Job Description:
The Digital Technologies Product Owner (Architect) - Plan & Deliver is the senior end-to-end technology product owner for supply chain planning and delivery capabilities across Mars Snacking AMEA, responsible for product strategy, architecture direction, roadmap, portfolio priorities, delivery and value realization.
The role serves as the primary regional DT partner for Supply Chain, Planning, Customer Service, Order Management, Logistics and Distribution, connecting the Global Product direction with AMEA business priorities, cluster requirements, Enterprise & TLT CoE delivery and sustainment.
The scope spans the end-to-end Plan & Deliver lifecycle: demand and supply planning, S&OP/IBP, production and inventory planning, supplier and network planning, deployment planning, customer and product master-data dependencies, Order-to-Cash (O2C), customer service and order management, fulfilment, warehousing, transportation, shipment visibility, distribution and related integrations.
Kinaxis is a core strategic platform within Enterprise Planning. The Product Owner must understand how Kinaxis planning capabilities and data requirements integrate with the regional SAP ECC and S/4HANA landscapes and downstream execution processes, while also managing relevant regional capabilities and transition from existing planning solutions.
The role combines business partnership, end-to-end product ownership, architecture direction, delivery leadership, deployment, adoption, sustainment and continuous improvement to create an integrated Plan & Deliver landscape that improves planning quality, service, inventory, fulfilment, logistics performance, resilience and business outcomes.
What will be your key responsibilities?
End-to-End Plan & Deliver Product Ownership:
Own the AMEA Plan & Deliver product strategy, roadmap, portfolio, backlog, priorities, releases, dependencies, risks, adoption and value realization across planning through customer delivery.
Serve as the primary regional DT product partner for Supply Chain, Demand and Supply Planning, Customer Service, Order Management, Warehousing, Transportation, Logistics and Distribution stakeholders.
Translate business priorities into scalable product capabilities, architecture direction, delivery outcomes and measurable value, aligned with Global Product roadmaps and enterprise standards.
Maintain an end-to-end view across planning and execution so optimization of one capability does not create unintended impacts across manufacturing, inventory, orders, logistics, Finance or customer service.
Lead regional deployment of global products and templates while governing justified AMEA requirements and reducing unnecessary local customization.
Enterprise Planning & Kinaxis:
Provide regional product leadership for Enterprise Planning with Kinaxis at the core of the transformation, spanning Demand, Supply, production, inventory, supplier and network planning.
Partner with Global Product and Program teams on Kinaxis roadmap, deployment waves, process standardization, regional readiness, adoption and value realization.
Ensure planning design is connected to the required SAP and non-SAP master data, including Product/Material, Location, Supplier, Customer, BOM, Resources and Transportation Lanes, and to the processes that maintain these data domains.
Ensure the Kinaxis planning model integrates effectively with SAP ECC/S/4HANA and downstream execution, while recognizing relevant existing regional planning capabilities during transition.
Partner with business, Data & Analytics, Master Data Management, integration teams and Product Owners to resolve process, data, integration and governance dependencies affecting planning outcomes.
Order-to-Cash, Customer Service & Fulfilment:
Own the technology product direction for the O2C and customer fulfilment lifecycle within Plan & Deliver, with strong understanding of customer and business-partner master data, sales orders, order validation,…