Digital Product Owner - SAP

Make your mark at the world's largest HVAC company

Daikin Applied Americas is looking for a Digital Product Owner to play a key role in our overall Alliance Air SAP technology roadmap! The Digital Product Owner will be responsible for products or platforms delivering digitized solutions as a service in the Supply Chain Organization. The product owner will own the business strategy behind a product or feature and establish a vision for the product to improve identified opportunities within the assigned function through an iterative approach. This individual will collaborate with cross-functional teams and identify industry best practices to develop a product roadmap and prioritize with specific scope to build and deliver features. Come be a part of an exciting journey at Daikin Applied, where innovation and excellence drive our every endeavor!

Location: Hybrid or Remote - Plymouth, MN

What you will do:

• Provide strategic ownership of the data systems and processes supporting the Integrated Supply Chain with the intent to evaluate and recommend solutions to improve efficiency, reduce cost, and leverage progressive technologies to drive synergies across the Integrated Supply Chain and the broader organization
• Provide full-cycle project management of cross-functional teams to implement system improvements including developing documentation of all processes and delivering training, as needed
• Meet and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to establish project scopes, system goals, and requirements, track project milestones
• Partner with IT department to represent the systems needs of the Integrated Supply Chain and implement best practices for scalability, supportability, ease of maintenance, and system performance
• Gather data, assess trends, identify gaps, use imperfect data to draw reasonable conclusions, and assemble a set of recommendations supported by numerical facts to develop a business case to garner executive support and provide ongoing communication to key business leaders
• Develop detailed spend and category analyses to identify areas of opportunity within a diverse set of spend categories
• Quantify the financial and operational impacts of the identified opportunities and build a business case to justify the investment in proceeding with the project
• Analyze market trends in the different sector indices to analyze strategic planning for long-range stability of cost and services

What's in it for you:

• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business or IT related discipline or equivalent experience
• 4+ Years of experience years of experience in supply chain or operations coupled with expertise in information systems
• Ability to travel 50% for the first 6 months, reducing to 25-35% ongoing thereafter
• Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of HVAC manufacturing or similar industry
• Experience with ERP integrations, WMS systems, EDI platforms, or analytics tools

Benefits:

• Daikin Applied offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
  
  
  
  • Multiple medical insurance plan options + dental and vision insurance
  • 401K retirement plan with employer contributions matching 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% on the next 2% of employee contributions
  • Company provided life insurance + optional employee paid voluntary life insurance, dependent life coverage and voluntary accident coverage
  • Short term and long term disability
  • 3 weeks of paid time off for new employees + 11 company paid holidays
  • Vacation accrues on a monthly basis, unless applicable federal, state and local law requires a faster accrual
  • Paid sick time in accordance of the federal, state and local law
  • Paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service
  
  
  
  

The typical annual base salary for this position ranges from $90,000 to $148,000 + 10% bonus in Minnesota. The range displayed represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade which this position falls. Individual base pay will depend on a wide range of factors including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.