Product Owner, Integrated Business Planning

Scout Motors • Charlotte, NC

1d • 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 Owner 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 reflect the real planning process and drive high-quality tradeoff decisions 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.
• Real S&OP / Integrated Business Planning fluency, understanding demand and supply planning, capacity and procurement constraints, inventory and financial implications, scenario planning, and executive decision forums.
• A product mindset, focusing on outcomes and tradeoffs, prioritizing ruthlessly, saying no well, and owning the result.
• Agile delivery fluency, with 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 data flows and KPIs critical to supply chain efficiency, and comfort with large data sets, planning assumptions, scenario models, dashboards, and performance metrics.
• Digital platform experience, including data management, APIs, integration, and monitoring, spanning the entire S&OP/IBP process.
• Knowledge of how planning tools (e.g., APS, ERP, or custom solutions) enable S&OP execution.
• Cross-functional leadership without formal authority, building trust and creating alignment across functions.
• Sharp communication skills, ability to synthesize complexity, document decisions clearly, and communicate effectively with both senior leaders and technical teams.
• Comfort with change and flexibility in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Collaborative approach to achieve ambitious goals.
• Integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, and a positive attitude with a growth mindset.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, business, information systems, or operations.
• Automotive or other complex-manufacturing experience (long-lead procurement, BOM and capacity ramp, supplier allocation, plant constraints).
• 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, making decisions on build priorities.
• 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) to mirror Scout's actual planning and decision-making processes.
• Own backlog refinement end to end, including writing user stories, defining testable acceptance criteria tied to IBP value delivery, and validating delivered features against those criteria.
• Translate planning logic into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and collaborate with IT and data teams on architecture, data flows, integrations, reporting logic, user access, testing, and support models.
• Act as a liaison between the product/dev team and IBP and business functions (Production, Procurement, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Finance) to align priorities, surface needs, and reconcile competing priorities.
• Build governance for credible outputs, including data quality, master data, planning assumptions, scenario logic, change control, and version management.
• Shape dashboards, reports, and executive views that enable leadership to quickly understand demand-supply gaps, tradeoffs, risks, and required decisions.
• Drive platform adoption and continuous improvement through training, iteration, feedback loops, and ensuring the platform is used for decision-making.

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