Solutions Product Manager
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Operations and Supply Chain
The Global Sourcing and Supply Management Solutions team is seeking experienced Product Manager to lead complex, global enterprise initiatives. Applying a blend of technical expertise and business intelligence, you will interact directly with multi-functional teams across Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance and Operations to define, build and roll-out innovative technology and business processes. This includes understanding business problems, converting to solution requirements and execution of the solution. You will own multiple projects aimed at improving supply chain strategies and addressing our evolving business needs. This position offers the opportunity to influence our analytical environment and push the boundaries of our reporting capability. If you are passionate about delivering quality data solutions, we hope you will consider joining our Apple team.
Description
As a Product Manager, you will evaluate global business requirements and architect solutions to be solved with systems and tools. Do you have a passion for data and innovation? In this role you will identify, propose, and craft technical solutions that are user-friendly, scalable, and address key business issues. You will analyze legacy systems and interfaces and collaborate with software developers and business teams to design new and advanced cross-platform solutions. This will include implementation, improvements, maintenance, and training. Do you love building systems and optimization solutions? If this describes you, then we should meet.
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires a minimum of 5+ years of professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3+ years and a Master’s degree.
- MBA or MS in Supply Chain Management, Analytics, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations Design or similar field preferred.
- 5+ years of hands-on professional supply chain experience in data-rich analysis and complex models.
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of common supply chain practices (e.g MPS, MRP, Materials Planning, Demand/ Supply Balance) used through complex manufacturing networks.
- Experience developing or executing industry-common supply chain platforms like SAP, e2open, Kinaxis, o9, etc.
- In-depth knowledge of commonly used supply chain models and heuristics with experience in solving analytical problems using quantitative solution.
- Ability to lead impactful programs independently under concurrent deadlines.
- Experience defining technical requirements and leading software and system implementations across large organizations and multiple regions.
- Skilled at developing and exercising cross-functional influence; translating between business owners and technical teams.
- Hands on experience in developing optimization solutions using solvers like Gurobi, CPLEX, Xpress.
- Knowledge of building models using analysis tools like Python, R or SAS.
- Experience with relational databases and SQL.
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely across multiple audiences and partners, including the ability to explain analytical outcomes and technical roadblocks in business terms.