Director SCM Product Owner Fulfillment (m/f/d)

工作内容

PURPOSE

The Key Objectives Of The Department Are

The purpose of the SCM Product department is to enable operational excellence and future readiness of the process and system landscape across SCM, covering global SCM (and adjacent) functions, as well as market SCM teams.

• Translating strategic direction & demand into a domain strategy and product portfolio which is well-balanced between enabling future readiness (3+ years horizon) and solving operational challenges (12-month horizon).
• Executing product ownership for all digital products in the domain.
• Executing business process ownership on an operational level.
• Providing change management & support for these processes and related systems.
  

As a Director Product Ownership at S&P SCM Fulfillment, you are responsible for the quality and strategic impact of a wide range of digital products. Together with your agile team(s) you work on continuously improving and evolving the product area in order to maximize the value for all internals customers.

Partnering with IT and internal stakeholders to define a robust product backlog, managing capability expansion increments and leading the team towards definition of new functionalities & best practices are a few examples of the activities that will be expected from this role.

Additionally, you will be the strategic interface to various key stakeholders (such as global SCM functions, local SCM teams and adjacent Global teams such as Finance & Sourcing) for the product area, to drive user engagement and satisfaction, as well as ensuring future readiness.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Delivery

• Be accountable for the success of the product, considering the value for the consumer and the company (ROI).
• Define the mid to long-term vision and roadmap of the product considering the value for the user community and the company.
• Be accountable for product delivery in line with the roadmap and committed delivery dates.
• Identify and solve dependencies within and beyond your product to ensure efficient delivery.
• Ensure that objective data sources and feedback are used for the optimization of the product
  

Stakeholder Management

• Represent the business for the product, fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that their views and requirements are captured in the product backlogs
• Act as the ambassador for your products, showcasing the key functionalities, driving product adoption and assuring operational excellence together with IT peers
• Manage relationships outside the product efficiently to ensure that the product teams can work autonomously.
  

Backlog Management

• Drive the evolution of the product backlogs in collaboration with the product owners
• Coach the product managers in your area to ensure that the product teams are delivering the right enhancements to drive user satisfaction and business value
• Influence backlog priorities in the own product
• Influence dependent product backlogs from other products.
  

People Management

• Build the appropriate structure to be able to manage the organization effectively, identify and develop the future talents and create realistic succession scenarios for key positions.
• Ensure appropriate leadership skills are present at every level by creating a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained and provided with career opportunities through development.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of data and team feedback and make appropriate changes in order to meet business needs.
• Provide team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and strategic objectives
  

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Other Fulfillment product teams
• Other SCM product teams
• Global SCM functions, Market SCM teams & adjacent teams (Sales and Finance)
• Global IT Teams
• Central and SCM PMO organizations
• Product Supply, Fulfillment/DTC and Market Senior Leadership teams
  

Knowledge, Capabilities And Skills

Soft skills

• End-to-end mindset, strategic thinking and big picture view of problems at hand
• Creative, energetic personality, able to influence the agenda and build productive relationship with operational teams in Global HQ and Local Markets
• Decisive, taking ownership and leadership appearance
• Track record on coaching talent and team management
• Experience in multi-cultural and cross-divisional management
• Ability to travel, domestic or international, as required
  

Hard skills

• Advance leadership and management training and proven track records in managing large teams (direct/indirect report) and/or external consultant
• Excellent presentation and story-telling skills towards operational and upper management groups
• Operational and business acumen and in-depth knowledge on Fulfillment related processes
• In-depth understanding of IT products and capabilities
• Ability to drive large-scale & transformation projects and proven track records in change management and project delivery
• Stakeholder and backlog management, prioritization and expectation management
• Strong analytical skills and ability to source data autonomously
• Proactive seeking of outside-in perspective and identification of industry best practices to bring back to adidas to build best in class SCM/Fulfillment capabilities, processes and reporting solutions
  

People management skills

• Lead and direct team of senior product managers
• Handle all related line management responsibility
• Coach and mentor team members with people development plan
• Drive the product team including IT consultants (no direct reporting line)
• Foster a highly motivational and encourage highly diverse working environment
• Instills a product team culture in which all important issues are discussed openly and constructively
• Support definition and drive people strategy (e.g. recruitment)
• Empowers individual team members and generates a can-do culture
• Ambassadorship across network
  

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of relevant business experience in Supply Chain / IT, working with stakeholders and experts at various organizational levels
• SCM operational experience preferred
• Experience as a product owner and working Agile is a plus
• Experience with SAP S4 is a plus
• 3+ years of experience in leading a team
• University degree in business administration or a related field