Product Director Source to Pay

1. Understand Sherwin Williams competition, customer analysis, market research and competitive analysis skills to complete these tasks to support the objectives of the Global Transformation Office
2. Drive the product strategy across core business and enterprise applications working closely with the business leadership and process managers
3. Develops the business case for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures in coordination with Value Management and business leadership
4. Align and define product vision and roadmaps, program backlog, establish feature acceptance criteria while driving objectives in alignment to overall SW strategy
5. Aligns closely with the end-user requirements to understand needs. Ensures product feature set fits needs and requirements in an efficient manner.
6. Collaborate with process and program teams to define the product roadmaps, market positioning, community user groups, and other program initiatives
7. Coordinate aspects of development for multiple projects including specifications, scope, and requirements within key business processes (Order to Cash, Source to Pay, Planning/Manufacturing/Inventory, Acquire to Retire, and Record to Report)
8. Lead product owners and partner with technical personnel to ensure our products and services meet the needs of the community
9. Closely collaborate with the product owners to understand the development of business need user-stories, support inter-team dependencies, and help them identify/escalate issues at the earliest.
10. Lead product owners to build strong practices throughout the organization and Global Transformation Office
11. Develop solutions to product and customer issues by collaborating across regions, process areas, and functions
12. Support the Global Transformation Office Product function through effective performance management, career development, training, continuous process improvements

EDUCATION

• Required
  
  
  
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical- or business-related field
  
  

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

• Required:
  
  
  
  • 10+ years of product management or equivalent project management experience
  • 10+ years leading delivery of technology solutions including business-specific and enterprise applications in alignment with business objectives
  • 8+ years leading and managing a team of direct reports
  • 5+ years of managing projects
  • Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
  • Experience with end-to-end product delivery
  • Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
  • Experience of managing multiple teams and stakeholders
  • New Product Development / Stage Gate process experience
  
  

• Preferred:
  
  
  
  • Prior knowledge of key process and technical products within Procurement and Accounts Payables.
  • Supervisory experience or team responsibility
  • 1+ delivering product-based or Agile-based solutions
  • 1+ years of experience implementing and utilizing agile methodologies for development in a technology organization
  • Experience in agile project environments
  • Experience in transformational projects or enterprise level initiatives
  • Experience in enterprise level solutioning through data driven insights
  • Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
  • Prior product management experience and leading teams effectively