Product Owner, Supply Chain – Procurement

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey.

📋 Description

• Manage, uphold, and prioritize the product backlog for supply chain, procurement, and associated finance capabilities.

• Articulate customer and business challenges, desired outcomes, success metrics, epics, user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria, and incremental release strategies.

• Balance customer value, business impact, technical feasibility, risk management, compliance requirements, and delivery schedules.

• Establish and track KPIs for adoption, process efficiency, procurement compliance, spend visibility, inventory precision, and user satisfaction.

• Lead discovery and requirements-gathering workshops with stakeholders from procurement, supply chain, finance, warehouse, sales, customer service, and IT.

• Grasp current-state workflows, pain points, and control requirements throughout procure-to-pay and connected order-to-cash processes.

• Facilitate the design of future-state processes, identify gaps and dependencies, document decisions, and align scope and priorities.

• Spot opportunities for enhancements through SAP-enabled workflow improvement, process simplification, automation, analytics, and AI solutions.

• Collaborate with SAP functional consultants, engineers, QA, integration teams, data teams, and business process owners.

• Define integration requirements across SAP S/4HANA MM, SD, FI/CO, warehouse, tax, payment, logistics, customer, supplier, and third-party systems.

• Validate end-to-end business and accounting effects across requisition-to-payment, inventory, sales-order-to-billing, and financial reporting processes.

• Lead or engage in Agile ceremonies such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.

• Prioritize defects, enhancements, and change requests.

• Assist with master-data readiness, data migration, testing, cutover planning, release readiness, hypercare, and post-launch stabilization.

• Coordinate business testing efforts, including test scenarios, test data, acceptance criteria, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, defect triage, and business sign-off.

• Convey product strategy, roadmap priorities, progress, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Maintain product documentation, business-process materials, requirements, decisions, and release information in Confluence.

• Utilize Jira and Slack to manage backlog transparency, delivery workflow, stakeholder communication, and issue resolution.

• Support change management initiatives through training materials, process documentation, release communications, demonstrations, and adoption feedback.

• Foster relationships across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Technology, and external implementation partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Finance, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field of experience.

• Over 3 years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, SAP functional delivery professional, or in a similar capacity.

• Proven experience in owning and prioritizing a product backlog in an Agile delivery context.

• Experience delivering SAP S/4HANA procure-to-pay, materials management, inventory, finance integration, or other related enterprise capabilities.

• In-depth understanding of procurement processes, including requisitioning, purchasing, approvals, receiving, inventory, invoice verification, supplier management, and payment workflows.

• Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA MM and FI/CO integration concepts.

• Knowledge of SAP SD and order-to-cash processes is preferred.

• Experience in supporting SAP implementations, including testing, data migration, cutover, or post-go-live stabilization.

• Experience collaborating with engineering, QA, design, data, integration, and SAP functional teams.

• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Exceptional ability to compose clear user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and business requirements.

• Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.

• Highly detail-oriented with outstanding organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving abilities.

• Strong judgment in managing priorities, resources, risks, dependencies, and delivery trade-offs.

• Proficient in using Jira, Confluence, and Slack.

• Experience with SAP SD configuration and integration concepts is preferred.

• Familiarity with SAP MM configuration concepts is preferred.

• Experience in the media or entertainment sector is preferred.

• Familiarity with automation, analytics, or AI capabilities is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• Retirement plans.

• Paid time off.

• Remote work options.

• Equal employment opportunity protections.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.