Product Manager - Digital Manufacturing

The Marzetti Company•Columbus, OH

About The Position

With the stabilization of our SAP S/4HANA RISE and Cloud First transformation, The Marzetti Company has entered a new phase—shifting from platform implementation to ongoing business transformation. Our intentionally nimble technical landscape is maintained, improved, and continuously optimized through the capabilities of a centralized Business Transformation team within the Information Technology (IT) department; the Center of Excellence (COE) is a core component of this group. The COE team’s role is to understand business capability needs, translate them into prioritized roadmaps, and ensure processes, data, and organizational readiness practices are fit for purpose to maximize business value from our enterprise platforms. The Product Manager – Digital Manufacturing serves as the product owner for digital manufacturing capabilities across Integrated Planning and Supply Chain Operations within The Marzetti Company. This role partners closely with various Supply Chain stakeholders to translate operational needs into clear, prioritized product backlogs that drive tangible business value. The Product Manager is accountable for ensuring digital manufacturing capabilities deliver measurable improvements in planning accuracy and operational efficiency, while data and system integrations enable clear, transparent visibility into performance across planning and execution. Operating at the intersection of people, process, data, and enterprise systems, the Product Manager is responsible for day-to-day product ownership activities including intake triage, backlog refinement, roadmap contribution, and value realization. The role focuses on ensuring planning and operational execution capabilities are well-defined, well-integrated, and aligned with enterprise standards and Supply Chain priorities. While this role does not directly own Manufacturing Execution Systems or shop floor control applications, it partners with Supply Chain and Manufacturing Technology leaders to ensure strategic alignment between platforms, data flows, and integration patterns across all manufacturing facilities. The Product Manager helps ensure that digital transformation in the manufacturing space meets business needs and scales with Marzetti. This role includes direct people leadership responsibility for one to two Senior Analysts and works closely with other Product Owners, IT Solution Owners, Data & Analytics, Organizational Change Management (OCM), and Continuous Improvement (CI) partners to ensure solutions are practical, scalable, and effectively adopted by the business.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in supply chain planning, manufacturing operations, or digital manufacturing environments.
Strong functional understanding of Integrated Planning, MRP / IBP concepts, and manufacturing operations processes.
SAP experience required, preferably SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition or RISE.
Experience with manufacturing execution systems, manufacturing data models, and shop floor integrations required.
Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into clear product requirements and priorities.
Demonstrated track record of owning outcomes, not just deliverables – showing measurable improvements in planning and manufacturing processes.
Ability to travel up to 10%

Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and prioritization guidance to one or more assigned Senior Analysts, ensuring alignment to product priorities and delivery expectations.
Set clear performance expectations, create accountability with direct reports for delivery quality and timelines, and ensure transparent progress tracking.
Support professional development of team members through coaching, feedback, and skill-building opportunities.
Own the Integrated Planning and Supply Chain Operations product – accountable for ensuring backlog is clearly defined, prioritized, and managed through intake into delivery on schedule for enhancements, projects, and operational improvements.
Partner with Supply Chain stakeholders to understand business challenges, opportunities, and priorities, translating needs into clear use cases and business requirements.
Contribute to product roadmaps and sequencing decisions in alignment with Supply Chain and enterprise priorities.
Support preparation of business cases and value hypotheses for initiatives within scope, collaborating with business partners and leadership as needed.
Ensure solutions remain anchored to core enterprise platforms and fit-to-standard principles, minimizing customization and technical debt.
Identify process gaps, dependencies, and integration points within planning and supply chain operations, ensuring impacts are documented and appropriately managed with stakeholders.
Collaborate with IT Solution Owners to clarify requirements, review designs, and support effective delivery.
Perform end-to-end testing activities, including validation of integrations with upstream and downstream systems.
Serve as a point of escalation for issues and trade-offs within the product scope, ensuring timely communication and resolution.
Effectively communicate issues, decisions reached, and/or the status of projects with various counterparts on the project team and within the business – maintaining accountability for accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of updates to stakeholders.
Ensure all processes are fit for purpose and comply with legal and statutory requirements, and that processes fully comply with company standards.
Maintain business security roles that conform with segregation of duty (SOD) requirements.
Advocate for end-to-end “shop floor to top floor” integration by partnering with Manufacturing Technology, Enterprise Architecture, and Solution Owners to ensure planning and supply chain requirements are aligned with manufacturing system capabilities.
Partner closely with Manufacturing Technology (Engineering), Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, and Continuous Improvement teams to advance digital manufacturing, simplify and standardize processes, and optimize across enterprise platforms.
Drive development of enterprise templates, playbooks and repeatable frameworks for new site deployments, acquisitions, and future manufacturing expansions.
Partner with Data & Analytics to ensure planning and supply chain operational data supports reporting, KPIs, and decision-making needs.
Collaborate with Continuous Improvement (CI) on process documentation, analysis, and improvement opportunities related to enterprise systems, including alignment with Signavio process models.
Partner with Organizational Change Management (OCM) to support training, communication, and stakeholder engagement activities for changes within scope.
Support Super User communities and forums by providing product context and subject matter expertise to enable adoption and continuous improvement.