As the Director of Demand Planning Transformation & Innovation you will be accountable for defining and executing the vision, strategy, and product roadmap for all Global Demand Planning activities within the business unit. This includes leveraging advanced planning tools, decision intelligence, and AI solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead your team in developing and delivering the vision, strategy, and roadmap for your product.
- Embed Agile operating models, ceremonies, and culture within the product team's ways of working.
- Coach and develop your product team to ensure they produce valuable work focused on data-driven decision-making and customer centricity.
- Guide your team in understanding customer needs through both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
- Collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds to set a clear and cohesive product strategy while remaining open to new ideas.
- Apply scientific methods and lean start-up thinking to set hypotheses, design experiments, test assumptions, and break down complex problems.
- Measure the impact of new work, close the value loop, and ensure adoption.
- Serve as a servant-leader, reducing dependencies, removing blockers, and coordinating with other product teams and key stakeholders.
- Maintain high credibility and deliver real value by shipping products that make users' lives easier.
- Act as a leader to enhance and elevate Product Management
Qualifications & Skills:
- BA/BSc degree in any discipline.
- Extensive experience in developing successful technology planning solutions, preferably with OMP, but also SAP, O9, Aera, and Kinaxis.
- Experience participating in significant transformation programs.
- Proven track record of leading teams to develop successful planning software products from concept to adoption in both direct and matrix organizational models.
- Direct experience managing product managers/analysts and a passion for developing people.
- Broad and detailed understanding of product management techniques, including customer development, discovery and primary research, lean start-up methods, and industrialization/scaling-up.
- Sufficient technical knowledge to understand your team's software products.
