Vision & Strategy Definition: shaping the Make business vision corresponding technology strategy & product capability roadmaps around business impact. Understanding and translating business problems faced by the manufacturing site function into a value case for the manufacturing site technology, data, governance & user experience supported by defined, baselined value realization key performance indicators.
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Define the product vision, priorities and OKRs for the site squad that support the internal manufacturing process/es, aligned to segment/franchise/site technology strategy and roadmap.
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Establish & align technology roadmaps for the squads to achieve efficient & effective delivery of business & customer value for assigned product / platform including supporting environments.
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Balance and document business value with technical feasibility while prioritizing features and optimizing cost.
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Help to prioritize site squad backlogs, manage product / platform constraints, and resolve cross-team dependencies; manage demand intake as required.
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Accountable for site financial budgets, where applicable and ensure the aligned financial deliverables in accordance with business portfolio and financial cycle timely, such as 5-year finance plan (LRFP), 3 year finance plan (MTP) and year finance plan (BP).
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Partner with site Leadership Teams on prioritization of investments and ensure new capabilities cost is embedded within site budgets.
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Maintain pulse on site performance metrics to focus on business value realization, available/uptime and pull-through.
External Insights: understanding external insights, trends, leading practices in Make product maturity, machine learning and artificial intelligence space.
Solution Design: ensuring that product development efforts incorporate an approach that starts with experimentation to validate expected impact, includes human centered design, Automation to reduce run cost, embraces agile principles, incorporates external insights, required end to end process optimizations, and compliance engagement.
Value Realization: defining expected value impact of investments across employee experience, functional excellence, efficiency, and compliance.
Architecture: partnering with the architecture team to define the role each system plays within our landscape aligned with business capabilities.
Internal Partnerships: acting as the primary trusted advisor to senior manufacturing & technology leaders across all lifecycles of Manufacturing product development starting with inception through to value realization & ongoing continuous improvement, and communication of progress against strategic objectives.
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Orchestrate release of product/platform to the site ensuring reliable, compliant, and secure environment.
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Be accountable for Cybersecurity/TLM strategy roadmap incorporated into site product roadmap partnering with Information Security and Risk Management to assess and remediate/mitigate technology risk.
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Be accountable for cross- team communication related to site squad(s).
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Collaborate across Product/Platform groups to ensure all partners are clear on dependencies, enablers, and prioritization for the site squad(s).
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Be accountable for site reliability performance.
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Continuously drive optimization and rationalization of site squad.
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Responsible for quality and compliance of site squad.
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Primary JJT SME during internal and external audits.
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Act as an empowered decision maker with regards to cross squad prioritization, removing roadblocks and driving prioritization and decisions where required.
Product Management: partnering with product management teams to ensure roadmaps are oriented to deliver finance business & technology strategy, value creation objectives, and measurable key performance indicators. And ensure all tools/platforms related to product management up to date.
External Partnerships: managing build & run support and vendor relationships to influence development roadmaps & ensure that our needs will be met by our technology partners.