Product manager lead - supply chain technology

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com.

Work location:

This position may be based anywhere in the United States and includes travel as part of the responsibilities.

Job Summary

Acuity is seeking a Lead Product Manager – Product Management Tech (Supply Chain) to own the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and continuous improvement of technology products supporting critical end-to-end supply chain processes. This role will serve as the product leader for an assigned supply chain domain, partnering closely with business, technology, data, architecture, and implementation teams to translate operational needs into scalable technology capabilities. Product domains may include Order Management, Subscription Management, Source-to-Pay, Supplier Management, Manufacturing, Inventory Management, Planning, Fulfillment, and Distribution.

The Senior Product Manager will own capabilities from discovery and prioritization through implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement. The role requires a combination of product management discipline, supply chain domain expertise, and enterprise technology fluency. The successful candidate will help create standardized yet flexible supply chain capabilities that improve service, reliability, productivity, visibility, cost, and working capital across Acuity.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Own Product Strategy and Roadmap
• Define product vision, roadmap, & near-term priorities for assigned supply chain products and capabilities
• Translate supply chain objectives into product capabilities, investments, releases, & measurable outcomes while balancing strategic platform evolution with immediate priorities
• Lead Product Discovery and Prioritization
• Partner with business stakeholders, end users, architects, engineering, & implementation partners to understand business processes, pain points, & opportunities
• Translate business needs into product capabilities, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, & prioritized backlogs
• Prioritize opportunities based on business value, user impact, risk, dependencies, strategic alignment, & implementation complexity
• Own Supply Chain Technology Capabilities
• Serve as the Product Management owner for enterprise technology capabilities supporting the assigned supply chain domain
• Drive adoption, standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement across ERP and surrounding supply chain platforms
• Understand how capabilities connect across order management, procurement, suppliers, planning, manufacturing, inventory, warehousing, distribution, fulfillment, and related enterprise platforms
• Drive Cross-Functional Alignment
• Act as the primary technology product partner for business leaders and process owners within the assigned domain
• Partner across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Distribution, Customer Operations, Commercial, Finance, & Technology teams
• Translate complex business & technology topics into clear product decisions, priorities, tradeoffs, & recommendations
• Lead Product Delivery
• Partner with engineering, architecture, integration, data, security, testing, & implementation throughout the product lifecycle
• Own & prioritize product backlog & participate in solution design, sprint and release planning, testing, readiness, deployment, & stabilization
• Ensure delivered capabilities meet business objectives, user needs, architectural direction, & defined acceptance criteria
• Enable Data, Analytics, and Visibility
• Identify operational data, metrics, alerts, exception-management capabilities, & analytics required to effectively manage the assigned supply chain processes
• Partner with data & analytics teams to improve end-to-end visibility & operational decision-making
• Define product KPIs & measure outcomes such as adoption, cycle time, service levels, productivity, automation, inventory, cost, working capital, reliability, & exception reduction
• Drive Adoption and Continuous Improvement
• Partner with business process owners and change-management teams to support rollout, communication, training, readiness, & adoption.
• Remain close to users & operations to understand how products perform in day-to-day environments & identify opportunities for improvement.
• Use operational metrics, product analytics, & user feedback to continuously evolve the product roadmap.

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Supply Chain Domain Areas

The Lead may own or support technology capabilities across 1+ supply chain domains:

• Order Management & Fulfillment – Order capture, orchestration, availability, promising, backlog, returns, fulfillment, shipment, and customer-order visibility
• Subscription Management – Subscription lifecycle management and integration with commercial, fulfillment, billing, and finance capabilities
• Source-to-Pay – Sourcing, requisitioning, procurement, purchasing, contracts, purchase-order execution, and receiving
• Supplier Management & Collaboration – Supplier onboarding, supplier data, portals, networks, collaboration, ASN, EDI/API connectivity, & supplier performance
• Manufacturing – Production execution, work orders, item structures/BOM dependencies, work definitions, routings, material consumption, & manufacturing operations
• Inventory Management – Inventory visibility, inventory transactions, material movements, lot/serial controls, inventory accuracy, & warehouse dependencies
• Planning & Material Flow – Supply & production-planning dependencies, material availability, replenishment, & connections between planning & execution
• Distribution & Fulfillment – Warehousing, logistics, shipment execution, WMS/TMS dependencies, & movement of products through the fulfillment network.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant product management, technology product ownership, enterprise applications, supply chain technology, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning or materially influencing complex enterprise technology products or capabilities.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes.
• Deep functional experience in one or more supply chain domains such as Order Management, Source-to-Pay, Procurement, Supplier Management, Manufacturing, Inventory, Planning, Fulfillment, or Distribution.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business processes and operational challenges into technology capabilities and product requirements.
• Experience working across business, architecture, engineering, integration, data, security, testing, and implementation teams.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives through influence in a matrixed environment.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and/or Oracle E-Business Suite in a supply chain context.
• Enterprise platforms supporting Order Management, Subscription Management, Procurement, Supplier Management, Manufacturing, Inventory, Planning, WMS, TMS, MES, or supply-chain execution.
• Enterprise integrations including APIs, middleware, EDI, event-driven integrations, and cloud integration platforms.
• Enterprise data platforms, analytics, and supply-chain reporting solutions.
• Multi-business-unit, multi-ERP, or multi-site enterprise environments.
• Major ERP or supply-chain transformation programs.
• Agile/Product certifications such as CSPO, SAFe PO/PM, Scrum, or similar certifications.

Travel Requirements

1-20%

The range for this position is $150,000 to $271,000. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant’s experience and geographic location. Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role. For a list of our benefits, click here.

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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