Product Owner - Planning

Product Owner - Planning at Sherwin-Williams summary:

Lead end-to-end product ownership for planning-related ERP and API products within the Enterprise Technology Group, translating business objectives into prioritized user stories and roadmaps while coordinating cross-functional stakeholders. Drive agile execution (Scrum/SAFe), backlog grooming, release planning, user training, and support for ERP/Blue Yonder/Oracle systems, partnering with supply chain, manufacturing, CI and process owners to standardize logistics and operational flows. Measure product progress, manage dependencies, and define API/product strategies while supporting change management, budgeting and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Develop new concepts for products and features in alignment with the objectives of the Enterprise Technology Group and assess the product’s progress with input from Delivery Leads and Project Managers
• Create user stories to share the Product’s development and progress against business outcomes with Business Executives and the Leadership prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with the Enterprise Technology Group strategy
• Responsible for strategic and technical execution (end-to-end) of business user stories and coordinate the Business Process Governance with the right stakeholders
• Work with the Portfolio Product Leadership Team to set the agility strategy and funding requirements
• Conduct / support formal performance reviews, celebrating hard work, individual and team success
• Comprehend key business objectives and requirements of a product to make final decisions on functionality
• Provide feedback to the work of the Product Manager to help them define a product differentiation strategy
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams/processes to ensure a shared understanding of requirements for successful implementation, including program management, process management, data management, change management, and customers
• Work in partnership with process owners to ensure the process is executed appropriately during project initiatives (Order to Cash, Source to Pay, Planning/Manufacturing/Inventory, Acquire to Retire, and Record to Report)
• Understand what is important to the customer, data standards, process standards; collect feedback from users and incorporate user feedback to enhance product features and usability
• Understand and support inter-team dependencies and escalate issues with the coordination of the product manager
• Groom the product backlog, breaking down epics and estimating user stories
• Track the progress towards the release of a product and keep the project and process teams apprised of the same
• Communicate the product vision, roadmap and business intent to the Scrum/development team and ensure close collaboration with the development team
• Coordinate with Scrum team, set and communicate release date and scope
• Provide support to users of the ERP system, including troubleshooting problems, answering questions, and providing training
• Deliver comprehensive product training that aligns with the organization's change management plan
• Coordinates cross functionally with other Operations and Supply chain teams to ensure alignment.
• Prepare and plan budgets to determine how to use company resources to launch new initiatives.
• Standardize the logistic flow of jobs within the manufacturing workshops (launching & Gantt, work ticket, job tracking wide spectrum)
• Work collaboratively with the Continuous improvement (CI) team to ensure processes are executed and improved.
• Animate the local expert's community (Key users, SMEs) to ensure the processes enrichment and the enhancements of the IT solution.

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This role is not remote/ hybrid. This role will report to our office in Cleveland, OH.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa. Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.

Must be eighteen years or older

FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred:

• Six Sigma, Lean training

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• Understanding of Integrated Business Planning process and Sherwin-Williams standards
• Experience in an agile delivery framework, or requirement development or Product Owner role.
• 5 or more years Operations or Supply Chain experience
• Prior knowledge of key process and technical products within Planning (Blue Yonder or similar), manufacturing, reporting and inventory
• Knowledge of ERP operating systems tools and databases
• Experience working with Oracle system
• Experience with, or strong understanding of Product Ownership for Agile Scrum Teams
• Proven ability to analyze complex cross functional business process and defining integrated user stories using industry standard techniques
• Experience working as part of an Agile Release Train in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Preferred:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, tailoring to audiences
• Excellent critical thinking skills and demonstrated ability to proactively manage stakeholder expectations
• Ability to work in distributed teams and develop multi-level relationships
• Proven ability to manage dependencies and shifting priorities
• Ability to support multiple projects, facilitate meetings, and follow up action items
• Ability to lead and influence without direct authority
• Ability to utilize Continuous Improvement tools and processes
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Excellent communication skills to be able to influence peers and executives, as well as external partners
• Experience defining and leading the delivery of an API portfolio that is consumable by both internal and external parties.
• Strong work ethic demonstrated attention to detail, excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work both independently and within a close team environment.
• Ability to listen to and understand business needs.

TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Required:

• Product owner experience, ideally managing APIs as a product in a High paced environment, where requirement change management is a key
• Understanding of agile methodology, techniques, and agile tools (such as Jira and Confluence)
• Expertise in Agile product development
• Familiar Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OATH2) for APIs
• Experience in creating REST API documentation using tools
• Hands on experience on Jira, Confluence and Mural board
• Standard industry certifications such as SAFe, CSPO, or PSPO are preferred

Keywords:

Product Owner, Agile / Scrum, ERP (Oracle, Blue Yonder), API Product Management, Supply Chain Planning, Backlog Grooming, SAFe, Jira & Confluence, Continuous Improvement, Integrated Business Planning