Product Owner-Supply Chain/Merchandise Engineering

Casey's•Ankeny, IA

7h•$91,600 - $120,200•Onsite

About The Position

This role is the dedicated Product Owner for the systems and workflows that define, maintain, and govern Casey's merchandising data: item setup and attributes, pricing and promotions, planograms and assortment, compliance restrictions, and recipe master data. The Product Owner partners with a Product Manager who owns the broader merchandising data strategy, and is accountable for backlog health, stakeholder alignment, and the data quality that makes every downstream merchandising system work.

Requirements

Authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based immigration sponsorship now or in the future.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work-related experience is required.
At least five (5) years of direct work experience in product ownership.
Experience with collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet's, etc.).
Backlog & delivery discipline. You’ve spent time as a Product Owner — writing the stories engineers want to pick up, running a backlog that reflects the world as it is today (not last quarter), and keeping a scrum team out of the weeds. Jira and Confluence are second nature. Smartsheet's doesn’t scare you. SAFe or scrum cadence is familiar territory.
Stakeholder & business partnership. Comfortable saying “not this sprint” without burning a bridge. You can write an exec status update with confidence, run a business-readiness meeting without scripts, and translate between business goals and engineering reality without losing either side.
Technical & 3rd-party fluency. You've worked alongside engineers on a real retail or food service data platform — Oracle Retail, a PIM/MDM, a recipe management system and you understand how item attributes, pricing rules, assortment data, recipe formulations, and compliance restrictions flow through downstream systems. You know what "complete" looks like for a new item or recipe record and what it costs the business when it isn't.
The Casey’s fit. Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, including presentation and facilitation. Detail oriented and organized with the ability to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously. Passionate about the needs of the guest. Team oriented. Good at both planning and tactical execution. Collaborative and open to new ideas.

Nice To Haves

Certified in Scrum Product Ownership, a plus.
Bonus if you've navigated the intersection of promotional pricing, planogram tooling, allergen compliance, or regulatory labeling in a retail or food service environment.

Responsibilities

Item data accuracy and completeness. Own the item setup and maintenance workflow — from new item creation and attribute population through vendor-item relationships, pack hierarchy, and lifecycle management.
Pricing and promotion integrity. Support the systems that manage retail pricing, promotional events, and markdown execution — ensuring price changes and promo configurations reach stores accurately and on time.
Planogram and assortment management. Partner with Merchandisers and Buyers on the tools and workflows that govern where products are placed, what the assortment looks like by location, and how planogram data stays current as the catalog changes.
Third-party integration ownership. Drive day-to-day relationships with vendors holding their roadmaps, contracts, and bug queues accountable to ours.
Backlog & sprint health. Story decomposition, acceptance criteria, definition of done, and sprint hygiene — the discipline that lets a scrum team ship clean work every two weeks instead of fighting fires.
Stakeholder partnership. Intake, alignment, and clear status comms with business owners across Buyers, Planners, Merchandisers, and Finance. Run the readiness conversations that get a release across the line.
Launch readiness. Pre-release reviews, data validation signoffs, and the kind of defect triage that protects store operations and pricing integrity on day one of a new item launch, promotion, planogram reset, or recipe change.
Process consistency. Work closely with other product owners to ensure consistency in execution and responsibilities within the agile delivery teams. Perform other duties as assigned.