Tech Product Manager, Connected Planning (IBP and S&OP) Job at Ocean Spray

Ocean Spray Lakeville, MA 02347

This role plays a critical part in planning and delivery within Ocean Sprays modernization journey. This Connected Planning (IBP) Product Manager is a solution architect with strong business acumen responsible for driving and delivering the technological and organizational enablement of our Connected Planning processes and solution. The successful candidate will work closely with senior business leaders and IT teams to define and deploy strategic enterprise planning capabilities.

This is an exciting time to join at the start of our journey, providing the candidate the opportunity to blueprint and drive change from birth to nurturing. The successful candidate will bring in relevant industry experience, vision for the Connected Planning (IBP) solution, leveraging hands-on technology platform solution expertise, influencing ability to drive process and solution standardization, and collaboration with various stakeholders to achieve common goals, while delivering consistent and thorough deliverables as required by the project.

You will be adept and come with a Product mindset in architecture, engineering and importantly with enabling the continuous flow of value through interactive improvements to process and design.
Position location: We're all about flexibility! This will be a hybrid role based out of our corporate headquarters in Lakeville, MA with Mondays & Fridays remote.
Responsibilities:
  • Lead and provide input on the technology selection, build and deploy
  • Partner with our business to adapt to industry best practices for following planning related areas - demand, supply, inventory, S&OP, financials.
  • Be the primary functional contact and technology business partner to our Commercial Leader, US and International business across a number of stakeholders in Supply Chain and Finance business leadership teams to define and deliver Connected Planning capabilities required to enable the business strategy
  • Be the single point of contact for our solution across product vendor, external technology providers / system integrators, business teams and internal IT teams
  • Lead all Product Management aspects of the SDLC, including requirement gathering, solution definition, build, testing, deployment, and support
  • Lead all integration aspects with existing and new ERP core (SAP S4, and other non-SAP applications, and analytics tools).
  • Collaborate within the internal IT organization to deliver quality solutions, on time
  • Drive process and solution standardization
  • Effectively analyze business process changes and change impact, and work with business stakeholders to manage through that change
Requirements:
  • 5+ years of hands-on, solution leadership and implementation experience in SAP planning-related solutions, preferred experience with O9, Anaplan, Relex, SAP IBP and SAP APO
  • Industry experience within CPG or Food & Beverage is highly preferred
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders to adopt industry best practices in terms of business processes and technology solutions.
  • Strong business acumen within an enterprise planning function and other supply chain execution functions, including transportation planning, manufacturing planning, and warehouse management.
  • Strong research, data analysis, and problem visualization skills
  • Ability to collaborate with multiple teams effectively.
  • Ability to travel up to 15% to our supply facilities.
Compensation/Benefits:
  • Competitive Base Salary
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on day one
  • Performance Bonus
  • 401K with up to 10% in matching contributions
  • Bright Horizons Family Solutions – Back up care, tutoring, etc.
  • Transgender benefits
  • Fertility benefits
  • Tuition Reimbursement Program
  • Paid holidays and vacation days
  • Up to $300 Fitness Reimbursement
  • Up to $300 Massage Reimbursement
  • Health Resources including Free Lyra membership, 1:1 Health Coaching and more.
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning
Who We Are:
You might have our iconic cranberry juice in your fridge or have gotten into heated holiday debate about what’s better - canned or fresh cranberry sauce. But did you know that the hardworking people growing the superfruit in our products are 700 family farmers that own our cooperative? They entrust us with what is most precious to them to create new and innovative products that will delight consumers and grow this beloved brand today and into the future.

Team members, farmers, consumers and communities alike-we value what makes us unique and strive to connect our farms to families for a better life by living our values:
  • Grower Mindset – We embrace our grower-owners innovative spirit and heritage through confidence, learning and focus on the future.
  • Sustainable Results – Guided by purpose, we are focused on delivering results for our grower-owners.
  • Integrity Above All – We are ethical, doing the right thing for our grower-owners, customers, consumers and each other
  • Inclusive Teamwork – We build diverse and inclusive teams that strengthen our cooperative.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.



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