Director, Product Management, Supplier Risk Management

Responsibilities

• Chart the course for your product and define and prioritize its features
• Understand the market trends & client needs in Direct Procurement, competitive landscape carefully and with the in-depth understanding of your product
• Understand the Supply Chain Planning, Supply Chain Execution and Supplier Relationship Management domains
• Act as a domain expert and advocate/implements the best practices with the development team
• Understand the individual customer requirements carefully and create the functional specifications, use cases, mock-ups and other documents required for development
• Make sure that the solution that is designed and developed effectively meets the business objectives of the end users
• Work with UX team to create a pleasant & intuitive user experience
• Validate the newly developed features and their impact on existing features
• Experience working in an Agile Development environment to build product features and capabilities
• Python / JavaScript / SQL experience
• Ability to use o9 Platform to make configuration changes to the existing product screens / workflows
• Demonstrate these new features to key stakeholders and get their feedback
• Clearly articulate product innovations & differentiators to the stakeholders
• Provide product training to internal and external departments
• Support on-going customer deployments by advising implementation consultants on the best practices and providing fixes for product gaps in a timely manner
• Act as an SME and reviews the training material and product documentation
• Help the sales and pre-sales teams to support RFPs, RFQs, ongoing implementations and customer demos (preparation / delivery)
• Able to manage a team of people - motivating the team and driving efficiency and performance
• Able to resolve people s conflicts and inspire them to perform at their highest levels

Qualifications

• Full Time Bachelor s/Master s Degree in Engineering or Masters in Business Administration
• 8-10 years of experience in Product Management, Business Analysis
• Excellent understanding of the supply chain planning & Direct Material Procurement domain
• Excellent English language skills, both verbal and written
• A good leader who can communicate the project plans and status of projects effectively
• A self-motivated person who can work calmly under pressure and meet deadlines
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and influencing skills, with proven ability to take initiatives
• Experience working within Cloud, SaaS, AI/ML applications will be an added advantage
• Experience working with the SRM vendors, like Coupa, e2Open, One Networks, ARIBA, etc will be considered an advantage