Hiring | Product Owner Supply Chain Collaboration & Direct Procurement
We are looking for an experienced
Product Owner to drive the evolution of
Direct Procurement and Supply Chain Collaboration platforms.
Location: Hyderabad
Experience: 10+ years
Key Expertise Required
- Direct Procurement / Source-to-Pay (S2P)
- SAP S/4HANA & SAP MM
- SAP Ariba SCC / Ariba Business Network
- Supplier Collaboration & Supplier Onboarding
- Purchase Order Collaboration, ASN & Inventory Visibility
- B2B / EDI / API integrations
- Agile Product Ownership & Product Roadmap
- Enterprise SAP implementation / transformation experience
We are particularly interested in professionals who have
hands-on procurement and supplier collaboration experience, rather than candidates with only exposure to these areas.
Job Purpose
- This role is responsible for the ongoing evolution of direct procurement technology landscape including SAP materials management processes and automation of end to end transactional processes with suppliers.
- We are building and deploying a Global, Cross Segment Template for Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC).
- The role will lead the strategy, implementation, and ongoing optimization of supply chain collaboration platforms and processes across procurement, logistics, suppliers, and operations.
- The position is focused on driving digital transformation initiatives that enhance supplier collaboration, improve transaction visibility, strengthen inventory management and ASN processing, and increase overall operational efficiency.
- The role also includes responsibility for Direct Procurement processes and technologies that operate outside of the Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC) environment.
- As the Product Owner, the individual serves as the voice of the customer throughout the product delivery lifecycle, ensuring the product vision is clearly communicated across the organization.
- The role requires leading and motivating cross-functional teams toward defined objectives, managing stakeholder relationships, and supporting enterprise platform implementations within Agile delivery environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and drive the product vision, roadmap, and strategy for supply chain collaboration solutions aligned with business objectives.
- Lead end-to-end product lifecycle management for supplier collaboration platforms and related procurement technologies.
- Manage and prioritize the product backlog by balancing business priorities, customer needs, and technical requirements.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Scrum Masters, DevSecOps Leads, architects, and development teams to enable agile delivery and informed product decisions.
- Serve as the voice of the customer by translating business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements.
- Oversee capabilities including purchase order collaboration, ASN management, inventory visibility, replenishment, invoicing, supplier onboarding, and integration processes.
- Ensure seamless integration with ERP, WMS, TMS, and supplier systems through EDI, B2B, and API-based solutions.
- Drive process standardization, automation, and digital transformation initiatives across global supply chain operations.
- Monitor product performance and operational effectiveness through KPIs, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms.
- Facilitate sprint planning, agile ceremonies, UAT, release management, and deployment coordination to ensure successful product delivery.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across procurement, logistics, planning, operations, and IT to align on priorities and transformation initiatives.
- Support governance, compliance, risk management, and operational excellence initiatives across the product landscape.
- Lead business rollout planning, change management activities, and stakeholder communications to support adoption and business readiness.
- Mentor and support junior product owners, analysts, and functional team members to strengthen team capability and delivery excellence.
- Seek and implement opportunities to improve the end to end capabilities through process intelligence, analytics and AI.
Context And Scope
- The role operates across segments and functions partnering with identified SCC SMEs, GPOs, Functional Experts, and functional Business Partnership Managers to co-create SCC shared template capability, supplier activation strategy and deployment roadmap.
- It brings in external/best practice insights & trends from vendors, analysts and peer companies to influence and drive business transformation at scale.
- It participates in relevant Governance forums for the Product Line inc. Governance Council, Scrum Meetings, Product Ceremonies (daily stand ups, sprint planning, backlog refinements, playback)
- It works with the Product Manager to ensure appropriate resources are secured for technology delivery.
- It works through influencing and direct control depending on the nature of the capability.
Job Specification/Education
- Bachelor s degree in IT or Business Management.
- SAP certifications in SAP MM and SAP Ariba SCC, preferred.
Knowledge And Experience
- 7+ years of business functional or SAP implementation experience in Supply Chain, direct procurement, Ariba Business Network.
- Strong functional and technical expertise in SAP S/4HANA Source-to-Pay and SAP Business Network solutions.
- Experience delivering at least 2 full lifecycle SAP implementations across direct/indirect procurement, supplier collaboration, and order management processes.
- Hands-on experience with SAP MM, Ariba SCC.
- Strong understanding of procurement, logistics, supplier management, and supply chain collaboration processes.
- Experience with B2B integrations, EDI transactions, APIs, and supplier connectivity solutions.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies including S/4HANA, SAP Ariba SCC enhancements, RPA, Machine Learning, and AI solutions.
- Proven experience in Agile/Scrum product ownership and enterprise product management practices.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale digital transformation and business transformation initiatives.
- Strong project, program, budget, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills.
