BDS Finance ERP Product Manager

Job Description

Job Description:

• Product Management overall accountability, in including lifecycle management for services and products. This will involve management of both Associate & partner resourcing
• Managing vendor relationships and defining requirements of the vendor services
• Provide regular reports to product consumers
• Directly influencing the development and deployment of the product
• Establish KPIs for products and oversee 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.
• Engage and collaborate, 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 model agile behaviours & methods with customers and peers
• Engage, build & develop 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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