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Job Description
- Product Management overall accountability, including lifecycle management for services and products. This will involve management of both Associate & partner resourcing
- Managing vendor relationships and defining the requirements of the vendor services
- Providing regular reports to product consumers
- Directly influencing the development and deployment of the product
- Establishing KPIs for products and overseeing regular and ongoing data analysis to inform product evolution
- Escalation point for any business demands, working with a variety of stakeholders across MGS & the segments
- Engaging and collaborating, developing productive ways of working with other internal DT teams (for example: Platform, Database, Security, Processing, Deployment, Development, other BCF towers in BDS, etc.)
- Budget management for all product area and functions
- Role modeling agile behaviours & methods with customers and peers
- Engaging, building & developing the team to be positioned to contribute to forthcoming transformation projects in the ERP space
What are we looking for?
- Experience working on SAP IT Products and Services, particularly in the Finance area
- Experience of Financial Operations as a business process would be useful to have
- Flexible, agile learner, ready to develop their functional skillset in an area which is evolving & digitalising quickly
- Functional & technical knowledge in ERP solutions
- Demonstrate people leadership capability, particularly in a remote & global environment
- Able to negotiate & collaborate with stakeholders to set priorities for themselves & the team
- Financial and Budget management experience
- Good stakeholder management & communications skills
- Experience in vendor management
- ITIL, PMI, Agile, DevOps, Scrum certifications will be a plus
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Lead, engage and develop the Associate & partner team to run & enhance the existing ERP services
- Develop capability in themselves & the team to meet the challenges we expect from ERP transformation over the coming years
- Work with our MGS Finance & other Digital Technologies stakeholders (include partners) to increase the efficiency & resilience of our key business processes such as Period End Close, and to enhance & simplify our change processes
- Build a trusting, collaborative One Team relationship with key stakeholders within the team and elsewhere in Mars
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- Manufacturing, Food and Beverage Services, and Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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