About this role
Some of what you will do:
The Technical Product Owner supports complex HR and Finance systems initiatives across Staples Canada and owns selected finance applications, including Esker, AP Workflow, and Axonify, ensuring stability, optimization, and alignment with business needs. Reporting to the Manager, Corporate System, this role bridges business stakeholders, IT, and vendors to ensure requirements are clearly documented, traceable, and delivered through standard IT delivery processes. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, a strong critical thinker, and a fast learner with experience delivering complex enterprise projects.
Specifically, You Will:
- Act as a primary liaison between HR, Finance, IT, and vendors for assigned initiatives.
- Develop and maintain high-quality Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) using established standards.
- Create current-state and future-state process flow diagrams to support solution design and stakeholder alignment.
- Create data mapping documentation to support integrations, including source-to-target mappings and data validation rules.
- Collaborate with Integration, Middleware, and Architecture teams to support reliable data flow and shared understanding of system impacts.
- Lead business stakeholders through structured decision-making and requirement sign-off processes.
- Drive accountability across stakeholders and escalate when risks or decision delays threaten delivery.
Some of what you need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Information Systems.
- 5+ years of experience in business analysis, systems delivery, or product-related roles.
- Demonstrated experience supporting large, complex enterprise projects with multiple stakeholders and integrations.
- Strong experience producing BRDs, process flows, traceability matrix, and UAT-related documentation.
- Ability to learn new systems quickly and understand end-to-end process and data impacts.
- Understanding of system integrations, data flows, and enterprise IT concepts.
- Proficiency with Microsoft products (e.g. Excel, Powerpoint, Word)
- Familiarity with Smartsheet, Jira and diagramming tools (Visio/Lucidchart) is an asset.
Some of what you will get:
- Associate discount
- Health and Dental benefits
- RRSP/DPSP
- Performance bonuses
- Learning & Development programs
- And more…
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Other facts
About Staples Canada
At Staples Professional, we offer more than just office supplies. We cater to all of your business supplies needs.
As the business-to-business division of Staples Canada, we work with companies of 20 or more employees to develop customized programs, provide dedicated account management, and offer a complete assortment of products and services to meet business needs.
We’re the leading supplier in Canada, working with our business partners to provide office supplies, technology products, facility supplies, furniture, and business services.
“We make buying office products easy,” is not just a brand promise, it’s a commitment to our customers.
To accomplish this, we provide a customizable online ordering system, excellent customer care, easy-to-browse catalogue, next day delivery capabilities and a dedicated sales organization designed to meet the needs of every type and size of business.
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What you'll do
- The Technical Product Owner acts as a liaison between HR, Finance, IT, and vendors, ensuring that business requirements are documented and delivered. They also create process flow diagrams and data mapping documentation to support system integrations.
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