Global Product Owner, SAP Plan Maintenance and Inventory

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 19,000 people globally.

As a Global Product Owner, you are the referent for the SAP Plant Maintenance and Non-Commodities Inventory solution. This role demands a blend of expertise in project management and industrial processes, strong communication abilities, application lifecycle management and resources coordination.

You define and establish target solution, starting from an initial conceptual vision and evolving into a more concrete solution specification. You make high-level design choices according to the business strategy; dictate the standards, guidelines, best practices, and patterns and identify impacts on the information system. You will have to understand business requirements, prepare or review specifications, work effectively with other functional and technical team members, make recommendations, and converge all requirements into one/several solutions.

When specifications are set and solutions defined, you will also ensure the delivery of the solution hand-in-hand with the rest of the team.

In this position, you will have three main roles covering a large scope of responsibilities:

You are the gatekeeper of the Plant Maintenance and Non-Commodities Inventory and it integration with the rest of the ecosystem :

• Work closely with industrial managers, IT teams, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions.
• With other team members, you design cross processes flows.
• Coordinate and ensure the resolution of technical issues, regular system maintenance, with Global Operations Team.
• Generate reports and dashboards to monitor compliance and performance.
• Work closely and confidently with various departments.
• You are ensuring maintenance and enhancement of your process.

You act as trusted partner for long term & continuous improvement:

• Manage business relationship to define target priorities and business value.
• Ensure communication and be responsible of oneself indicators (measurable KPIs).
• Animate, inform, communicate, enhance, anticipate and perform with the other domains to ensure end-to-end design.
• Elaborate action plans for continuous improvements of the solution and solving recurrent incidents.  

You are part of the company that implements worldwide initiatives. You will be onboarded as project team member in S/4 worldwide roadmap.

As a summary:

You will have a full view of what is done in our team :

• You will be responsible of SAP Plant Maintenance and Non-Commodities Inventory, including integration with the other flows.
• You will be making solution design decisions as an owner of the SAP Plant Maintenance and Non-Commodities Inventory solution & processes.
• You will manage the business relationship to ensure priority and business value.
• You will enable long term value by proposing solution improvements.

Requirements:

• Good experience on full SAP rollout project lifecycle
• Good experience in SAP MM (Inventory Management).
• Good experience in SAP PM (Plant Maintenance).
• Medium experience in SAP MM (Procurement).
• Experience in IT best practices.
• Basic experience in SAP Integration (IDoc, Web Service, etc.)
• Basic experience in SAP Fiori.
• Basic experience with test campaign executions & automation tool.
• Basic experience with JIRA and ServiceNow.

Business skills:

• Good business understanding of industrial environments, and processes (No-Commodities Inventory management, Plant Maintenance, Production).
• Previous experience in a customer-facing position will be considered an advantage.
• Experience in agribusiness practices is an advantage
• Great relationship building skills and ability to work with multiple teams, cross cultural mind-set to be able to work with interlocutors from all regions across the world.
• Ability to learn fast and adapt to new solutions.
• Strong analysis, synthesis & communication capacity (written & oral).
• Be fluent in English, written and spoken.

Additional Information for the job

Diversity & Inclusion

LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.

LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Sustainability

Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.

We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us

What We Offer

We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

Our Benefits

• 25 annual paid leave
   
• Flexible working hours
   
• Food vouchers
   
• Transportation allowance
   
• Additional medical & dental insurance
   
• Life insurance
   
• Sports card with 90/10 coverage
   
• Various learning & development opportunities
   
• Yearly performance evaluation plans
   
• Social clubs & Wellbeing initiatives
   
• Team buildings & social events
   
• Employee Referral Program