Product Owner, Integrated Business Planning

Scout Motors • Charlotte, NC

1d • $160,000 - $192,500 • Onsite

About The Position

Scout Motors is building its Integrated Business Planning (IBP) capability from the ground up. This role is responsible for the production-grade platform that will run the executive planning forum and coordinate demand, supply, capacity, constraints, scenarios, and decisions as the company scales to volume production. The Product Manager will own the product vision, roadmap, and prioritization for this platform, working closely with IT to define requirements, planning logic, user experience, and supported decisions. The role sits at the intersection of business planning, supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, finance, and technology, with the primary goal of making the platform the single, trusted source of truth for Scout’s integrated business planning decisions. The core of the product is a single, integrated planning artifact encompassing demand outlook, production plan, procurement and supplier constraints, capacity and inventory implications, financial impacts, scenarios, risks, decisions, and actions. Defining this artifact effectively to mirror the actual planning process and drive high-quality tradeoff decisions in the executive forum is central to the role.

Requirements

• 12+ years in product ownership / product management, supply chain / operations planning, S&OP / Integrated Business Planning, business systems, or a related analytical or transformation role—ideally including ownership of a product or platform, not just delivery of one.
• Real S&OP / Integrated Business Planning fluency. Understanding of demand and supply planning, capacity and procurement constraints, inventory and financial implications, scenario planning, and how executive decision forums actually run.
• A product mindset: think in outcomes and tradeoffs, prioritize ruthlessly, say no well, and own the result rather than the activity. Comfortable owning the what and why while a delivery team owns the how.
• Agile delivery fluency: Experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager on software products, skilled in backlog management, sprint planning, and agile delivery for complex, data-driven products. Experience leading an agile team, plus strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Data and KPI literacy: Familiarity with the data flows and KPIs critical to supply chain efficiency (e.g., forecast accuracy, inventory levels, service levels), and comfort with large data sets, planning assumptions, scenario models, dashboards, and performance metrics.
• Digital platform experience: Experience managing a digital product across areas such as data management, APIs, integration, and monitoring, spanning the entire S&OP/IBP process in a multi-team, multi-channel environment. Knowledge of how planning tools (e.g., APS, ERP, or custom solutions) enable S&OP execution.
• Cross-functional leadership without formal authority: Ability to build trust, create alignment across functions with competing priorities, and drive progress through credibility rather than mandate.
• Sharp communication: Ability to synthesize complexity, document decisions clearly, and move fluently between senior leaders and technical teams.
• Applicants must be 18 years of age or older.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, business, information systems, or operations preferred.
• Automotive or other complex-manufacturing experience—long-lead procurement, BOM and capacity ramp, supplier allocation, plant constraints—is a strong plus.
• Experience with planning systems, ERP, BI platforms, or agile product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for the Integrated Business Planning platform, convey that vision to the build team, and translate business requirements into a sequenced roadmap of product features.
• Define and evolve the integrated view at the center of the executive planning forum: demand outlook, production plan, procurement and supplier constraints, capacity and inventory implications, financial impact, scenarios, decisions, and actions, so it mirrors how Scout actually plans and decides.
• Own backlog refinement end to end: write clear user stories, keep acceptance criteria testable and tied to IBP value delivery, and validate delivered features and enhancements against those criteria so they support end-to-end IBP execution.
• Translate planning logic into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and work with IT and data teams on architecture, data flows, integrations, reporting logic, user access, testing, and support model.
• Sit between the product/dev team and the IBP and business functions—Production, Procurement, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Finance—to align priorities and timelines, surface the inputs, assumptions, constraints, and outputs the process actually needs, and reconcile competing priorities into a coherent product.
• Build the governance that makes outputs credible: data quality, master data and planning assumptions, scenario logic, change control, and version management.
• Shape dashboards, reports, and executive views that let leadership see demand-supply gaps, tradeoffs, risks, and required decisions at a glance—and act on them in the forum.
• Drive the platform from “a tool that exists” to “the source of truth the executive forum runs on” through training, iteration, feedback loops, and relentless attention to whether people actually use it to decide.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance including: Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with: An employer match and immediate vesting
• Generous Paid Time Off including: 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
• Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave
• Pay Transparency
• Annual performance bonus program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior