Job Description: Product Owner - ERP Reporting

12-month contract

Hybrid requirement - Summit NJ

As part of a company's data and digital transformation, multiple ERP systems will migrate into a single SAP S/4 HANA system, 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 coordinate internal activities for dashboard builds. This includes helping with intake and report rationalization processes, attending scrum calls, managing the product backlog, working with BAs to create user stories, and updating existing data models with new ERP data. The role involves communicating with business SMEs, partnering with data asset BAs and the reporting development team for report build and deployment. Responsibilities may also include mapping the target design with source tables, data ingestion validation, data curation strategy, and target table updates. The Product Owner will maintain the Jira format and board as per requirements and help create Jira stories for the development team, interacting 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 SMEs to document business user requirements.
• Maintain Jira themes, epics, and user stories, manage scrum calls, and prioritize the 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.
• Work closely with data asset and employee experience teams for report builds.

Technical:

• Identify requirements 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 data assets for ERP reporting.
• Check if these entities are available in the digital core.
• Sometimes the entities might be available but not curated or lacking necessary columns.
• At times, the entity might have to be curated as a new data asset.
• Provide documentation of the curation requirements, possibly with support from Business Analysts/Developers.
• Work with data asset teams to model the data requirements into existing/new data assets.
• Work with Business Owners for UAT.
• Perform ad hoc 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.
• 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 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 business stakeholders is required.
• Experience writing user stories, managing scrum calls, prioritizing backlog, etc. is required.

Technical Skills:

• Experience in working with ERP (SAP), Tableau, Alteryx, SQL, or other data and analytics tools is preferred.
• Knowledge of ERP database/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.

EEO Statement:

• Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.