About the position
As a key member of our Enterprise Technology Group, you'll play a critical part in crafting the future of mobility. If you're looking for the chance to bring to bear advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience, and improve people's lives, this is your opportunity. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help build vehicles that are as inquisitive as you are. Ford is in the middle of a major Supply Chain Transformation. Supply chain planning and optimization being one of the core capabilities that will be enabled through digital capabilities. This will help ford deliver its quality products at faster pace and optimal cost to its customers. We're seeking a seasoned Product Manager who brings combination of the core Supply chain skills and experience of deploying supply chain planning solutions.
Responsibilities
- Plans and conducts customer research to gather data and discover problems through user and stakeholder interviews.
- Validates researched data to bring leading indicators in focus, allowing the team to actively analyze, synthesize and determine valuable product/service options.
- Iteratively hypothesizes and discovers new opportunities for the customer's needs/desires, aligning with business objectives and technical standards.
- Seeks continuous feedback, emphasizing the importance of research-driven product decisions.
- Plans and conducts business process mapping workshops, idea generating sessions and facilitates prioritization of relevant ideas and defining minimum viable product requirements.
- Engages with the product owner and team to prioritize and define product strategy and roadmaps.
- Collaborate with vendors to design, develop, document, and maintain software/hardware prototypes, two-way data integrations.
- Collaborate with external and internal technical peers (product managers, business system analysts, software engineers, architects, and vendors) to design and validate technical approaches and designs.
- Contribute to maintain a readied backlog and enable the team to go further with effective usage of Rally/Jira.
- Advocate the use of Agile methodologies to meet stakeholder requirements.
- Assist in estimation, systems testing, triage and debugging sessions for optimization tool data integration issues and helps track product and data quality metrics.
- Utilize statistical and optimization tools and programming languages to conduct data integration through extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) and create models to generate optimized recommendations.
- Configures and tests a solution based on (home grown/commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications to meet functional and non-functional requirements.
