Product Owner, Supply Chain & Procurement

Versant•Englewood Cliffs, NJ

28d•$110,000 - $130,000

About The Position

The Product Owner, Supply Chain & Procurement (Business Solutions – Corporate Core Finance) owns the vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog for SAP S/4HANA capabilities supporting procurement, inventory, and related finance processes. The role partners with business stakeholders, SAP functional teams, engineers, QA, data teams, and delivery partners to deliver scalable, user-centered solutions across procure-to-pay and connected order-to-cash workflows. The position combines product ownership with working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), and Finance/Controlling (FI/CO) integrations. It aims to improve purchasing compliance, process efficiency, invoice automation, spend visibility, inventory accuracy, financial controls, and user experience. The Product Owner leads discovery and process design, translates business objectives into prioritized delivery work, and guides Agile execution through implementation, testing, release, and post-launch stabilization. The role also communicates product strategy and delivery trade-offs, maintains product documentation, supports change management, and builds relationships across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Technology, and external implementation partners.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Finance, Supply Chain, Business, or equivalent experience.
At least 3 years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, SAP functional delivery professional, or in a similar role in a technology-driven organization.
Experience owning and prioritizing a product backlog in an Agile delivery environment.
Experience delivering SAP S/4HANA procure-to-pay, materials management, inventory, finance integration, or related enterprise capabilities.
Strong knowledge of procurement processes, including requisitioning, purchasing, approvals, receiving, inventory, invoice verification, supplier management, and payment workflows.
Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA MM and FI/CO integration concepts.
Experience supporting SAP implementations, including testing, data migration, cutover, or post-go-live stabilization.
Experience collaborating with engineering, QA, design, data, integration, and SAP functional teams.
Effective stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills, including comfort working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and business requirements.
Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
Highly detail-oriented, with excellent organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
Strong judgment in managing priorities, resources, risks, dependencies, and delivery trade-offs.
Experience using Jira, Confluence, and Slack.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with SAP SD and order-to-cash processes.
Experience with SAP SD configuration and integration concepts, including order-to-cash, pricing, billing, customer master data, and financial postings.
Familiarity with SAP MM configuration concepts, including purchasing organizations, plants, storage locations, purchasing documents, release strategies, invoice tolerances, and movement types.
Experience in media or entertainment.
Ability to investigate and learn unfamiliar systems quickly.
Experience applying automation, analytics, or AI capabilities to improve finance, procurement, supply chain, or business workflows.

Responsibilities

Own, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog for supply chain, procurement, and related finance capabilities.
Define customer and business problems, desired outcomes, success measures, and key performance indicators for adoption, process efficiency, procurement compliance, spend visibility, inventory accuracy, and user satisfaction.
Translate business objectives into epics, user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria, and incremental release plans.
Balance customer value, business impact, technical feasibility, risk, compliance needs, and delivery timelines; break initiatives into smaller releases that support continuous delivery and learning.
Lead discovery and requirements-gathering sessions with procurement, supply chain, finance, warehouse, sales, customer service, and IT stakeholders.
Assess current-state workflows, pain points, and control requirements across procure-to-pay and connected order-to-cash processes; facilitate future-state design, identify gaps and dependencies, document decisions, and align stakeholders on scope and priorities.
Validate assumptions using stakeholder feedback, operational data, and system insights; identify opportunities for process simplification, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions.
Partner with SAP functional consultants, engineers, QA, integration teams, data teams, and business process owners to refine solutions and remove ambiguity.
Define requirements for integrations among SAP S/4HANA MM, SD, FI/CO, warehouse operations, tax, payment, logistics, customer, supplier, and third-party systems.
Validate end-to-end business and accounting impacts across requisition-to-payment, inventory, sales-order-to-billing, and financial reporting processes.
Participate in and lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, and other Agile delivery ceremonies.
Prioritize defects, enhancements, and change requests based on business impact, urgency, risk, compliance, and roadmap value.
Support implementation activities including master-data readiness, data migration, testing, cutover planning, release readiness, hypercare, and post-launch stabilization.
Coordinate business testing by defining test scenarios, test data, acceptance criteria, and success measures for end-to-end processes; support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, defect triage, and business sign-off.
Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams; communicate product strategy, roadmap priorities, progress, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies to technical and non-technical audiences.
Maintain product documentation, business-process materials, requirements, decisions, and release information in Confluence; use Jira and Slack to support backlog transparency, delivery workflow, communication, and issue resolution.
Support change management through training materials, process documentation, release communications, stakeholder demonstrations, and adoption feedback.
Build trusted relationships across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Technology, and external implementation partners.