Director, Digital Products & Business Partner

Position Overview

The Digital Product & Business Partner Director serves as the strategic interface between business stakeholders and Digital & IT organization. This role is responsible for establishing a trusted relationship with key business stakeholders, contributing to business strategy and transformation, shaping digital & IT strategy and roadmap aligned with business strategy, driving and ensuring the successful delivery of digital solutions, driving adoption and value realization of digital solutions, and being accountable for digital & IT investment and values.

Position Objectives

· Team Leadership & Development: Lead and build a high-performance Digital BP & Product Manager teams capable of both formulating strategies and delivering tangible value through execution.

· Business Strategy Alignment: Translate business strategy into digital & IT strategy, roadmap, solution design and delivery, ensuring IT strategy is highly aligned with China market business objectives.

· Executive Communication: Maintain regular communication with executive leadership, provide clear and structured updates, and drive strategic decisions at executive level.   

· Demand Management & Prioritization: Oversee the business demand intake, establish a prioritization mechanism, and ensure resources are invested in the highest-value demands.

· Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the strategic interface between IT and business, embed into business and contribute to business strategy, drive digital priority alignments and the smooth implementation in collaborating with cross-functional business teams.   

· Product Planning & Delivery: Lead full product lifecycle management and be accountable for product commercial outcomes.

· Value Measurement & Reporting: Establish the value measurement mechanism for Digital & IT investments, regularly report value realization to CIO and business leadership.  

· Process Optimization: Introduce industry best practices, continuously optimize collaboration processes, and improve business satisfaction.

Core Competencies

· Business Acumen: Deep understanding of FMCG business models and industry trends, with the ability to solve problems from a business perspective.

· Leadership & Management: Excellent team motivation and management skills, capable of leading the team to achieve challenging goals.

· Strategic Thinking: Forward-thinking strategic planning ability to align visions & strategy and transform strategy & vision into executable plans.

· Communication & Influence: Outstanding cross-level communication skills to effectively drive alignments and influence decisions.

· Project & Product Experience: Familiar with agile development and experienced in managing complex digital projects and full product lifecycles.

· Change Management: Ability to drive business changes and transformation leveraging digital solutions, and manage the resistance to the changes. 

· Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree or above, 10+ years of IT experience, 5+ years of team management experience; FMCG background

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· Language: Excellent communication skills in both Chinese and English, capable of working in an international environment.

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience in digital transformation within the FMCG industry.

· Experience in building digital platforms from 0 to 1 in a large-scale company

· Experience in applying innovative technologies (e.g., AI, Big Data, IoT) in FMCG industry