Product Manager Senior - Supply Chain Technology

Acuity Brands, Inc.; Brossard; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangement

Job summary

Acuity Brands, Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Manager – Product Management Tech (Supply Chain) to own strategy, roadmap, delivery, and ongoing improvement of technology products across supply chain domains.

The role partners with business, technology, data, and implementation teams to translate operational needs into scalable capabilities. Responsibilities include leading discovery and delivery, defining KPIs, and driving adoption across ERP and related platforms while improving service,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field.
• 8+ years of relevant product management or enterprise technology experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning complex enterprise products or capabilities.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes.
• Deep experience in one or more supply chain domains.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision, roadmap, and priorities for assigned supply chain products and capabilities.
• Translate objectives into product capabilities, investments, releases, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead product discovery, prioritization, and backlog management across domains.
• Partner with stakeholders, architects, engineering, and implementation teams to understand processes and opportunities.
• Drive adoption, standardization, and continuous improvement across ERP and related platforms.
• Define KPIs and measure outcomes such as adoption, cost, and service levels.

Skills

Product strategy

Stakeholder management

Agile / Scrum

Cross-functional leadership

Supply chain domain

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business

Tools

Oracle Fusion Cloud

Oracle E-Business Suite

Job description

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Product Manager Senior - Supply Chain Technology

Work Flexibility: Flexible

We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come… for our customers, our communities, and our planet.

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (ABL) and the Intelligent Spaces Group (ISG), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We are positioned at the intersection of sustainability and technology. Our businesses develop technology that helps save our customers energy and reduce their carbon emissions. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and location-aware applications.

Job Summary

Acuity is seeking a Senior Product Manager – Product Management Tech (Supply Chain) to own the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and continuous improvement of technology products supporting critical end-to-end supply chain processes.

This role will serve as the product leader for an assigned supply chain domain, partnering closely with business, technology, data, architecture, and implementation teams to translate operational needs into scalable technology capabilities.

Product domains may include Order Management, Subscription Management, Source-to-Pay, Supplier Management, Manufacturing, Inventory Management, Planning, Fulfillment, and Distribution.

The Senior Product Manager will own capabilities from discovery and prioritization through implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement. The role requires a combination of product management discipline, supply chain domain expertise, and enterprise technology fluency.

The successful candidate will help create standardized yet flexible supply chain capabilities that improve service, reliability, productivity, visibility, cost, and working capital across Acuity.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

Own Product Strategy & Roadmap

Define product vision, roadmap, & near-term priorities for assigned supply chain products & capabilities

Translate enterprise & supply chain objectives into product capabilities, investments, releases, & measurable outcomes & balance strategic platform evolution with immediate operational priorities

Lead Product Discovery & Prioritization

Partner with business stakeholders, end users, architects, engineering, & implementation partners to understand business processes, pain points, & opportunities

Translate business needs into product capabilities, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, & prioritized backlogs

Prioritize opportunities based on business value, user impact, risk, dependencies, strategic alignment, & complexity

Own Supply Chain Technology Capabilities

Serve as the Product Management owner for enterprise technology capabilities supporting the assigned supply chain domain

Drive adoption, standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement across ERP & surrounding supply chain platforms

Understand how capabilities connect across order management, procurement, suppliers, planning, manufacturing, inventory, warehousing, distribution, fulfillment, & related enterprise platforms

Drive Cross-Functional Alignment

Act as the primary technology product partner for business leaders & process owners within the assigned domain.

Partner across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Distribution, Customer Operations, Commercial, Finance, & Technology teams

Translate complex business and technology topics into product decisions, priorities, tradeoffs, & recommendations

Lead Product Delivery

Partner with engineering, architecture, integration, data, security, testing, & implementation teams through the product lifecycle

Own & prioritize the product backlog & participate in solution design, sprint & release planning, testing, readiness, deployment, and stabilization

Ensure delivered capabilities meet business objectives, user needs, architectural direction, & acceptance criteria

Enable Data, Analytics, & Visibility

Identify operational data, metrics, alerts, exception-management capabilities, & analytics required to manage the assigned supply chain processes

Partner with data & analytics teams to improve visibility & operational decision-making

Define product KPIs & measure outcomes such as adoption, cycle time, service levels, productivity, automation, inventory, cost, working capital, reliability, & exception reduction

Partner with business process owners & change-management teams to support rollout, communication, training, readiness, & adoption

Remain close to users & operations to understand how products perform in day-to-day environments & identify opportunities for improvement

Use operational metrics, product analytics, & user feedback to evolve the product roadmap.

Supply Chain Domain Areas

Own or support technology capabilities across 1+ supply chain domains, including:

• Subscription Management
• Source-to-Pay
• Manufacturing
• Inventory Management
• Planning & Material Flow

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• 8+ years of relevant product management, technology product ownership, enterprise applications, supply chain technology, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning or materially influencing complex enterprise technology products or capabilities.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes.
• Deep functional experience in one or more supply chain domains such as Order Management, Source-to-Pay, Procurement, Supplier Management, Manufacturing, Inventory, Planning, Fulfillment, or Distribution.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business processes and operational challenges into technology capabilities and product requirements.
• Experience working across business, architecture, engineering, integration, data, security, testing, and implementation teams.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives through influence in a matrixed environment

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and/or Oracle E-Business Suite in a supply chain context.
• Enterprise platforms supporting Order Management, Subscription Management, Procurement, Supplier Management, Manufacturing, Inventory, Planning, WMS, TMS, MES, or supply-chain execution.
• Enterprise integrations including APIs, middleware, EDI, event-driven integrations, and cloud integration platforms.
• Enterprise data platforms, analytics, and supply-chain reporting solutions.
• Multi-business-unit, multi-ERP, or multi-site enterprise environments.
• Major ERP or supply-chain transformation programs.
• Agile/Product certifications such as CSPO, SAFe PO/PM, Scrum, or similar certifications.

Travel Requirements

• 1-20%

To Be Successful in This Role

Success requires strong product-management capabilities combined with meaningful supply-chain domain expertise.

Ability to establish product direction, make prioritization decisions, maintain a product roadmap, and lead products through discovery, delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement.

Supply Chain Expertise

Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes with deep experience in one or more domains such as:

• Order Management and Fulfillment
• Subscription Management
• Source-to-Pay and Procurement
• Supplier Management and Collaboration
• Manufacturing
• Inventory Management
• Planning
• Warehousing and Distribution

Enterprise Technology Fluency

Experience working with enterprise platforms supporting supply chain operations.

Ability to understand business processes, application capabilities, data, integrations, architecture, and user experience sufficiently to make effective product decisions.

Strategic and Operational Mindset

Ability to think strategically about enterprise capabilities and technology architecture while remaining close enough to operations to understand day-to-day user and process challenges.

Stakeholder Leadership

Ability to work effectively with business leaders, process owners, operations teams, architects, engineers, vendors, implementation partners, and end users.

Strong ability to influence without authority and drive stakeholders toward clear decisions.

Product Delivery Discipline

Experience operating in Agile or product-oriented delivery environments, including defining capabilities, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, releases, and measurable outcomes.

Comfort with Complexity

Ability to operate within a complex, multi-business-unit and multi-site environment while managing dependencies, competing priorities, ambiguity, and evolving business requirements.

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Knowledge of French is required for positions permanently located in Quebec so incumbents can communicate with their colleagues and suppliers in Quebec as necessary. French-language training is offered to all incumbents in permanent positions in Quebec who do not have a good knowledge of French.