Product Manager - Order Management & Pricing

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS 

• Understand Sherwin Williams competition, customer analysis, market research and competitive analysis skills to complete these tasks to support the objectives of the Global Transformation Office 
• Drive the product strategy across core business and enterprise applications working closely with the business leadership and process managers. 
• Develops the business case for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures in coordination with Value Management and business leadership. 
• Align and define product vision and roadmaps, program backlog, establish feature acceptance criteria while driving objectives in alignment to overall SW strategy. 
• Aligns closely with the end-user requirements to understand needs. Ensures product feature set fits needs and requirements in an efficient manner.
• Collaborate with process and program teams to define the product roadmaps, market positioning, community user groups, and other program initiatives.
• Coordinate aspects of development for multiple projects including specifications, scope, and requirements within key business processes (Order to Cash, Source to Pay, Planning/Manufacturing/Inventory, Acquire to Retire, and Record to Report) 
• Lead product owners and partner with technical personnel to ensure our products and services meet the needs of the community.
• Closely collaborate with the product owners to understand the development of business need user-stories, support inter-team dependencies, and help them identify/escalate issues at the earliest.
• Lead product owners to build strong practices throughout the organization and Global Transformation Office
• Develop solutions to product and customer issues by collaborating across regions, process areas, and functions.
• Support the Global Transformation Office Product function through effective performance management, career development, training, continuous process improvements.

FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required:

•  Bachelor’s degree in a technical- or business-related field

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• 10+ years of product management or equivalent project management experience
• 10+ years leading delivery of technology solutions including business-specific and enterprise applications in alignment with business objectives.
• 5+ years of managing projects.
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience with end-to-end product delivery.
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
• Experience of managing multiple teams and stakeholders 
• New Product Development / Stage Gate process experience

Preferred:

• Prior knowledge of key process and technical products within Supply Chain – Order Management & Pricing 
• Supervisory experience or team responsibility 
• 1+ delivering product-based or Agile-based solutions. 
• 1+ years of experience implementing and utilizing agile methodologies for development in a technology organization. 
• Experience in agile project environments. 
• Experience in transformational projects or enterprise level initiatives. 
• Experience in enterprise level solutioning through data driven insights.
• Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Prior product management experience and leading teams effectively
• Knowledge of SW legacy best practices in Order Mgmt & Pricing 
• Proven ability to suggest improvements to end to end Order Mgmt processes.
• Demonstrate accurate inventory management & fulfillment knowledge.
• Proven ability to optimize end to end order fulfillment.
• Experience in Order MGMT & Pricing Applications - Systems and key Integrations preferred.
• Ability to examine/implement real-time order tracking.
• Proven leadership in change mgmt across order fulfillment spaces
• Supply Chain Expertise from Mfg Plan to Schedule to Customer Delivery
• Ability to drive change in Customer/Order Mgmt Systems & Process space.

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