IT Digital Product Manager –Supply Chain Accounting

Sherwin-Williams•Cleveland, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Digital Product Manager – Planning, Inventory, Manufacturing (PMI) Finance is accountable for the strategy, vision, roadmap, and end-to-end delivery of costing, supply chain accounting, and intercompany accounting capabilities across Sherwin-Williams’ global supply chain. This role ensures alignment to enterprise business objectives, program governance, and Enterprise Technology Group (ETG) delivery standards. The Product Manager partners closely with Product Owners, Process, Deployment, DT Engineering, Testing, and Data Governance teams to drive scalable, high-quality solutions that support operational, financial, and compliance requirements. This position is not hybrid/remote and will be located at our Cleveland Headquarters office. This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa. 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.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years of age
Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical- or business-related field
GENERALLY, IF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE IS ACCEPTABLE, THE CANDIDATE MUST HAVE THREE YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE FOR EVERY ONE YEAR OF COLLEGE EDUCATION REQUIRED
8+ years of product management or equivalent project management experience
8+ years leading delivery of technology solutions including business-specific and enterprise applications in alignment with business objectives
3+ years of managing projects
Experience in Costing, Supply Chain Accounting, or Intercompany Accounting
Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
Experience with end-to-end product delivery
Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
Experience owning technology products
Experience of managing internal and external stakeholders
New Product Development / Stage Gate process experience
Prior knowledge of key process and technical products within Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or Inventory
6+ years Oracle or other industry leading applications experience with various Supply Chain modules
3+ years managing IT technology projects and enterprise level implementations
Understanding of supply chain management solutions and business processes
Ability to manage and prioritize multiple initiatives
Expertise in allocation of resources (people, tools, environment) to enable Product teams to deliver on strategic goals
Financial acumen to manage and adhere to plans, budgets, and value creation

Nice To Haves

Supervisory experience or team responsibility
1+ years delivering product-based solutions
Experience in hybrid project delivery environments
Experience in transformational projects or enterprise level initiatives
Experience in enterprise level solutioning through data driven insights
Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
Prior product management experience and leading teams effectively
Understanding of technology product use cases for the Manufacturing or Consumer Products industry
Experience leading teams working in a hybrid Waterfall/Agile delivery model

Responsibilities

Understand Sherwin Williams competition, customer analysis, market research and competitive analysis skills to complete these tasks to support the objectives of the Enterprise Technology Group
Drive the product strategy across core business and enterprise applications working closely with the business leadership and process managers
Develops the business case for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures in coordination with Value Management and business leadership
Own the digital product vision and roadmaps, program backlog and establish feature acceptance criteria while driving objectives in alignment to overall SW strategy
Recommends or contributes information in setting digital product pricing, understands product cost analysis, and producing an internal return rate
Acts as the “voice” of the customer articulating the user’s needs by prioritizing features and enhancements based on customer feedback, business impact, and technical feasibility
Collaborate with process and program teams to define the product roadmaps, community user groups, and other program initiatives
Coordinate aspects of development for multiple projects including specifications, scope, and requirements within key business processes that impact Finance (Order to Cash, Source to Pay, Planning/Manufacturing/Inventory, Acquire to Retire, and Record to Report)
Lead product owners and partner with technical personnel to ensure our products and services meet the needs of the community
Closely collaborate with the product owners to understand the development of business need user-stories, support inter-team dependencies, and help them identify/escalate issues at the earliest.
Lead product owners to build strong practices throughout the organization and Enterprise Technology Group
Develop solutions to product and customer issues by collaborating across regions, process areas, and functions
Support the Enterprise Technology Group Product function through effective performance management, career development, training, continuous process improvements