Principal - Technical Product Manager, Demand Planning

GE Aerospace is a leading company in the aerospace sector, seeking a Principal - Technical Product Manager for Demand Planning. The role involves collaborating with Supply Chain Demand Planning teams to shape strategic direction and manage product development, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs and delivering complex product features.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge to help organization to gain the competitive edge
• Interact with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products
• Possess a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product
• Routinely collaborate with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions
• Conduct customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas
• Demonstrate expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams
• Own the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases
• Own and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready
• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs
• Demonstrate strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity
• Engage frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions
• Translate unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units
• Partner with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process
• Mentor junior team members
• Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization
• Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 10 years of professional experience OR Associates 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 Program or Project Management in a Supply Chain planning environment
• Oracle Demantra Experience
• Oracle EBS Experience
• 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
• Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others
• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Familiarity with versatile implementation options
• Strong oral and written communication skills, ability liaison between technical team members and business stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems
• Demonstrates knowledge on technical topics, such as caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security
• Proven ability to lead programs / projects
• Capability to document, plan, market, and execute programs
• Established project management skills
• Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Experience
• Oracle Fusion Demand and Supply Planning Experience
• Knowledge of adjacent functions in Order Management, Supply Planning, and Sourcing
• Strong background and knowledge in a Supply Chain manufacturing transactional environment, forecasting (statistical, trending, probabilities), and ability link adjacent business needs in the Demand Planning space
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions
• Influences through others; builds direct and 'behind the scenes' support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making
• Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning
• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems