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Director- Technical Product Management-SAP

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Verizon

Director- Technical Product Management-SAP

Basking Ridge, NJ +3 locations
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    When you join Verizon

    You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

    What you'll be doing...

    This Director position will be responsible for Technical Product Management for Verizon’s Global S/4 HANA ERP instance, and legacy ECC instances as well as revenue accounting systems, you will collaborate with stakeholders across Network, Supply Chain and Finance to create solutions that enable us to optimize spend, increase process efficiency as we sell to customers, build the network, report externally, all the while strengthening our controls. Your work will focus on business processes, enabling the roadmap and backlogs around key mission objectives, delivering features from concept to launch through agile delivery methodologies, ensuring value realization, run governance and support that delivers outstanding business results / user experience.

    As a people leader, this leader will lead a large team of Verizon Technical Product Owners and 3rd party partners, as well as influence Global Process Owners to deliver transformative solutions.

    Responsibilities

    • Designing how systems, process and data can work together to deliver an outcome or solution.

    • Determining how specific capabilities align with the integrated end to end north star architecture.

    • Identifying and determining industry standard processes to design how they may or may not apply to Verizon.

    • Leading a large team of employees and 3rd party partners

    • Identifying and driving strategy for implementation of new systems and applications.

    • Driving strategy for upgrades and enhancements to existing applications (SAP, Oracle, etc.) and manages future software direction and enhancements.

    • Coordinating support for systems initiatives driven by other groups if there are impacts to financial systems.

    • Developing/assisting with project plans, including estimates, work breakdown structure and schedules.

    • Identifying key project milestones.

    • Ensuring all deliverables are achieved.

    • Participating on the Change Control Board for the ERP (establishment, templates, ongoing management).

    • Being responsible for Oversight/management of all ERP priorities and projects across Verizon.

    • Identifying and resolving project constraints, issues and risks.

    • Monitoring adherence to scope and manages scope change process.

    • Establishing and administering project control procedures.

    • Maintaining project budgets, managing financials and owning vendor relationships.

    • Conducting regular status meetings to monitor project progress.

    • Analyzing and implementing corrective actions when progress deviates from plan.

    • Monitoring the quality assurance, deliverable acceptance, and sign–off processes.

    • Monitoring and mitigating project risk.

    • Maintaining continuous communications with the program management office.

    • Motivating and managing project team using effective communication and leadership.

    • Identifying and organizing required external support (Verizon & Third Party).

    • Understanding/Defining Business Processes and integrated hand offs/dependencies.

    • Effectively partners with the business and IT for successful implementations.

    • Being responsible for Organizational Change Management oversight.

    What we're looking for…

    You'll need to have:

    • Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

    • Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

    • Experience with SAP or another large ERP platform Program/project manager on several SAP implementations with large and diverse teams.

    • Experience with relevant systems and finance and/or supply chain experience.

    • Experience in the following SAP Modules (or comparable ERP modules) ECC: FICO, MM, SCM, SD, PS (Project Systems), BI/BO, AP, T&E, Professional Services, Accounts Receivable/Collections

    • Ability to manage and implement ERP and working knowledge of financial systems.

    Even better if you have one or more of the following:

    • Experience managing ERP financial and supply chain applications.

    • Experience managing large, dynamic teams in a fast paced environment.

    • Hands on and pragmatic approach to business, processes and user needs.

    • Strong customer focus and ability to recognize impact of decisions on end users.

    • Excellent verbal and written communications skills and ability to interact with team members and external customers.

    • Strong presentation skills to all levels of management; ability to communicate complex concepts in a manner that is understood by the audience.

    • Ability to prioritize efforts and tasks in a high volume and fast paced environment.

    If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

    Where you’ll be working

    In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

    Scheduled Weekly Hours

    40

    Equal Employment Opportunity

    We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees’ differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.

  • Industry
    Information Technology and Services
  • Locations
    Temple Terrace, FL • Basking Ridge, NJ • Irving, TX • Ashburn, VA
  • About Us

    You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely. We power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what matters most. If that inspires you, start the next chapter of your career here.