Product Manager Lead - Supply Chain Technology

Job Summary

Acuity is seeking a Lead Product Manager – Product Management Tech (Supply Chain) to own the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and continuous improvement of technology products supporting critical end-to-end supply chain processes.

This role will serve as the product leader for an assigned supply chain domain, partnering closely with business, technology, data, architecture, and implementation teams to translate operational needs into scalable technology capabilities.

Product domains may include Order Management, Subscription Management, Source-to-Pay, Supplier Management, Manufacturing, Inventory Management, Planning, Fulfillment, and Distribution.

The Senior Product Manager will own capabilities from discovery and prioritization through implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement. The role requires a combination of product management discipline, supply chain domain expertise, and enterprise technology fluency.

The successful candidate will help create standardized yet flexible supply chain capabilities that improve service, reliability, productivity, visibility, cost, and working capital across Acuity.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

Own Product Strategy and Roadmap

Define product vision, roadmap, & near-term priorities for assigned supply chain products and capabilities

Translate supply chain objectives into product capabilities, investments, releases, & measurable outcomes while balancing strategic platform evolution with immediate priorities

Lead Product Discovery and Prioritization

Partner with business stakeholders, end users, architects, engineering, & implementation partners to understand business processes, pain points, & opportunities

Translate business needs into product capabilities, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, & prioritized backlogs

Prioritize opportunities based on business value, user impact, risk, dependencies, strategic alignment, & implementation complexity

Own Supply Chain Technology Capabilities

Serve as the Product Management owner for enterprise technology capabilities supporting the assigned supply chain domain

Drive adoption, standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement across ERP and surrounding supply chain platforms

Understand how capabilities connect across order management, procurement, suppliers, planning, manufacturing, inventory, warehousing, distribution, fulfillment, and related enterprise platforms

Drive Cross-Functional Alignment

Act as the primary technology product partner for business leaders and process owners within the assigned domain

Partner across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Distribution, Customer Operations, Commercial, Finance, & Technology teams

Translate complex business & technology topics into clear product decisions, priorities, tradeoffs, & recommendations

Lead Product Delivery

Partner with engineering, architecture, integration, data, security, testing, & implementation throughout the product lifecycle

Own & prioritize product backlog & participate in solution design, sprint and release planning, testing, readiness, deployment, & stabilization

Ensure delivered capabilities meet business objectives, user needs, architectural direction, & defined acceptance criteria

Enable Data, Analytics, and Visibility

Identify operational data, metrics, alerts, exception-management capabilities, & analytics required to effectively manage the assigned supply chain processes

Partner with data & analytics teams to improve end-to-end visibility & operational decision-making

Define product KPIs & measure outcomes such as adoption, cycle time, service levels, productivity, automation, inventory, cost, working capital, reliability, & exception reduction

Drive Adoption and Continuous Improvement

Partner with business process owners and change-management teams to support rollout, communication, training, readiness, & adoption.

Remain close to users & operations to understand how products perform in day-to-day environments & identify opportunities for improvement.

Use operational metrics, product analytics, & user feedback to continuously evolve the product roadmap.

Other

Supply Chain Domain Areas

The Lead may own or support technology capabilities across 1+ supply chain domains:

• Order Management & Fulfillment – Order capture, orchestration, availability, promising, backlog, returns, fulfillment, shipment, and customer-order visibility
• Subscription Management – Subscription lifecycle management and integration with commercial, fulfillment, billing, and finance capabilities
• Source-to-Pay – Sourcing, requisitioning, procurement, purchasing, contracts, purchase-order execution, and receiving
• Supplier Management & Collaboration – Supplier onboarding, supplier data, portals, networks, collaboration, ASN, EDI/API connectivity, & supplier performance
• Manufacturing – Production execution, work orders, item structures/BOM dependencies, work definitions, routings, material consumption, & manufacturing operations
• Inventory Management – Inventory visibility, inventory transactions, material movements, lot/serial controls, inventory accuracy, & warehouse dependencies
• Planning & Material Flow – Supply & production-planning dependencies, material availability, replenishment, & connections between planning & execution
• Distribution & Fulfillment – Warehousing, logistics, shipment execution, WMS/TMS dependencies, & movement of products through the fulfillment network.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant product management, technology product ownership, enterprise applications, supply chain technology, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning or materially influencing complex enterprise technology products or capabilities.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes.
• Deep functional experience in one or more supply chain domains such as Order Management, Source-to-Pay, Procurement, Supplier Management, Manufacturing, Inventory, Planning, Fulfillment, or Distribution.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business processes and operational challenges into technology capabilities and product requirements.
• Experience working across business, architecture, engineering, integration, data, security, testing, and implementation teams.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives through influence in a matrixed environment.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and/or Oracle E-Business Suite in a supply chain context.
• Enterprise platforms supporting Order Management, Subscription Management, Procurement, Supplier Management, Manufacturing, Inventory, Planning, WMS, TMS, MES, or supply-chain execution.
• Enterprise integrations including APIs, middleware, EDI, event-driven integrations, and cloud integration platforms.
• Enterprise data platforms, analytics, and supply-chain reporting solutions.
• Multi-business-unit, multi-ERP, or multi-site enterprise environments.
• Major ERP or supply-chain transformation programs.
• Agile/Product certifications such as CSPO, SAFe PO/PM, Scrum, or similar certifications.

Travel Requirements