Sourcing Technical Product Manager (SAP Ariba and SAP Ariba SLP)

At Visa the Corporate Information Technology organization enables Visas revenue growth through flexible pricing engines and global revenue platforms built on modern technologies. They enable compliance through Legal and Privacy applications support HR IT applications Controllership EBS and Sourcing application Digital media cloud and network solutions.

The CIT Product Management team is looking for a Technical Product Manager who will be responsible for managing the product lifecycle from conception to launch and beyond ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality billing and cross functional applications on time and within budget. You will be working as part of a team responsible for evangelizing building and testing critical business applications that utilize SAP Ariba and SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance (SLP).The team works closely with business owners of these services to solve business problems discover opportunities and improve operations by delivering features that reduce manual efforts.

As a product manager you will provide functional and technical expertise thought leadership with focus on automation and creating business value. For this role it is important for you to enjoy working on diverse technologies and should be excited to take initiatives to solve complex business and operational problems. 

A strong candidate will have a solid experience in product management agile product delivery as well as superb skills in communications business analysis problem-solving coordination and change management. The ideal candidate ensures things get done with customer-first mindset.
 

Key Responsibilities:

•  Design develop and implement integration solutions for SAP Ariba and SAP Ariba SLP module.
• Drive business requirements intake document elaborated requirements and use cases in partnership with business product management Engineering and UX design
• Provide functional leadership in sourcing and purchasing domain during the analysis of new upcoming programs and projects

• Perform technical grooming of business requirements and specifications for existing and new services and products. Work with team members to create/review user stories. Develop well-formed features specifications and acceptance criteria 
• Ensure that business requirements include measurable business benefits and OKRs
• Work with UX team to ensure requirements translate to mockups and meet interaction and design requirements for clients
• Collaborate with Engineering and Business product manager in setting the roadmap and making necessary tradeoffs using prioritization events
• Develop best practices for improving quality of requirements developer productivity and user engagement and roll out to team members
• Measure and improve agility adoption of team members and provide recommendations
• Monitor day to day performance of our platforms analyze trends create and lead initiatives that will improve customer experiences
• Collaborate with cross-functional development team to identify impact manage dependencies and define key milestones
• Manage post-release feature management measurement of adoption performance and collaboration with business product managers
• Proactively identify gaps in the current product offering and lead the effort to develop solutions that drive business value
• Develop concise product materials to document the product features to educate stakeholders (e.g. Product Guides Integration Guides Release Notes)

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications
5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD OR 8 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
8 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
Functional and business process expertise in both Ariba upstream modules including Ariba Procurement Workspace Ariba Sourcing and Ariba Contract and downstream modules including Ariba Buying and Invoicing.
Hands-on experience integrating Ariba with other enterprise applications through integration middleware and APIs.
Experience with Ariba reporting/analytics tool or other enterprise Business Intelligence and Analytics tools.
Oracle ERP functional knowledge and integration experience including master data and transactional data integration.
SAP Ariba certification preferred (e.g. SAP Ariba Procurement SAP Ariba Sourcing SAP Ariba Supplier Management)
Experience with relational databases like Oracle Postgres
Experienced with agile software development methodology SAFE story and requirements definition
Must be highly self-motivated with strong organizational skills outstanding analytic skills and polished facilitation skills stakeholder management.

Additional Information :

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time