Product Owner - PS Other Systems - Global Industrial

Motion; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion offers an opportunity for a senior Product Owner to shape the vision and governance of our product lines in the US. The role partners with cross-functional teams to identify customer needs, prioritize features, and drive releases from inception through End of Life.

You will lead roadmap development, analyze business impacts, and mentor team members. The position requires a Bachelor's degree with eight+ years of related experience and a background with enterprise systems; visa sponsorship

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and eight (8) or more years of related experience or an equivalent combination.
• Experience with enterprise systems and processes is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manages the most complex products through the entire lifecycle, and supports decisions regarding enhancements throughout the lifecycle until product End of Life (EOL).
• Makes key decisions for product/solution development lifecycle process to be implemented throughout the organization.
• Contributes to innovative ideas on the program risk management plan and drives mitigation and resolutions
• Advocates to drive consistent and accurate cross functional program metrics.
• Designs program management practices and collaborates with and mentors other members of the product management org.
• Contributes expertise in the product management concepts internally and externally.
• Reviews and prioritizes backlog for sprint planning, including coordination of dependencies.
• Analyzes impacts of proposed solutions across the business, develops use cases to explain business requirements to the IT team, and contributes a business process perspective during design review.
• Owns, develops and executes product roadmap.
• Collaborates with business owners, product scrum team, and stakeholders to establish timelines, workflows, and goals.
• Participates in design sessions to gain insights into end user and customer needs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Team leadership

Communication skills

Mentoring/Coaching

Negotiation skills

Influence others

Presentation skills

Financial and analytical experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Sage FAS

IBM PAC

Blackline

BillTrust

SAP Concur

CoStar

Job description

Summary

The Product Owner IV is responsible for defining the overall process vision, and innovation, and helps lead the product development process within Motion IT. This role identifies the customer, stakeholder, and development team's needs and works with each cross‑functional team. The Product Owner gathers feature requests, schedules releases, and coordinates sprints. This role manages the development project from start to finish.

Summary

The Product Owner IV is responsible for defining the overall process vision, and innovation, and helps lead the product development process within Motion IT. This role identifies the customer, stakeholder, and development team's needs and works with each cross‑functional team. The Product Owner gathers feature requests, schedules releases, and coordinates sprints. This role manages the development project from start to finish.

You must be eligible to work in the US without Visa Sponsorship

Job Duties

• Manages the most complex products through the entire lifecycle, and supports decisions regarding enhancements throughout the lifecycle until product End of Life(EOL).
• Makes key decisions for product/solution development lifecycle process to be implemented throughout the organization.
• Contributes to innovative ideas on the program risk management plan and drives mitigation and resolutions
• advocates to drive consistent and accurate cross functional program metrics.
• Designs program management practices and collaborates with and mentors other members of the product management org.
• Contributes expertise in the product management concepts internally and externally.
• Reviews and prioritizes backlog for sprint planning, including coordination of dependencies.
• Analyzes impacts of proposed solutions across the business, develops use cases to explain business requirements to the IT team, and contributes a business process perspective during design review.
• Owns, develops and executes product roadmap.
• Collaborates with business owners, product scrum team, and stakeholders to establish timelines, workflows, and goals.
• Participates in design sessions to gain insights into end user and customer needs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience

Typically requires a bachelor's degree and eight (8) or more years of related experience or an equivalent combination. Experience with: Sage FAS, IBM PAC, Blackline, BillTrust, SAP Concur, or CoStar - Preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with a demonstrated ability to identify, analyze, and synthesize product use data and use that data to drive decisions.
• Solid understanding of the competition and business environment.
• Ability to lead, motivate and direct a workgroup.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to work Cross‑Functionally.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Mentoring/Coaching skills.
• Negotiation skills.
• Expert ability influence others to achieve results. Presentation skills.
• Financial and analytical experience.

LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS:

None required.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:

No Supervisory Responsibility

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY:

No

COMPANY INFORMATION:

• Motion offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay.

DISCLAIMER:

This job description illustrates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and skills required. Management retains the right to add or modify duties at any time.

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