[Hiring] Senior Staff Technical Product Manager - Fulfillment Logistics @GE Aerospace

Role Description

Senior Oracle EBS WMS Fulfillment and Inventory management Architect responsible for defining strategy and leading end-to-end architecture, design governance, and delivery for Oracle WMS inbound distribution processes. Partners closely with Product Management to translate vision into clear requirements, align stakeholders (Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Product Owners, Developers, Operations, IT, and vendors), and guide delivery by balancing new features, defect resolution, and technical debt.

• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge.
• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products.
• Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
• Routinely collaborates with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.
• Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
• Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Owns the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Engages frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation.
• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
• Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization. Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.
• Ensure design and implementation of Oracle WMS software.
• Define overall architecture, conduct end-user training.
• Develop and execute test plans, conduct CRP, SIT and UAT.
• Own Defining Inventory, Storage and fulfillment and allocation solutions using Oracle EBS.
• Provide training on how a facility is configured in WMS to know the WMS system function.
• Develop WMS label printing and Web Report tools.
• Implement Supply-Chain-Management solutions and WMS application impact on these processors.
• Support continuous business process improvement projects.
• Support WMS quarterly system upgrades.
• Support and documentation of processors and incidents for fanatical audit controls.
• Independently manage new WMS site implementation projects.
• Independently manage project budgets, human capital and project funds.
• Work on WMS application integration, including the integration to the ERP application and build future enhancements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 5 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 8 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 10 years of professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in implementing WMS functionalities.
• Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.

Requirements

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in implementing WMS functionalities such as Oracle Shipping, reservations, allocations, Shipping documentation, Replenishment, Product Receiving (PO/IB Shipments), fulfillment, allocations, Cross docking, Labeling etc.
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems.
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices.
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment.
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions.
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas.
• Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications.
• Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
• Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills.
• Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices.
• Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes others toward the common vision and goal.
• Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE.
• Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly.
• Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

Benefits

• The base pay range for this position is $131,000.00 - 174,000.00 USD annually.
• This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan.
• Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace.
• Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services.
• Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions.
• Access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants.
• Tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.

Company Description

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.