Product Owner, Supply Chain & Procurement

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

As a Product Owner, Supply Chain & Procurement (Business Solutions – Corporate Core Finance), you will own the vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog for SAP S/4HANA capabilities that support procurement, inventory, and related finance processes. You will work closely with business stakeholders, SAP functional teams, engineers, QA, data teams, and delivery partners to deliver scalable, user-centered solutions across procure-to-pay and connected order-to-cash workflows.

This role combines strong product ownership with a working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, and Finance/Controlling integrations. You will focus on improving business outcomes such as purchasing compliance, process efficiency, invoice automation, spend visibility, inventory accuracy, financial controls, and user experience.

Drive Product Outcomes

• Own, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog for supply chain, procurement, and related finance capabilities.
• Define the customer and business problems to solve, desired outcomes, and success measures—not only the features to deliver.
• Translate business objectives into prioritized epics, user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria, and incremental release plans.
• Balance customer value, business impact, technical feasibility, risk, compliance needs, and delivery timelines.
• Break large initiatives into smaller releases that enable continuous delivery, learning, and measurable improvement.
• Define and monitor key performance indicators for adoption, process efficiency, procurement compliance, spend visibility, inventory accuracy, and user satisfaction.

Lead Discovery and Process Design

• Lead discovery and requirements-gathering sessions with procurement, supply chain, finance, warehouse, sales, customer service, and IT stakeholders.
• Understand current-state workflows, pain points, and control requirements needs across procure-to-pay and connected order-to-cash processes.
• Facilitate future-state process design, identify gaps and dependencies, document decisions, and build alignment on scope and priorities.
• Use stakeholder feedback, operational data, and system insights to validate assumptions before significant investment.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows through SAP capabilities, process simplification, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Maintain a strong understanding of core procurement, inventory, finance, and cross-functional business processes.

Enable Strong Delivery

• Partner with SAP functional consultants, engineers, QA, integration teams, data teams, and business process owners to refine solutions and remove ambiguity.
• Define requirements for integrations among SAP S/4HANA MM, SD, FI/CO, warehouse operations, tax, payment, logistics, customer, supplier, and third-party systems.
• Validate end-to-end business and accounting impacts across requisition-to-payment, inventory, sales-order-to-billing, and financial reporting processes.
• Participate in and lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, and other Agile delivery ceremonies.
• Prioritize defects, enhancements, and change requests based on business impact, urgency, risk, compliance, and roadmap value.
• Support implementation activities including master-data readiness, data migration, testing, cutover planning, release readiness, hypercare, and post-launch stabilization.
• Coordinate business testing by defining test scenarios, test data, acceptance criteria, and success measures for end-to-end processes.
• Support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, defect triage, and business sign-off.

Build Alignment and Trust

• Act as the liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap priorities, progress, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintain organized product documentation, business-process materials, requirements, decisions, and release information in Confluence.
• Use Jira and Slack effectively to manage backlog transparency, delivery workflow, stakeholder communication, and issue resolution.
• Support change management through training materials, process documentation, release communications, stakeholder demonstrations, and adoption feedback.
• Build trusted relationships across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Technology, and external implementation partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Finance, Supply Chain, Business, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, SAP functional delivery professional, or similar role in a technology-driven organization.
• Experience owning and prioritizing a product backlog in an Agile delivery environment.
• Experience delivering SAP S/4HANA procure-to-pay, materials management, inventory, finance integration, or related enterprise capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of procurement processes, including requisitioning, purchasing, approvals, receiving, inventory, invoice verification, supplier management, and payment workflows.
• Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA MM and FI/CO integration concepts; familiarity with SAP SD and order-to-cash processes preferred.
• Experience supporting SAP implementations, including testing, data migration, cutover, or post-go-live stabilization.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, QA, design, data, integration, and SAP functional teams.
• Effective stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Comfortable working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong ability to write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and business requirements.
• Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Highly detail-oriented with excellent organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong judgment in managing priorities, resources, risks, dependencies, and delivery trade-offs.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and Slack.

Desired Characteristics

• Experience with SAP SD configuration and integration concepts, including order-to-cash, pricing, billing, customer master data, and financial postings.
• Familiarity with SAP MM configuration concepts, including purchasing organizations, plants, storage locations, purchasing documents, release strategies, invoice tolerances, and movement types.
• Experience in media or entertainment
• Ability to investigate and learn unfamiliar systems quickly.
• Experience applying automation, analytics, or AI capabilities to improve finance, procurement, supply chain, or business workflows.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com.

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.