Principal Technical Product Manager

GE Aerospace is seeking a Principal Technical Product Manager to collaborate with Direct Procurement stakeholders within the Procurement and Supplier Management Digital Technology Organization. This role involves setting strategy, building roadmaps, and leading collaboration strategy and execution to ensure seamless integration and alignment among various stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Defines Product Vision and Roadmap
• Owns and manages a backlog, prioritizing work based on customer needs, and ensures readiness for development. Guides cross-functional teams to deliver features and products
• Manages scope changes and other non-standard events throughout the life of the project
• Manages Product Data Risk and Security
• Manages stakeholder communication and progress reporting at various levels of the organization including leadership and executives
• Manages day-to-day execution of multiple interdependent projects by working directly with technical teams, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contribute to design activities
• Tracks project outcomes realization and customer satisfaction levels through established metrics against service level
• Performs initial and final financial reviews, and ensure ongoing budget tracking
• Demonstrates superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge
• Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams
• Represents the product to groups from the end consumer to the executive sponsors, maintaining ownership for product status, stack ranked product backlog based on features or user stories created, release planning, and multi-year, quarterly rolling wave roadmaps
• Prioritizes continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs
• Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem solving and ability to navigate through ambiguity
• Directs and mentors others to use systems thinking to address problems and questions at scale

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 10 years of professional experience OR associate's degree with minimum of 13 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 15 years of professional experience
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in Technical Product Management
• Able to travel up to 25% domestically
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job
• Oracle Fusion Cloud experience is a bonus
• Familiarity with software design principles, operational support practices, and problem-solving techniques, including breaking down problems, documenting statements, and estimating efforts
• Experience collaborating across multiple business and IT teams to align priorities and influence delivery
• Organized, thorough, and detail oriented
• Collaborates well with others to solve problems and actively incorporates input from various sources
• Strong analytical and strong problem-solving skills; effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions
• Understanding of Supply Chain and/or Procurement business processes
• Lean practice experience including Kaizens, VSMs, Problem Solving