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Well-known luxury brand is seeking an IT Product Manager – Finance (IT Capabilities). This role is accountable for crafting, building, and maintaining business application solutions/capabilities across the Finance/Tax/Procurement space. They will also be a partner on the development of the roadmap and strategy for the Finance team in conjunction with IT Business Engagement.This role will own all aspects of Finance solutions including being an advocate for solutions, partnering to deliver roadmaps for the future, building new capabilities, and ensuring existing solutions have robust lifecycle management plans. Partnering with internal IT teams, IT business engagement, business clients, and vendors. They will guide a team made up of Business Analysts, Technical Analysts, Application Developers, and Integration Developers to build, improve, and deliver these business capabilities. This includes implementing and improving both purchased applications as well as custom-built solutions.A successful Product Manager will have experience leading IT teams, partnering to understand priorities, and working with business clients to improve the overall IT Product capabilities. Adjusting to the speed and pace of business and technology change, this position will use various delivery approaches and methodologies to ensure the most critical initiatives are crafted and delivered.Responsibilities:
- Product Ownership; Advocating for Finance IT capabilities; build technology solutions/products that align with the overall priorities and strategies of the organization; managing the process of capturing and documenting requirements, selecting and/or crafting solutions, and building and implementing solutions
- Ensure delivery and improvement following the appropriate methodology processes including supervising and reporting mechanisms that align to the project and program delivery standards.
- Lead and develop direct reports through the performance management processes, ongoing mentor, and career discussions. Manages and measures vendor/partner performance.
- Partnering with internal teams, identifying and understanding business strategy, issues and opportunities and assisting the business and IT partners in prioritizing new initiatives and capabilities.
- Partner with Application Support teams to ensure problematic capability areas are changed/improved to reduce impact to business teams and provide a higher level of capabilities.
- As part of the IT Corporate solutions leadership team, lead inside and outside direct areas of accountability by encouraging collaboration, leading and sponsoring continuous process improvement initiatives, and developing roadmap and strategies for the future.
- Bachelor's degree in associated field
- 6+ Years of experience leading Application Development or Product Teams
- Experiencing leading vendor/partner contracts and resources
- Experience leading Product/Development teams leveraging traditional waterfall and agile delivery methodologies.
- Proven experience detailing use cases and functional requirements and experience designing and implementing software/business capabilities.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Strong business acumen
- Retail experience a plus
- Experience with Finance ERP and related solutions including Oracle JDE E1, JDE World, Oracle Retail Sales Audit, Coupa, Vertex, Microsoft Dynamics Navision or other related solutions
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