ITPM SCM retail

Job Description Role ITPM SCM Retail Consultant ( MM /SD retail) Experience range 8-12 years Location- Pune EON Kharadi Work mode Hybrid JD/Requirements: Vodafone Product team is looking for a Senior IT product manager for supply chain who would be working with various teams like Process owners, Architecture team, Engineering team, Cross-functions, SI, etc. and would lead big transformation project across all SCM area and provide overall direction. The candidate should be SAP Subject Matter Expert and strategic leader, who can support on technical as well as process challenges, can act as product champion, define product vision, product strategy and product roadmap for products in the supply chain space. Should be capable of communicating and articulating product strategy to company leadership and set growth path for the products. Should be able to manage high performing team of product managers and guide/mentor them to build high quality SCM products that solves complex problems and deliver optimal solutions. What you'll do - You will develop and champion a product vision, product strategy and product roadmap for products in the supply chain space. You will present and clearly articulate product strategy to company leadership. - You will coach, guide and mentor high performing team of product managers to build supply chain products that solves complex problems. - You will work with multiple functions including Business and Operations across several geographical regions to build and evaluate business cases, cost & benefit cases to support product investment decisions. - You will partner with business teams, Engineering functions and third-party product teams to build innovative optimal solutions for next generation of problems in the supply chain space. - You will build and own scalable products/platforms that are multi-tenant and can be leveraged across geographies and business units. - Promotes product strategies and vision to senior leadership & other stakeholders. Drives Go-to-Market strategies to ensure adoption. - You will leverage data to make more informed product decisions and will influence the prioritization and design of complex solutions. - Qualified candidates will be able to navigate conflicting stakeholder priorities by making data-driven decisions using enterprise and end customer value as a guiding principle. - As part of demand-to-delivery cycle - ownership of the end-to-end demands/projects from requirements definition to business as usual. - Provide leadership and in-depth understanding of the solutions that support revenue and cost processes, harmonize business requirements through workshops, design, and testing activities, training materials, deployment, data cleansing, data mapping, and any data migration activities in the respective domain. - Provides subject matter expertise in all business-related activities and support the Implementation teams, Systems Integrators, Global Process Owners & Leads (GPO / GPL) and Share Service Organizations to deliver projects and programmes. - Validate Functional and technical Design provided by the System Integrator, able to discuss HL Architecture, support/guide operation teams or business stakeholders. - Demonstrates awareness of technical topics at a conceptual level, as well as the systems and data that enable major capabilities, and drives innovation. - As part of the product roadmap, he/she will analyse the content of quarterly release functionalities to ensure no regression and provide guidance to the business on the new functionalities. - Driving Customer/ Client Needs: Requires knowledge of: Customer and business problems, design thinking, dependencies and impacts on product processes/ways of working, journey mapping, process optimization, communication and influencing techniques. What you'll bring : - Extensive knowledge in supply chain management area with good hold on procurement and retail processes. - Contrasted technical & Functional experience and background in SAP as ERP. - SCM integration with Master Data (single materials, GL's, cost Objects, etc.) through MDG SAP module along with experience in data migration & integration would be a plus. - Experience as a product owner/manager, with proven capability in leading team - Experience in running large transformation projects/programs. - Strategic Business Acumen to develop, evaluate and implement proposed business cases - Concepts of First Principle, MVP, Whole Product, and Crossing the Chasm. - Prior experience of building data led optimization solutions is an added advantage - Effective communicator to act as an advisor to senior leadership and partners. - Flexible and adaptive in ambiguous environments - Management consulting experience along with strong/quick learning & decision-making skills.