Business Analyst / Product Manager - Supply Chain – Permanent Role On behalf of our client in the Automotive Sector, PROCOM is looking for a Business Analyst / Product Manager - Supply Chain. Business Analyst / Product Manager - Supply Chain - Job Description
- As the IT Product Owner, you will be responsible for working with Business and Technical teams (the bridge) on the application / product strategy, roadmap and execution
- The successful candidate will enjoy helping the team succeed by thinking about ways to improve processes, suggesting ways to make the team more effective, mentoring and modeling industry best practices
- With a broad understanding of Supply Chain systems and business operations, the IT Product Owner role is intended to accomplish the following objectives :
- Lead business workshops to define the application / product vision, roadmap, growth opportunities and communicate with stakeholders throughout the project
- Collaborate with internal and external contacts to analyze needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals
- Build collaborative relationships with other teams and stakeholders within IT, business, vendors and other affiliates
- Work closely with various business teams to create and maintain product backlog according to business value or ROI
- Partner with the Delivery Lead on projects
- Plan and prioritize product development and product feature backlog
- Develop detailed product feature specifications (user stories) and ensure the user stories / requirements are clearly understood by relevant teams
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with product strategy
- Mitigate roadblocks to achieving sprint / release goals
- Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
- Serve as product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions
- Help ensure that increasingly integrated and complex projects are executed without problems
- Partner with stakeholders across business units (e.g. : sales, finance, security, compliance) to develop analyses and project documentation in a collaborative way
- Evaluate, analyze and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis, and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of periodic status reports to stakeholders
- Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation
- Conduct requirements gathering by facilitating required meetings, liaising / interacting with the business to elicit information, preparing documentation and conducting project presentations
- Lead Training sessions and User Testing (UAT) phases to avoid incidents related to inadequately tested or improperly ordered changes
- Conduct Situation, Decision, Cost and Benefit Analysis when appropriate
Business Analyst / Product Manager - Supply Chain - Mandatory Skills
Post-secondary education or equivalent experience5+ years of progressive experience in the IT industry with strong knowledge of Supply Chain systems and processesExperience in delivering complex and multi-stakeholder projectsExperience with agile, hybrid agile and waterfall practices (especially Agile / Scrum) and an ability to help lead our journey to reinvent how we drive our practices to become faster and more productive while not compromising both security and complianceExperience in IT Product Owner and Business AnalystExperience facilitating sessions, helping participants reach decisions and accomplish goalsDemonstrate leadership skills and ability to foster cross-team alignmentAbility to coach and support teams on concepts and processesAbility to lead and facilitate sessions (e.g. workshops), resolve disagreements between stakeholdersAbility to conduct high level interactions with the business at an equivalent or higher level of seniority and to engage in difficult discussionsAbility to use verbal communication to disseminate complex conceptsAbility to define and author clear and succinct project documents and to create engaging diagramsAbility to create, present and publish the project status to senior level managementExcellent analytical, interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills with a strategic approach to workAbility to work independently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.Ability to work on multiple projects and / or deliverables concurrentlyAbility to adapt and repivotCreativityEmotional intelligenceSupply Chain skillsOrganizational skillsSales skillsStrong leadership skillsTechnical skillsBusiness Analyst / Product Manager - Supply Chain - Assignment Start Date ASAP – Permanent Role Business Analyst / Product Manager - Supply Chain - Assignment Location Toronto, ON – Work Hybrid