Transportation Product Owner

Title: Transportation Product Owner

Location: Burnswick NJ (onsite need local within 40 miles)

Duration: 1 year

** Biggest focus on this one is soft skills (hungry humble smart) should be a strong functional SAP consultant. TM isnt a MUST someone strong in OTC can likely work here as well.

**MUST have strong agile and user stories experience

**MUST be onsite in new Brunswick nj

Transportation Product Analyst Pharma TranSCend

Client is embarking on an ERP Transformation (TranSCend) an S4 Migration. They are seeking a PA to help support their Pharma TranSCend program in Supply Chain. Pharma is in the initial phases of this transformation. This role with sit in Enterprise Operations & Risk (Formerly Supply Chain Technology (SCT)) in their Deliver pillar.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Through workshop facilitation understand user needs and translate them into detailed requirements for the squad.
• Build use cases writes manage and clarify user stories visualization and process flows.
• Track metrics and build reports to measure progress
• Help manage dependencies with other squads working closely with squad PO peer POs and the Product Manager.
• Stay 23 sprints ahead of the squad and ensures each feature has a clear definition of done; ensure each feature level deliverable is aligned to a definition of readiness to enter a sprint
• User Stories meet the Definition of Ready (DOR) by the required deadlines
• All necessary work drivers are accounted for during the User Story estimation
• All Acceptance Criteria are testable and comprehensive to ensure that business needs are met.
• Explain how requirements may be implemented and drive/improve user experience

Job Requirements

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven experience with SAP ERP system implementations ideally with Transportation Management (TM) module
• A minimum of a bachelors Degree is required
• 3 years of agile BA experience
• Most eastern time zone working hours however do require flexibility to accommodate teammates in Europe and West coast can be remote with adhoc travels

Skills & Capabilities:

• Selfdriver and proactive
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to understand and lead several priorities working to tight project milestones
• Ability to thrive in a multicultural cross functional environment
• Demonstrate integrity and ethical behavior in all areas of responsibility
• Critical thinking and ability to ask the hard questions to stakeholders
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders with conflicting priorities

Additional Details:

• Kanthi (Hiring Manager) will be TPM for all things transportation on Pharma
  • Need a Product Analyst at a minimum
    • SAP has a module called TM
      • Niche skillset
      • If you are a seasoned functional consultant (i.e. OTC) you should be able to do it
      • Just needs some transportation functional consultant understand configuration understand elements of SAP doesnt need to be super user.
      • They dont need to do configurations but they need to understand it
        • Knowledge to challenge TS people
      • Remember this is S4 HANA
        • This might be challenging
        • If they worked on ECC this is good as well