Key Facts

Remote From:

Anywhere

Full time

English

Hard Skills

Other Skills

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Creative Thinking
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Communication
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Negotiation
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Prioritization
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Problem Solving

Roles & Responsibilities

Proven experience as Product Owner or in an Agile environment with backlog management and Scrum ceremonies
Experience in supply chain and transportation systems (preferably Manhattan TLM) and ability to elicit and translate business requirements
Strong requirements documentation skills (functional and non-functional) and ability to create business designs consumable by business, development, and testing
Stakeholder management, negotiation and facilitation skills, cross-functional collaboration and vendor management/RFP experience (including working with external vendors)

Requirements:

Create and document business requirements, gap analysis, and support documents for supply chain systems, specifically transportation systems (Manhattan TLM); research policies and identify changes to support revised processes; work with business/process engineering on process improvements
Analyze and synthesize business and IT stakeholder requirements into actionable items; ensure detailed functional and non-functional requirements and business designs meet industry best practices
Manage and prioritize the product backlog, break epics into user stories in JIRA, and participate in Scrum events (sprint planning, reviews, backlog refinement, retrospectives); arrange and prioritize sprints; provide demos
Facilitate cross-functional negotiation and issue resolution among stakeholders; provide walkthroughs and clarifications to Development, Testing, Communication, Learning, and Implementation teams; support RFP processes and vendor management; contribute to the product vision and roadmap

Georgia IT, Inc.

About Georgia IT, Inc.

Georgia IT, Inc. provides IT Consulting for a wide range of IT services and custom build turn-key enterprise solutions. GIT specializes in improving business scalability and efficiency through BSM and SBA Solutions. GIT transforms business with service management and service automation solutions. We are BMC & HP partners. GIT Services include custom built enterprise software and customer-centric web portals, network design and implementation, remote and site-to-site VPN, network and server security assessment and setup, server and desktop virtualization, and many others. GIT also provides IT Consulting in many areas such as Disaster Recovery Planning, Enterprise Data Backup Strategy, Long Term Strategic IT Planning and Augmentation Professional Services Solutions. Professional Services Specialties: Business Process Integration, Software Integration & Development, Web portal, Networking, Remote and site-to-site VPN, Virtualization Solutions, Product Development Please contact us Hrus@georgiait.com / uthay@georgiait.com/470-798-5000 x 1010 / (732) 890-2535 direct

Founded: 2018

Company size: 51 - 200

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Job description

Product owner with supply chain – 100% Remote
Location - USA
Rate – DOE
Start Date – DOE

Create and document Business Requirements, gap analysis and support documents for projects related to Giant Eagle Supply Chain systems, specifically Transportation systems. (Manhattan TLM)
Analyze and synthesize business and IT stakeholder requirements into actionable items.
Ensure business and system requirements are documented in the form of detailed functional and non-functional requirements and business designs, which meet industry best practices and are consumable for business teams, development, and testing.
Research existing policies, procedures, methodologies and systems that support the current state and identify changes needed to support revised processes. Work with business and process engineering to identify and build process improvements into design.
Utilize creative thinking to modify or select the most suitable procedure/approach that results in providing Pharmacy with optimum solutions to business, technology, and customer challenges
Using negotiating and facilitation skills, resolve issues across competing segments and channels to arrive at solutions that meet the needs of all stakeholders. Actively manage business teams expectations on the work package and the initiative overall where providing support.
Support the work packages for the Development, Testing, Communication, Learning, and Implementation teams by conducting walkthroughs, providing clarification and
Work for consensus and contribute to achievement of team/group goals.
Provide support in RFP process and vendor management.

Identifying areas for improvement and recommending changes to supply chain system or processes
Working with stakeholders from different business units to develop analyses and requirement documentation
Developing and monitoring data quality metrics
Managing and prioritizing the product backlog
Participate in scrum events - sprint planning, reviews, refine product backlog & retrospectives
Breaking product epics into user stories for tracking in JIRA
Arranging and prioritizing sprints
Evaluating progress at each stage of development
User stories demo for feedback
Answering dev questions on user stories or tasks
Contributing to the vision & the roadmap