Sourcing Technical Product Manager (SAP Ariba and SAP Ariba SLP)

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

At Visa, the Corporate Information Technology organization, enables Visa's revenue growth through flexible pricing engines and global revenue platforms built on modern technologies. They enable compliance through Legal and Privacy applications, support HR IT applications, Controllership EBS and Sourcing application, Digital media, cloud and network solutions.

The CIT Product Management team is looking for a Technical Product Manager who will be responsible for managing the product lifecycle from conception to launch and beyond, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality billing and cross functional applications on time and within budget. You will be working as part of a team responsible for evangelizing, building and testing critical business applications that utilize SAP Ariba and SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance (SLP).The team works closely with business owners of these services to solve business problems, discover opportunities and improve operations by delivering features that reduce manual efforts.

As a product manager, you will provide functional and technical expertise, thought leadership with focus on automation and creating business value. For this role, it is important for you to enjoy working on diverse technologies and should be excited to take initiatives to solve complex business and operational problems. 

A strong candidate will have a solid experience in product management, agile product delivery, as well as superb skills in communications, business analysis, problem-solving, coordination, and change management. The ideal candidate ensures things get done with customer-first mindset.
 

Key Responsibilities:

•  Design, develop, and implement integration solutions for SAP Ariba and SAP Ariba SLP module.
• Drive business requirements intake, document elaborated requirements and use cases in partnership with business product management, Engineering, and UX design
• Provide functional leadership in sourcing and purchasing domain during the analysis of new upcoming programs and projects

• Perform technical grooming of business requirements and specifications for existing and new services and products. Work with team members to create/review user stories. Develop well-formed features specifications and acceptance criteria 
• Ensure that business requirements include measurable business benefits and OKR’s
• Work with UX team to ensure requirements translate to mockups and meet interaction and design requirements for clients
• Collaborate with Engineering and Business product manager in setting the roadmap and making necessary tradeoffs using prioritization events
• Develop best practices for improving quality of requirements, developer productivity and user engagement and roll out to team members
• Measure and improve agility adoption of team members and provide recommendations
• Monitor day to day performance of our platforms, analyze trends, create, and lead initiatives that will improve customer experiences
• Collaborate with cross-functional development team to identify impact, manage dependencies and define key milestones
• Manage post-release feature management measurement of adoption, performance, and collaboration with business product managers
• Proactively identify gaps in the current product offering and lead the effort to develop solutions that drive business value
• Develop concise product materials to document the product features to educate stakeholders (e.g., Product Guides, Integration Guides, Release Notes)

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Functional and business process expertise in both Ariba upstream modules including Ariba Procurement Workspace, Ariba Sourcing, and Ariba Contract, and downstream modules including Ariba Buying and Invoicing.
• Hands-on experience integrating Ariba with other enterprise applications through integration middleware and APIs.
• Experience with Ariba reporting/analytics tool or other enterprise Business Intelligence and Analytics tools.
• Oracle ERP functional knowledge and integration experience, including master data and transactional data integration.
• SAP Ariba certification preferred (e.g., SAP Ariba Procurement, SAP Ariba Sourcing, SAP Ariba Supplier Management)
• Experience with relational databases like Oracle, Postgres
• Experienced with agile software development methodology, SAFE, story, and requirements definition
• Must be highly self-motivated with strong organizational skills, outstanding analytic skills and polished facilitation skills, stakeholder management.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.