Product Owner, Supply Chain & Procurement

Versant Media is seeking a Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog for SAP S/4HANA capabilities that support procurement, inventory, and related finance processes. This role delivers scalable solutions across procure-to-pay and connected order-to-cash workflows within an Agile delivery model.

Core Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog for supply chain, procurement, and related finance capabilities.
• Define customer and business problems to solve, desired outcomes, and success measures across the end-to-end workflow.
• Convert business objectives into prioritized epics, user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria, and incremental release plans.
• Balance customer value, business impact, technical feasibility, risk, compliance needs, and delivery timelines.
• Break larger initiatives into smaller releases to support continuous delivery, learning, and measurable improvements.
• Define and monitor KPIs covering adoption, process efficiency, procurement compliance, spend visibility, inventory accuracy, and user satisfaction.
• Lead discovery and requirements-gathering sessions with procurement, supply chain, finance, warehouse, sales, customer service, and IT stakeholders.
• Assess current-state workflows, pain points, and control requirements for procure-to-pay and connected order-to-cash processes.
• Facilitate future-state process design, identify gaps and dependencies, document decisions, and align stakeholders on scope and priorities.
• Validate assumptions using stakeholder feedback, operational data, and system insights before major investment.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows using SAP capabilities, process simplification, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Maintain deep understanding of core procurement, inventory, finance, and cross-functional business processes.
• Partner with SAP functional consultants, engineers, QA, integration teams, and data teams, while coordinating with business process owners to remove ambiguity.
• Define integration requirements across SAP S/4HANA MM, SD, FI/CO, warehouse operations, tax, payment, logistics, customer, supplier, and third-party systems.
• Validate end-to-end business and accounting impacts across requisition-to-payment, inventory, sales-order-to-billing, and financial reporting.
• Participate in and lead Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
• Prioritize defects, enhancements, and change requests based on business impact, urgency, risk, compliance, and roadmap value.
• Support implementation activities including master-data readiness, data migration, testing, cutover planning, release readiness, hypercare, and post-launch stabilization.
• Coordinate business testing by defining test scenarios, test data, acceptance criteria, and success measures for end-to-end processes.
• Support system integration testing, UAT, regression testing, defect triage, and business sign-off.
• Serve as the liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap priorities, progress, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintain organized documentation in Confluence, including business-process materials, requirements, decisions, and release information.
• Use Jira and Slack to manage backlog transparency, delivery workflow, stakeholder communication, and issue resolution.
• Support change management through training materials, process documentation, release communications, stakeholder demonstrations, and adoption feedback.
• Build trusted relationships across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Technology, and external implementation partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Finance, Supply Chain, Business, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, SAP functional delivery professional, or similar role in a technology-driven organization.
• Experience owning and prioritizing a product backlog in an Agile delivery environment.
• Experience delivering SAP S/4HANA procure-to-pay, materials management, inventory, finance integration, or related enterprise capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of procurement processes, including requisitioning, purchasing, approvals, receiving, inventory, invoice verification, supplier management, and payment workflows.
• Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA MM and FI/CO integration concepts; familiarity with SAP SD and order-to-cash processes preferred.
• Experience supporting SAP implementations, including testing, data migration, cutover, or post-go-live stabilization.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, QA, design, data, integration, and SAP functional teams.
• Effective stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Comfortable working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong ability to write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and business requirements.
• Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Highly detail-oriented with strong organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong judgment in managing priorities, resources, risks, dependencies, and delivery trade-offs.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and Slack.

Technologies

• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP S/4HANA Materials Management (MM)
• SAP S/4HANA Sales and Distribution (SD)
• SAP FI/CO
• SAP
• Jira
• Confluence
• Slack

Desired Characteristics

• Experience with SAP SD configuration and integration concepts, including order-to-cash, pricing, billing, customer master data, and financial postings.
• Familiarity with SAP MM configuration concepts, including purchasing organizations, plants, storage locations, purchasing documents, release strategies, invoice tolerances, and movement types.
• Experience in media or entertainment.
• Ability to investigate and learn unfamiliar systems quickly.
• Experience applying automation, analytics, or AI capabilities to improve finance, procurement, supply chain, or business workflows.

Additional Information

• External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of its locations prior to a hiring decision.
• VERSANT Media is an equal employment opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities or disabled veterans.
• Compensation is based on skills, qualifications, experience, and location, and may include additional benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.
• VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this opportunity.