Product Owner Blend Execution

• Lead digital product design efforts including how to bring together People, Process, Technology and Data design elements that provide Value to the Sherwin Williams organization.

• Analyze stakeholder needs, create user stories and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with the business objectives

• Responsible for strategic and technical execution (end-to-end) of business user stories and including coordination with functional, technical and business team members

• Work with Product and Portfolio Leadership to set the strategy and funding requirements

• Conduct / support formal performance reviews, celebrating hard work, individual and team success

• Collaborate with Product Managers to define a digital product differentiation strategy

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams/processes to ensure a shared understanding of requirements for successful implementation, including program management, process management, data management, change management, and customers

• Work in partnership with process owners to ensure the process is executed appropriately during project initiatives (Order to Cash, Source to Pay, Planning/Manufacturing/Inventory, Acquire to Retire, and Record to Report)

• Understand what is important to the customer, data standards, process standards; collect feedback from users and incorporate user feedback to enhance digital product features and usability

• Understand and support inter-team dependencies and escalate issues with the coordination of the product manager

• Groom the product backlog, breaking down epics & features; and estimating user stories

• Track the release progress of a digital product and keep the project and process teams informed of progress

• Communicate the digital product vision, roadmap and business intent to the development team and ensure close collaboration

• Coordinate with development team, set and communicate release date and scope

• Provide support to users of the ERP system, including troubleshooting problems, answering questions, and providing training

• Deliver comprehensive product training that aligns with the organization's change management plan

• Coordinates cross functionally with Operations and Supply chain teams to ensure alignment.

• Prepare and plan budgets to determine how to use company resources to launch new initiatives.

• Standardize the logistic flow of jobs within the manufacturing workshops (launching & Gantt, work ticket, job tracking wide spectrum)

• Work collaboratively with the Continuous improvement (CI) team to ensure processes are executed and improved.

• Animate the local experts community (Key users, SMEs) to ensure the processes enrichment and the enhancements of the IT solution.

FORMAL EDUCATION:

• Required:
  
  
  
  • Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business related field
  
  

• Preferred:
  
  
  
  • Six Sigma, Lean training
  
  

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

• Required:
  
  
  
  • Understanding of PCG Facilities process and Sherwin-Williams standards
  • 5+ years in an agile or hybrid delivery framework, or requirement development, or Digital Product Owner role.
  • Prior Operations or Supply Chain experience
  • Prior knowledge of key process and technical solutions within planning, manufacturing and inventory
  • Knowledge of cloud-based ERP systems
  • Proven ability to analyze complex cross functional business process and defining integrated user stories using industry standard techniques