PMI-Product Owner Inventory

• Lead digital product design efforts including how to bring together People, Process, Technology and Data design elements that provide Value to the Sherwin Williams organization
• Analyze stakeholder needs, create user stories and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with the business objectives
• Collaborate with Product Managers to define a digital product differentiation strategy
• Responsible for strategic and technical execution (end-to-end) of business user stories and coordination with business process and deployment team members
• Work with the Product Leadership Team to set the agility strategy and funding requirements  
• 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  
• Work in partnership with process owners to ensure the process is executed appropriately during project initiatives (Order to Cash, Source to Pay, Planning/Manufacturing/Inventory, Acquire to Retire, and Record to Report)  
• Understand what is important to the customer, data standards, process standards; 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
• Groom the product backlog, breaking down epics & features; and estimating user stories  
• Track the release progress of a digital product and keep the project and process teams informed of progress
• Communicate the product vision, roadmap and business intent to the development team and ensure close collaboration  
• Coordinate with development team, set and communicate release date and scope
• Provide support to users of the Oracle Cloud enabled solution, including troubleshooting problems, answering questions, and providing training
• Deliver comprehensive product training that aligns with the organization's change management plan
• Coordinates cross functionally with other Operations and Supply chain teams to ensure alignment
• Prepare and plan budgets to determine how to use company resources to launch new initiatives.
• Standardize the logistic flow of jobs within the manufacturing workshops (launching & Gantt, work ticket, job tracking wide spectrum)
• Work collaboratively with the Continuous improvement (CI) team to ensure processes are executed and improved
• Conduct / support formal performance reviews, celebrating hard work, individual and team success  

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.  Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships

This role is not remote and will report to Sherwin-Williams Higbee Headquarters located in downtown Cleveland, OH 44113.

Must be eighteen or older.

Position Requirements

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree 
  • If relevant experience is acceptable, the candidate must have three years of work experience for every one year of college education required.
• 5+ years of Inventory Management, Operations or Supply Chain experience
• Experience in an agile or hybrid delivery framework, or requirement development or Product Owner role
• Prior Operations or Supply Chain experience
• Prior knowledge of key process and technical products within planning, manufacturing and inventory
• Knowledge of ERP operating systems tools and databases
• Experience with and strong understanding of digital Product Ownership
• Proven ability to analyze complex cross functional business process and defining integrated user stories using industry standard techniques
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future for employment visa status
• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age

Preferred:

• Six Sigma, Lean training
• Understanding of Inventory management and Sherwin-Williams standards
• Preferred standard industry certifications such as SAFe, CSPO, or PSPO
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, tailoring to audiences
• Excellent critical thinking skills and demonstrated ability to proactively manage stakeholder expectations
• Ability to work in distributed teams and develop multi-level relationships
• Proven ability to manage dependencies and shifting priorities
• Ability to support multiple projects, facilitate meetings, and follow up action items
• Ability to lead and influence without direct authority
• Previous experience with designing and implementing Oracle Cloud Supply Chain modules and other cloud-based supporting technologies
• Ability to utilize Continuous Improvement tools and processes
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Excellent communication skills to be able to influence peers and executives, as well as external partners
• Strong work ethic demonstrated attention to detail, excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work both independently and within a close team environment.
• Ability to listen to and understand business needs.