Contractor Product Owner - Ammunition

SMX

11d

About The Position

The Contractor Business Owner (BO) for Ammunition provides primary support to the Government Business Owner integrating activities between Army ammunition stakeholders, MFCT functional leads, and the Project Management Office (PMO)/Technical Integration Provider (TIP) delivery teams within the Enterprise Business Systems – Convergence (EBS-C) program. This role enables the end-to-end definition, prioritization, and validation of ammunition-related capabilities for the new SAP S/4HANA environment, ensuring solutions meet operational needs while aligning with SAP Best Practices, Army policy, and the program’s rapid decision-making timelines. This role provides dedicated functional knowledge and support to ensure desired outcomes for the Ammunition Agile Release Train (ART) teams.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in Army logistics, ammunition management, industrial operations, or ERP functional design.
Prior experience with SAP ECC or S/4HANA in logistics (MM/WM/EWM/PP/QM) strongly preferred.
Strong understanding of Army ammunition lifecycle, accountable item management, and supporting regulations (DA PAM 700-16, AR 710-2, etc.).
Demonstrated ability to manage backlogs, write user stories, and operate within Agile or hybrid Agile/CPM environments.
Exceptional communication skills and ability to work across diverse stakeholder groups.

Nice To Haves

Experience with major DoD IT/ERP modernization programs.
Familiarity with Azure DevOps, process mining (Signavio), and SAP Best Practices.
Prior experience supporting a PMO, MFCT, or TIP-like organization.
Active Secret or eligibility for clearance may be required depending on role location.

Responsibilities

Ensure ammunition requirements are fully traceable from concept through testing, training, and deployment using ADO, the IMS, and program governance artifacts.
Support decision packages, risk assessments, and readiness checkpoints for ammunition scope.
Work with OCM, training, and data teams to prepare the ammunition community for deployment, including job aids, walkthroughs, and adoption-focused materials.
Provide dedicated support to or on behalf of government business owner.
Define and refine the ammunition functional product vision for S/4HANA, ensuring alignment with Army logistics doctrine, end-to-end munitions lifecycle processes (demand planning, stockage, issue/turn-in, production, surveillance, disposal, and reporting) and enterprise architecture.
Develop and maintain a prioritized product backlog in Azure DevOps, ensuring stories are clear, testable, outcome-based, and sized appropriately for the program’s sprint cadence.
Represent ammunition stakeholders in all key forums (VST, MFCT, Lean Architecture Forum, SCoUT prototypes, etc.) to ensure timely and informed decisions.
Provide dedicated stakeholder engagement support to or on behalf of government business owner.
Coordinate between ammunition functional proponents, gaining consensus across depots, ACOMs, and sustaining commands on process design, required capabilities, and policy implications.
Translate operational needs into features and process changes using SAP Best Practices as the default baseline.
Facilitate workshops as required, participate in backlog refinement sessions, and sprint reviews with MFCT, PMO, and TIP configuration teams as in support of or on behalf of government business owner.
Collaborate closely with TIP functional teams to validate process flows, configuration, RICEFW objects, and integration needs related to ammunition (e.g., logistics, financial, industrial base operations, warehouse management).
Collaborate across interface partners (e.g., GCSS-Army, LMP replacements, supply, maintenance, industrial systems) to ensure ammunition processes integrate seamlessly across the enterprise landscape.
Review design documents, test plans, user stories, and data migration rules for ammunition materials, serial numbers, batch management, and controlled item tracking.
Provide testing, validation and acceptance support to or on behalf of government business owner.
Lead acceptance activities including functional testing, integration testing, and user validation for ammunition processes.
Ensure that test scenarios cover all ammunition lifecycle events, regulatory constraints, and unique transaction controls.
Approve or reject development work based on alignment to user needs, quality standards, and compliance expectations.