Maru Saucedo

Performance-driven and growth-focused professional with extensive experience in product development, analysis, and design. Adept at incorporating continuous value to our products focused on our business strategy oriented on our customers' interests, the data analysis, and the market tendencies. Proficient in road mapping and prioritizing backlog.

Experienced in clearly developing user stories, story mapping, and other agile techniques for splitting, refining, and elaborating acceptance criteria. Expertise in liaising with system and solution architects to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the technical infrastructures. Competent communicator with excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to build collegial relationships with stakeholders, clients, market leaders, and senior management.

Lead Product Owner at Akkodis (2022-01 – Present)

Definition of new eWMS product (Client Inditex). Communication with stakeholders to define roadmap and appropriate prioritization. Performing Product Discovery, Inception with key users. Working with different scrum teams, UX/UI. Managing the backlog, giving vision of the expected product and objectives to obtain value. Currently implementing MVP for the stock process in the warehouse, for ecommerce orders/picking transfer.

• As achievements we have put into production a change in the packaging process in the cloud, implemented in 19 warehouses, 2804 packaging tables, 54 markets.

Product Manager at Meta4 by Cegid Company - HCM BU (2020-01 – 2022-12)

Design, develop and deploy roadmap with product management team. Coach and guide the team to define the product roadmap. Formulate strategies and negotiation positions by studying the integration of new business with the company's strategies and operations.

Assist in the definition and prioritization of the Backlog while liaising with Product Owners and Scrum Masters in the multi-tenant payroll product (Argentina/Chile/Colombia/Mexico/Portugal). Participation in Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning and Review). Analysis and tracking of KPIs for continuous improvement.

Definition of Objectives for the team and OKRs.

• Definition and impulse in agile transformation of 10 teams in the company.
• Creation of communities of practice for Product Owner and Scrum Master.
• Launch of a deduction module parameterized according to the laws of each country.

Latam R&D Development Manager at Meta4 (2009-01 – 2019-12)

Created and led teams for different Latin American countries, including Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia to accomplish productivity goals. Liaised with internal clients and product team, including project leaders, programmers, analysts, and testers to resolve customer consults. Crafted and executed product plans to ensure product completion within budgetary and time constraints.

• Successfully managed R&D Latam team consisting of 25 staff to improve work proficiency.
• Launched homogeneous and unified cloud solutions in the market for several countries in Latin America, with more than 90 clients using these solutions, from different areas, including banking, insurance, commerce, services, construction, health, and education.
• Released four payroll settlement standards to market to assist companies to digitise payroll processes.
• Managed team to certify in ISO 9001 and improve team operation performance.

SR Functional Software Engineer at Meta4 (2004-01 – 2009-12)

Led and coached development team of Mexico, Chile payroll, and HR management to ensure smooth workflow. Supported in the formulation of corporate modules to evaluate performance and assure maximum profitability.

• Contributed to the functional definition and coordination of changes within the corporate.
• Launch of a new performance evaluation module to enhance operational proficiency.

Project Leader at HDA Soft

Programmer Analyst at OSDE Binaria

Programmer Analyst at Telefónica from Argentina

Graduate in Project Manager – University of Belgrano

Systems Engineering – National University of La Matanza