IT Digital Product Manager -Supply Chain Accounting

The Sherwin-Williams Company; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Sherwin-Williams Company seeks a Digital Product Manager for Planning, Inventory, and Manufacturing (PMI) Finance to own strategy, roadmaps, and end-to-end delivery of costing, supply chain accounting, and intercompany capabilities.

You will align with enterprise objectives and ETG standards while partnering with Owners, Process, Deployment, DT Engineering, Testing, and Data Governance teams to drive scalable, compliant solutions.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical- or business-related field.
• 8+ years product or project management experience.
• 8+ years delivering technology solutions including enterprise applications.
• 3+ years of project management experience.
• Experience in Costing or Intercompany Accounting.
• Experience owning roadmaps and defining features.
• Experience with end-to-end product delivery.
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
• Experience owning technology products.
• Experience managing internal and external stakeholders.
• NPD / Stage Gate process experience.
• Knowledge of manufacturing or inventory processes.
• 6+ years Oracle or similar SCM applications.
• 3+ years IT project and enterprise implementations.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives.
• Resource allocation to product teams.
• Financial acumen for budgets and value creation.

Responsibilities

• Understand competition, customer analysis, market research to support ETG objectives.
• Drive product strategy across core business and enterprise applications with leadership.
• Develop business cases for new products and improvements with Value Management.
• Own digital product vision and roadmaps, program backlog and feature acceptance criteria.
• Recommend pricing, cost analysis, and internal ROI for products.
• Be the voice of the customer by prioritizing features based on feedback and feasibility.
• Collaborate with process and program teams to define roadmaps and initiatives.
• Coordinate development for multiple projects including specs, scope, and requirements in Finance processes.
• Lead product owners and partner with technical teams to meet community needs.
• Collaborate with product owners to understand user stories, dependencies, and issue escalation.
• Lead product owners to build strong practices across the organization and ETG.
• Develop solutions to product and customer issues across regions and functions.
• Support ETG Product function through performance management, training, and process improvements.

Skills

Product management

Costing

Supply chain accounting

Intercompany accounting

Roadmap strategy

End-to-end delivery

Stakeholder management

Data governance awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical- or business-related field

Tools

Oracle

Job description

The Digital Product Manager - Planning, Inventory, Manufacturing (PMI) Finance accountable for the strategy, vision, roadmap, and endtoend delivery of costing, supply chain accounting, and intercompany accounting capabilities across Sherwin-Williams' global supply chain. This role ensures alignment to enterprise business objectives, program governance, and Enterprise Technology Group (ETG) delivery standards. The Product Manager partners closely with Product Owners, Process, Deployment, DT Engineering, Testing, and Data Governance teams to drive scalable, high-quality solutions that support operational, financial, and compliance requirements.

• Understand Sherwin Williams competition, customer analysis, market research and competitive analysis skills to complete these tasks to support the objectives of the Enterprise Technology Group
• Drive the product strategy across core business and enterprise applications working closely with the business leadership and process managers
• Develops the business case for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures in coordination with Value Management and business leadership
• Own the digital product vision and roadmaps, program backlog and establish feature acceptance criteria while driving objectives in alignment to overall SW strategy
• Recommends or contributes information in setting digital product pricing, understands product cost analysis, and producing an internal return rate
• Acts as the "voice" of the customer articulating the user's needs by prioritizing features and enhancements based on customer feedback, business impact, and technical feasibility
• Collaborate with process and program teams to define the product roadmaps, community user groups, and other program initiatives
• Coordinate aspects of development for multiple projects including specifications, scope, and requirements within key business processes that impact Finance (Order to Cash, Source to Pay, Planning/Manufacturing/Inventory, Acquire to Retire, and Record to Report)
• Lead product owners and partner with technical personnel to ensure our products and services meet the needs of the community
• Closely collaborate with the product owners to understand the development of business need user-stories, support inter-team dependencies, and help them identify/escalate issues at the earliest.
• Lead product owners to build strong practices throughout the organization and Enterprise Technology Group
• Develop solutions to product and customer issues by collaborating across regions, process areas, and functions
• Support the Enterprise Technology Group Product function through effective performance management, career development, training, continuous process improvements

This position is not hybrid/remote and will be located at our Cleveland Headquarters office.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.

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.

Must be eighteen years or older

This position is also eligible for bonus based on performance and subject to the terms of the Company's applicable plans.

Minimum Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical- or business-related field
• 8+ years of product management or equivalent project management experience
• 8+ years leading delivery of technology solutions including business-specific and enterprise
  applications in alignment with business objectives
• 3+ years of managing projects
• Experience in Costing, Supply Chain Accounting, or Intercompany Accounting
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience with end-to-end product delivery
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience owning technology products
• Experience of managing internal and external stakeholders
• New Product Development / Stage Gate process experience
• Prior knowledge of key process and technical products within Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or
  Inventory
• 6+ years Oracle or other industry leading applications experience with various Supply Chain modules
• 3+ years managing IT technology projects and enterprise level implementations
• Understanding of supply chain management solutions and business processes
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple initiatives
• Expertise in allocation of resources (people, tools, environment) to enable Product teams to deliver
  on strategic goals
• Financial acumen to manage and adhere to plans, budgets, and value creation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Supervisory experience or team responsibility
• 1+ years delivering product-based solutions
• Experience in hybrid project delivery environments
• Experience in transformational projects or enterprise level initiatives
• Experience in enterprise level solutioning through data driven insights
• Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
• Prior product management experience and leading teams effectively

Travel: 10%