Senior Product Owner, Source to Pay

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Summary A Senior Product Owner is responsible for organizing, prioritizing, and assessing work for Agile teams while driving the strategic direction, roadmap, and delivery of critical Source to Receipt and Enterprise Payables capabilities. This role serves as the product leader for the supply chain, procurement, inventory management and accounts payables domains, partnering closely with business stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to deliver scalable solutions that improve operational efficiency, financial outcomes, and customer experience. The Senior Product Owner is accountable for translating business strategy into actionable product roadmaps, managing and prioritizing backlogs, defining user stories and acceptance criteria, and ensuring delivery of measurable business value. This position partners with business and technology teams to optimize and modernize solutions leveraging SAP Procurement, SAP Ariba, SAP Materials Management, SAP Accounts Payables, Open Text Vendor Invoice Management etc. across the entire source to pay and procure to pay value chain, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, compliance requirements, and organizational objectives. The Senior Product Owner drives continuous improvement, supports digital transformation initiatives, and enables delivery teams to successfully execute against product commitments while advancing the long-term vision for these capabilities. Key Responsibilities ·         Builds customer and internal-facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals, accountable for an established or moderate complexity product. ·         Ensures alignment between teams to build and prioritize product roadmaps, plan releases, and align them with business objectives. ·         Collaborate with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to address and resolve issues that arise during product development. ·         Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams, such as Research and Development, User Experience (UX), and business and operations teams, to align product strategies, gather insights, and plan releases. ·         Identifies product-related issues, makes decisions and continuously does trade-off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments. ·         Prioritizes the short-term feature backlog and releases, as well as the long-term product roadmap for products. ·         Conducts customer research, product discovery and synthesizes market factors into a cohesive product strategy. ·         Collaborate with customers to understand challenges & opportunities. ·         Collects quantitative data and takes a data driven approach to evaluate the viability of product initiatives. ·         Writes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives; ensures stories clearly communicate the customer, and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product; promotes Agile approaches to product development across teams/areas   Education and Experience ·         Bachelor’s degree in information systems preferred, related field or equivalent experience. ·         5+ years of relevant experience required ·         Experience supporting Source to Receipt, Enterprise Payables (Source to Pay/Procure to Pay) business capabilities is required ·         Experience with SAP MM (Materials Management) and SAP Procurement and Accounts Payables preferred ·         Experience within the energy, manufacturing, or transportation industries preferred. ·         Product Owner Certification (CSPO, PSPO) preferred. Skills