Product Manager - Procurement & Supply Analytics

About Merito :-

Merito is a curated talent platform where we identify, assess, and connect candidates for matching job opportunities. We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done.

The company is founded by a team of alumni from IIM Ahmedabad, McKinsey with more than 2 decades of experience in recruitment, training and coaching.

About The Client :-

Our client is a global leader in providing of strategy (consulting), software, and managed services solutions in procurement and supply chain domain. It has offices across 21 countries in 6 continents.

The client is seeking an outstanding Product Owner who is willing to be involved in every aspect of the product development process, from brainstorming and strategy to prototyping and delivering the product to the market.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :-

- Be the Subject and domain expert for Procurement and Spend Analytics

- Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities

- Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product

- Follow our competitors and the industry

- Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders for the product line and create requirements

- Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product

- Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner

- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories

- Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to workon

- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy

- Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI

- Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities

- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.

REQUIREMENTS :-

- Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. Masters preferred.

- Previous working experience as a Product Owner for 5 -7 years.

- Experience as a Product Manager with Procurement and spend analytics

- Knowledge of Procurement and Spend Analytics tools like Sievo, Suplari, Coupa, Ariba

- Experience in use of Analytics tools like Tableau, Qlik, Sisense and Domo to create visualizations

- Experience in use of machine learning and AI for solving data analytics issues

- You should have worked with cross-functional execution teams to deliver integrated products

- In-depth knowledge of Agile methodologies.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Strong communication skills, written and verbal.

- Strong presentation skills.

- Ability to multi-task and work under pressure.

- Excellent organization and time management skills.

- Creative thinker with a vision.

- Attention to details.