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Role Overview: As a Functional Product Owner (FPO) for Vendor Master Data at Maersk, you will play a crucial role in driving the strategic direction, design, and implementation of vendor master data processes, policies, controls, and technology. You will bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that business requirements related to vendor master data are effectively translated into system features and improvements. Your responsibility will involve end-to-end process ownership, defining, managing, and continuously improving vendor master data processes. Key Responsibilities: - **Leadership and Strategic Influence:** - Lead cross-functional teams and guide decision-making with clear, data-driven insights. - Act as a strategic advisor to senior stakeholders, aligning vendor master data goals with enterprise priorities. - Mentor and champion a high-performance collaborative culture to inspire change across regions, functions, and themes. - **Product Ownership and Strategy:** - Serve as the primary business representative in agile scrum teams, driving the vendor master data product roadmap in alignment with strategic goals. - Define, prioritize, and manage product backlogs; write clear user stories and acceptance criteria. - Lead stakeholder workshops to capture business requirements and translate them into actionable product features. - **Process Ownership:** - Own and manage end-to-end vendor master data processes such as vendor onboarding, amendments, and maintenance. - Define process workflows, standard operating procedures, RACI matrices, and performance standards. - Monitor process performance using KPIs and implement improvements for efficiency and accuracy. - **Control Mitigation and Compliance:** - Identify process-level risks, including data quality, system control gaps, and compliance risks. - Design and implement internal controls to mitigate operational and compliance risks. - Partner with audit, risk, and compliance teams to ensure vendor master data processes meet regulatory and policy requirements. - **Stakeholder Management:** - Collaborate with business units, tech, data governance, compliance, and operations teams across regions. - Act as a change agent to promote vendor master data process and system adoption globally. - Deliver training, communications, and onboarding materials for new vendor master data processes and tools. - **Data Governance and Quality:** - Partner with data stewards and governance teams to ensure high-quality, consistent, and governed vendor master data. - Define business rules and validation criteria to ensure accurate and reliable vendor data. - Participate in root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives related to vendor master data quality. Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; Masters preferred. - 8 years of experience in product ownership, business process management, or functional leadership. - Demonstrated experience in vendor master data process ownership, control implementation, and cross-functional project leadership. - Strong understanding of ERP systems (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, SAP MDG), workflow tools, and master data concepts. - Working knowledge of SOX, internal controls, or regulatory compliance preferred. - Excellent communication, analytical thinking, and stakeholder management skills. (Additional Details: Omit as there are no specific additional details mentioned in the provided job description) Role Overview: As a Functional Product Owner (FPO) for Vendor Master Data at Maersk, you will play a crucial role in driving the strategic direction, design, and implementation of vendor master data processes, policies, controls, and technology. You will bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that business requirements related to vendor master data are effectively translated into system features and improvements. Your responsibility will involve end-to-end process ownership, defining, managing, and continuously improving vendor master data processes. Key Responsibilities: - **Leadership and Strategic Influence:** - Lead cross-functional teams and guide decision-making with clear, data-driven insights. - Act as a strategic advisor to senior stakeholders, aligning vendor master data goals with enterprise priorities. - Mentor and champion a high-performance collaborative culture to inspire change across regions, functions, and themes. - **Product Ownership and Strategy:** - Serve as the primary business representative in agile scrum teams, driving the vendor master data product roadmap in alignment with strategic goals. - Define, prioritize, and manage product backlogs; write clear user stories and acceptance criteria. - Lead stakeholder workshops to capture business requirements and translate them into actionable product features. - **Process Ownership:** - Own
