Product Line Lead - Sales & Distribution Director

Job Description

Director, Product Line Lead - Sales & Distribution

Job duties:

• Serve as IT Architect and lead multiple product teams for Order to Cash & Transportation Management Solutions - Design, build and deliver technical solutions aligned with the Product technology evolution roadmap.
• Develop and maintain an excellent understanding of the IT product roadmap by working closely with business stakeholders, evaluating user feedback/needs and looking at technology trends.
• Source additional insight and best practices to design, plan, and scope optimal product functionality.
• Build the strategy and vision for Business Planning and Consolidation Product Line products that will enable the tools that will improve business efficiencies.
• Serve as Product Line lead with the presence to present ideas with supporting data to align the technical team, leadership, and stakeholders to the same compelling vision for product success.
• Work closely with relevant business functions to develop/test new ideas and propositions for product development influence and obtain buy-in.
• Identify business value in alignment with strategic priorities, financial benefits, and stakeholder needs.
• Articulate the value of the product through usage, standard/automated operational metrics, and financial performance metrics.
• Maintain knowledge of technology innovation and develop and maintain IT product strategy and vision.
• Translate product strategy into a product roadmap, identifying and generating new ideas that drive business value and improve user experience.
• Work closely with other IT Architects and development teams to understand the technology enablers/constraints for new product ideas.
• Engage with other software technologies and vendors to understand the new capabilities and functionality for potential enhancements.
• Build funding model/business case for new product development.
• Collect and analyze data to drive innovation and decision making.
• Work closely with the Product Owners to ensure they have a good understanding of the new features/epics allowing them to develop user stories that will deliver what is needed.
• Support Product Owners in prioritizing the product backlog for development.
• Act as IT subject matter expert for development teams providing additional product insight as needed/requested by Product Owners.
• Work collaboratively with other IT Product Line leads to refine and prioritize the overall product roadmap and identify dependencies.
• Set goals for product outcomes and metrics, then closely track solutions to ensure they achieve expected results.
• Communicate critical business-impacting incidents to leaders in a timely manner and ensure they are communicated in business language; provide cross-functional team coordination to remediate critical issues and ensure ongoing status is communicated and contingency options that best support the business are provided.
• Ensure effective leadership and management of the team and individuals; maintain a continuous learning environment, set clear objectives to ensure there is clarity on what needs to be achieved for any given initiative.
• Work with HR to develop upskilling/training opportunities to build and maintain a high level of skills proficiency in the team.
• Build an effective and motivational team environment, aligning behaviors, values and performance expectations across the team to deliver exceptional results.
• Function as a communication bridge between users located in Mexico, USA, Italy, and New Zealand.
• Supervise Product Managers.

• Working in corporate and IT Consulting environments with multiple disciplines to deliver projects in line with Business strategic goals.
• SAP Order to Cash and SAP TMS.
• Working in the international Food and Beverage industries.
• Managing on-site and remote multi-disciplinary teams.
• Mexican beverage alcohol regulatory requirements relating to tax, customs, pricing, reporting and related documentation requirements.
• Managing multiple complex projects at a global level.
• Sales and Distribution areas (Order Management, ATP, Invoicing, Pricing and Compliance, Digital Invoice Mexico).
• Delivering IT solutions in an Agile based product management framework.
• Managing SAP (On-Prem/Cloud) & TMS Solutions.