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