collaborate closely with engineering, design, data, and cross-functional partners to ensure
timely, high-quality product releases
. - Lead core Agile ceremoniesincluding sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviewsdriving alignment and execution across distributed teams.
- Proactively communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and critical decisions to leadership, CXOs, and global stakeholders.
- Engage continuously with zone and market stakeholders to gather requirements, manage expectations, and ensure transparent communication.
- Ensure teams across geographies are fully aligned to business priorities, timelines, and global deployment plans.
- Track and report against
KPIs, delivery milestones, and project health
, enabling data-driven decision-making. - Monitor product adoption and performance using data, user feedback, and market insights, driving iteration, optimization, and continuous improvement.
- Manage competing priorities and evolving timelines across phases, zones, and international markets, ensuring consistent delivery and governance.
3. BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Challenges
- Operating a global product with diverse stakeholders, multiple time zones, and varied data and technology ecosystems.
- Balancing technical architecture, business expectations, and aggressive timelines across multi-phase deployments.
- Driving cross-functional alignment and decision-making in a fast-paced, evolving, and often ambiguous problem space.
- Managing change, dependencies, and integration across teams such as Product, Engineering, Data Science, UX, and Market/Zone stakeholders.
Evaluation Criteria
- Timely delivery and quality fulfillment of sprint goals, release targets, and major project milestones.
- Consistent application of Agile ways of working, with measurable improvements in team velocity, burndown patterns, and sprint discipline.
- High stakeholder satisfaction driven by strong communication, transparency, and rapid issue resolution.
- Effective identification, mitigation, and escalation of risks and blockers across global teams.
- Improved coordination, throughput, and delivery across Data Science, Visualization, Engineering, and Functional workstreams.
4. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS
Educational Attainment:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
- Certified Product Owner preferred.
Experience Required:
- 6+ years of project/program management experience with at least 3 years in Agile environments.
- Proven experience in managing cross-functional data/tech teams.
- Global project experience with multi-region stakeholder coordination is a plus.
IT Skills:
- Proficiency in project management tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, ClickUp, Trello).
- Good understanding of Data Science, BI tools (Power BI), and cloud platforms (Azure).
Technical Competencies:
Essential:
- Agile Project Management
- User Story & Requirement Gathering
- Product Backlog Management Tools
- Data Analysis & Interpretation
- Cross-Functional Coordination
Desirable:
- Strong communicator
- High ownership and accountability
- Organized and detail-oriented
- Problem-solver under pressure
- Confident in working across global cultures
And above all of this, an undying love for beer!
We dream big to create future with more cheers.
