At Sherwin-Williams, the Enterprise Technology Group (ETG) needs to develop new concepts for products and features, assess product progress, and ensure alignment with business outcomes and strategy. This involves managing user stories, coordinating with stakeholders, and providing feedback to define product differentiation and enhance features and usability.
Requirements
- Six Sigma, Lean training, Agile experience, JIRA experience, Oracle Cloud/R12/11i experience, shipping experience, warehouse management leadership, Oracle Transportation Management (OTM experience
- Prior Operations and Order to Cash experience.
- Prior knowledge of key process and technical products within Warehouse Management, Shipping, Transportation, Product Data Management.
- Knowledge of ERP operating systems tools and databases
- Experience working with Oracle systems, transportation planning systems or warehouse management systems.
- Experience with, and strong understanding of Product Ownership for Agile Scrum Teams
- Proven ability to analyze complex cross functional business process and defining integrated user stories using industry standard techniques
Responsibilities
- Develop new concepts for products and features in alignment with the objectives of the Enterprise Technology Group (ETG) and assess the product’s progress with input from Delivery Leads
- Create user stories to share the Product’s development and progress against business outcomes with Business Executives and the Project Leadership, prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with the ETG strategy.
- Responsible for strategic and technical execution (end-to-end) of business user stories and coordinate the Business Process Governance with the right stakeholders.
- Comprehend key business objectives and requirements of a product to make final decisions on functionality.
- Provide feedback of the work to the Product Manager to help them define a 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.
- Groom the product backlog, breaking down features and estimating user stories.
Other
- Provide constructive feedback, ideas to improve the development and requirements process, celebrate hard work and individual and team success within the ETG organization.
- Understand what is important to the customer, data standards, process standards, EHS/regulatory statutes; collect feedback from users and incorporate user feedback to enhance product features and usability.
- Understand and support inter-team dependencies and escalate issues with the coordination of the product manager.
- Track the progress towards the release of a product and keep the project and process teams appraised of the same and alert of any potential risks or issue with scope, missing requirements or delays.
- Communicate the product vision, roadmap and business intent to the Scrum/development team and ensure close collaboration with the development team.
