IT Product Owner

Your Job

The Koch Enterprise Finance Applications Team at Koch Global Services is currently looking for an IT Product Owner to join our team. This position will primarily focus on the Procurement to Pay (PTP) capabilities, where you will play a crucial role in driving transformation and strategy. Your responsibilities will involve supporting enterprise applications and related technologies for Procurement to Pay.

The IT Product Owner position requires strategic thinking, strong relationship-building skills, effective communication abilities, and the capacity to lead and develop the product team to deliver on maintaining a product and transformation efforts within the PTP domain that bring value to Koch Inc.

Our Team

The Enterprise Finance Applications team is a product centric organization focused on value-added strategic partnerships with other Koch companies, our accounting service delivery organization and transformation teams in ownership and support of several key processes and platforms, including Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Record to Report, and Treasury. In KGS, we believe in being All In, All Together. We must work as a global team, seek ways to break down silos, and leverage individual and team aptitudes to create a competitive advantage and exceptional value for our customers.

What You Will Do

• Provide direction and prioritization to the product team that aligns with the stakeholder's vision.
• Drive accountability with our product vendors for project or product deliverables
• Understand the market and leading practices within the marketplace for the product.
• Understand product costs and determine the cost recovery mechanism.
• Develop detailed knowledge and understanding of the business process.
• Collaborate with customers, vendors, and IT teams to appropriately implement technology solutions.
• Work with the business to develop training plans and training materials that will be used in the training of end users on new systems and enhancements.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology vendors to understand their capabilities and strategic roadmaps.
• Manage project or product scope by thoroughly understanding the business culture, environment, and people.
• Identify opportunities to leverage applications across the organization to minimize duplicate systems within the organization.
• Engage in analysis and decision-making processes for new initiatives.
• Communicate with leadership and stakeholders on current initiatives.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working in large, complex platforms with business process workflow or leading IT projects implementations.
• Collaboration and influencing skills with peers and customers to influence and gain alignment on objectives across the globe.
• Experience working with product vendors, external customers and IT Teams for project deliverables.
• Strong economic, analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience implementing and/or supporting integrations and business processes used in Procurement-to-Pay.
• Experience implementing projects using Agile methodologies.
• Experience determining product costs.
• Experience with data centric approaches.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Koch Global Services (KGS) creates solutions spanning technology, human resources, finance, project management and anything else our businesses need. With locations in India, Mexico, Poland and the United States, our employees have the opportunity to make a global impact.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.

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