Warehouse Product Manager

Reporting to our Business Execution Domain team in Cincinnati or New Jersey you will Identify the right product/features to maximize Value Warehouse departments and partners. Anticipate usage evolution. Maintain a close relationship with F&L team members (including existing and potential users).
Contacts:
•    GPC/RPC Distribution (Warehouse), Local Warehouse and Distribution teams and organizations.
•    External IT vendors, editors, service providers
•    Product Designers, Products Managers, Platform managers, Domain Managers, Architects, APS Execution leads

You will:
•    Define and maintain the Warehouse product vision & road-map
•    Manage, Refines and prioritizes the product backlog on the long run
•    Contribute to value case definition, product team orchestration and change management to users and partners

Strategy - Contribution to IT Master Plan
•    Interact with Execution Platform manager and architects to translate Business capabilities into solution capabilities relevant for Warehouse responsibilities. Define changes for existing products and new products needed
•    Define Product vision and road map for Warehouse tasks, consistent with Platform road map.
•    Ensure Product road map agreement on business/IM&T strategy & priorities.
•    Contribute to Execution Platform Portfolio definition
Project Delivery
•    Identify existing and potential Business stakeholders and ensure Business Mobilization on projects affecting Warehouse function.
•    Contribute to the scoping exercise by collecting requirements, proposing best on-market / technology trends and assessing impacts on Warehouse applications and their road map.
•    Challenge requirements to make sure the validated priorities will maximize the value for Warehouse function and are following the product road map.
•    Drive/Contribute to the definition and scoring of value case with the expected benefits (+ Goal & essential success factors) for projects affecting Warehouse function
•    Work with necessary SMEs and partners (Platform Managers, Product Managers, Architects, Change Lead, QC Lead, Designers, Data Scientists …) to provide ranged estimate, assess feasibility - timeline - complexity - - risk - resource needs for the identified scenarios
•    Lead use case definition and solution scenario definition and selection
•    Define the product team for Warehouse projects (to have as much as possible a dedicated team with a Developer, a Designer, and a Tester). Support project product teams during the project life cycle.
•    Contribute to retrospectives and demos on Warehouse Applications
•    Contribute to change management activities, from innovation phases till deployment to Production, including handover to operations and Support team
Permanent Activities (out of projects)
•    Support Product Designers activities and ensure collaboration and knowledge transfer between them.
•    Manage product backlog creation, organization and prioritization and mapping out the dependencies with ongoing or future projects
•    Ensure consistency between different applications for the Warehouse user groups
•    Coordinate with the Platform Manager the prioritization of regional and small demands; and organize assessment
•    Ensure transparency and communication of the Product vision, backlog and road map to the product team, partners and users
•    Search for valuable product evolution, through animation of Product user group Network or interaction with Architects, or explorations based on users understanding and market / technology trends. Encourage product designers to search for improvement ideas.
•    Determine, Measures And Shares Product benefits & adoption Indicators to contribute to change management
•    Contribute to the continuous improvement of applications and products in Warehouse. Encourage product designers to search for improvement ideas.
•    Model and map our processes related to the Logistics function
•    Contribute to build Release Plan and Communicate it to the Warehouse partners
•    Is Responsible for Warehouse application documentation (creation and maintenance)
•    Contribute to Communities of Practices around product management

You?

Education / Primary Qualification:
•    Bachelor's degree in computer engineering and/or business school or equivalent is an advantage
Professional experience:
•    5+ years working in IT environment
•    5+ SAP experience (MM SD LE WM HUM)
•    2+ years experience in Business Process Design / Modelling
•    Workshop animation (design sprints, design thinking, creative problem solving) is an advantage
•    Agile environment EXPERIENCE is a plus

Education / Primary Qualification:
•    Bachelor's degree in computer engineering and/or business school or equivalent is an advantage
Professional experience:
•    5+ years working in IT environment
•    5+ SAP experience (MM SD LE WM HUM)
•    2+ years experience in Business Process Design / Modelling
•    Workshop animation (design sprints, design thinking, creative problem solving) is an advantage
•    Agile environment EXPERIENCE is a plus
 

Us:
Great career development opportunities. 
Comprehensive and customizable healthcare plans. 
PTO and family leave. Retirement plans. 
Tuition Reimbursement program.
High matching 401k.