Product Owner, Invoice to Pay

1. Develop new concepts for products and features in alignment with the objectives of the Global Transformation Office and assess the product's progress with input from Delivery Leads and Scrum Masters
2. Create user stories to share the Product's development and progress against business outcomes with Business Executives and the Leadership prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with the Global Transformation Office strategy
3. Responsible for strategic and technical execution (end-to-end) of business user stories and coordinate the Business Process Governance with the right stakeholders
4. Work with the Portfolio Product Leadership Team to set the agility strategy and funding requirements
5. Conduct / support formal performance reviews, celebrating hard work, individual and team success
6. Comprehend key business objectives and requirements of a product to make final decisions on functionality
7. Provide feedback to the work of the Product Manager to help them define a product differentiation strategy
8. Collaborate with cross-functional teams/processes to ensure a shared understanding of requirements for successful implementation, including program management, process management, data management, change management, and customers
9. Work in partnership with process owners to ensure the process is executed appropriately during project initiatives (Order to Cash, Source to Pay, Planning/Manufacturing/Inventory, Acquire to Retire, and Record to Report)
10. Understand what is important to the customer, data standards, process standards; collect feedback from users and incorporate user feedback to enhance product features and usability
11. Understand and support inter-team dependencies and escalate issues with the coordination of the product manager
12. Groom the product backlog, breaking down epics and estimating user stories
13. Track the progress towards the release of a product and keep the project and process teams apprised of the same
14. Communicate the product vision, roadmap and business intent to the Scrum/development team and ensure close collaboration with the development team
15. Coordinate with Scrum team, set and communicate release date and scope
16. Provide support to users of the ERP system, including troubleshooting problems, answering questions, and providing training
17. Deliver comprehensive product training that aligns with the organization's change management plan
18. Coordinates cross functionally with other Operations and Supply chain teams to ensure alignment.
19. Prepare and plan budgets to determine how to use company resources to launch new initiatives.
20. Standardize the logistic flow of jobs within the manufacturing workshops (launching & Gantt, work ticket, job tracking wide spectrum)
21. Work collaboratively with the Continuous improvement (CI) team to ensure processes are executed and improved.
22. Animate the local experts community (Key users, SMEs) to ensure the processes enrichment and the enhancements of the IT solution.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.

This position has a hybrid work schedule with three days in the office and the option for working remotely two days.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Six Sigma, Lean training

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• 5+ years in an agile delivery framework, or requirement development or Product Owner role.
• Prior Operations or Supply Chain experience
• Prior knowledge of key process and technical products within Planning, manufacturing and inventory
• Knowledge of ERP operating systems tools and databases
• Experience working with Oracle system
• Experience with, and strong understanding of Product Ownership for Agile Scrum Teams
• Proven ability to analyze complex cross functional business process and defining integrated user stories using industry standard techniques
• Experience working as part of an Agile Release Train in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Preferred:

• Understanding of Inventory management and Sherwin-Williams standards
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, tailoring to audiences
• Excellent critical thinking skills and demonstrated ability to proactively manage stakeholder expectations
• Ability to work in distributed teams and develop multi-level relationships
• Proven ability to manage dependencies and shifting priorities
• Ability to support multiple projects, facilitate meetings, and follow up action items
• Ability to lead and influence without direct authority
• Ability to utilize Continuous Improvement tools and processes
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Excellent communication skills to be able to influence peers and executives, as well as external partners
• Experience defining and leading the delivery of an API portfolio that is consumable by both internal and external parties.
• Strong work ethic demonstrated attention to detail, excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work both independently and within a close team environment.
• Ability to listen to and understand business needs.