SAP ProductOwner-C2C/W2

Job Description

The client uses data from 17 ERP systems, out of which some are SAP, and some are non-standard ERPs. As part of the client's data and digital transformation, these ERP systems will migrate into one single SAP S/4 HANA (internally named OneS4), along with their data and processes.

This capabilities product owner position will be responsible for working with business stakeholders from all supply chain areas- Plan, Source, deliver, warehouse, quality etc to verify requirements and co-ordinate internal DTO activities for dashboard builds. This includes helping with the intake and report rationalization process, attending scrum calls and managing the product backlog, working with BA's to create user stories and update existing L2 data models with OneS4 data. They will communicate with business SMEs, partnering with data asset BA's and reporting development team for report build and deployment. They might also be involved in mapping the target design with source tables, data ingestion validation, data curation strategy and target table update. The PO will be responsible to maintain the Jira format and board as per requirements and for helping create JIRA stories for the development team and may need to interact with business/project teams for requirements clarification.

Key Responsibilities

Business:

• Deeply understand business goals and strategies, as well as operational context and processes
• Gather, analyze, document, and validate the needs of business stakeholders. Work with business SME's to document business user requirements
• Maintain Jira themes, epics and user stories, manage scrum calls, prioritize backlog.
• Provide regular, timely, transparent communication on progress to capabilities teams.
• Ensure business solutions are deployed, fully embedded into ways of working, and constantly improved to address changing business needs and transform and mature our business.
• Work closely with data asset and employee experience teams for report builds.

Technical-

• Identify requirements (if not already provided) and business functionality and KPIs, identify source and target tables.
• Perform a high-level analysis of the reports to be built, maintain design documentation and user stories.
• Responsible for identifying and curating L2 data assets for OneS4 reporting.
• Check if these entities are available in Digital Core
  • Sometimes the entities might be available, but this source might not be curated.
  • Sometimes the entities might be available, but they might be lacking the necessary columns.
  • At times the entity might have to be curated as a new data asset
• Using the above high-level assessment, provide
  • Documentation of the curation requirements possibly with support from Business Analysts/Developers [code analysis]
• Work with data asset teams to model the data requirements into existing/new data assets
• Work with Business Owners for UAT
• Perform adhoc analysis for capabilities as needed

Qualifications

Business Skills-

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required. Specialization in supply chain with experience in data engineering, data science or advanced analytics fields is strongly preferred. APO or OMP experience preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of business experience with at least 2 years of Supply Chain, IT or other relevant functional experience required.
• Outstanding stakeholder management experience, superior influencing, and collaboration skills are required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required
• Strong understanding and working experience utilizing design-thinking best practices empathy, requirements definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing to deliver digital products and experiences is required.
• Ability to work with both technical and non-technical team members is required.
• Strong critical thinking, with outstanding analytical, influencing, and interpersonal skills are required.
• Experience working in or with a complex global organization spanning across functions is preferred.

Project Management-

• Experience with Agile product development methodology is required.
• Maintaining Jira boards and epics
• Experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating the needs of the business stakeholders is required.
• Experience writing user stories, managing scrum calls, prioritizing backlog, etc. is required.

Technical skills-

• Experience in working with ERP (SAP)- APO or OMP experience, Tableau, Alteryx, SQL, or other data and analytics tools is preferred. Experience in SQL [legacy Hadoop analysis] Databricks/Synapse predominantly and Azure stack [minimum ability to set up and do basic querying].
• Knowledge of ERP [SAP/JDE] databases/tables is good to have.
• Strong digital product management experience including experience in building / managing data and analytics platforms, data science / advanced analytics / intelligent automation solutions is preferred.
• Scrum Alliance certification is preferred (e.g., Product Owner, Developer, ScrumMaster), Project Planning and JIRA