Product Manager, Supply Planning

blueStone; Downers Grove (IL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fantastic Benefits and Compensation Program

Excellent working environment

Cross functional sales opportunities

Job summary

A leading recruiting firm in Downers Grove is seeking a Product Manager to drive supply planning solutions from concept to delivery. Responsibilities include managing product capability road-maps, collaborating with development teams, and supporting implementation. The ideal candidate has over 6 years of experience in supply planning and business process design, along with proficiency in MS Office applications. This role offers a competitive compensation of $125,000-$150,000 for the first year.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with business process design and supply planning.
• Ability to create and manage product road-maps.
• Strong communication skills for collaborating with teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive supply planning solution capabilities from concept to delivery.
• Gather voice of customer for product requirements.
• Create and manage project plans for implementation.

Skills

Elicitation and analysis

Business process design

Supply planning

Proficiency with MS Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Visio)

Education

Undergraduate/Graduate degree in related field

Tools

APICS Certification

JDA Fulfillment Certification

Job description

blueStone Executive Search has a distinct focus on recruiting IT professionals with an emphasis on the areas of leadership, business transformation and enterprise.

Are you looking for a growing industry in which you can build a rewarding long-term career with an organization that has seen 40% growth year over year.

We are currently looking for outside sales Business Development Executives with backgrounds in IT Search, IT Recruiting, or Outside IT Software Sales. If you are in IT sales and are confident in your sales abilities,then thisopportunity may be for you.

Job Description

The Product Manager role will drive supply planning solution capabilities from concept to delivery. Gather voice of customer for product requirements, research current and emerging tools and processes, define product requirements and processes, plan and execute testing activities, and support deployment of supply planning solutions. Author the supply planning product capability road-map. The product manager will work with stakeholders, development teams, and customers to deliver supply planning solutions.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Create and manage the product capability road-map for the supply planning solution
• Elicit supply planning requirements from customers and define product capability requirements to support known and future supply planning scenarios
• Design standard supply planning business processes that utilizes product capabilities
• Collaborate with supply chain solutions team to integrate supply planning processes with data management, supply planning, reporting, and collaboration components of the supply chain solutions product
• Communicate requirement to development teams and support the functional design activities
• Create test plans and product acceptance criteria
• Support implementation of product by working with customer deployment and operations teams
• Create andmanage project plans and sync with project/program management teams
• Provide on-going product support to customers
• Participate in product demonstrations for potential customers

Qualifications

• Undergraduate/Graduate degree in Supply Chain Management, New Product Development, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 6+ years experience with elicitation, analysis, business process design, and supply planning experience
• Proficiency with MS Office applications (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Visio)
• APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional and JDA Fulfillment Certification, preferred

Additional Information

We offer the following to our Business Development Executives

• Fantastic Benefits and Compensation Program
• Excellent working environment
• Cross functional sales opportunities
• $125,000-$150,000 realistic first year compensation