Product Manager, Supply Chain Vendor Platform
Precision TechnologiesProduct Manager, Supply Chain Vendor Platform (Mid-Level)
Role overview
We are building a focused prototype of a home-grown supplier platform to evaluate as a potential long-term path alongside a commercial SaaS supply-chain collaboration platform. The prototype will target an MVP of the capabilities suppliers and distribution partners use today through WebVTS, with an added Container ASN workfl
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ow to capture applicable FSMA traceability information.
As the Product Manager, you will bring structure and momentum to a fast-moving effort. You will quickly learn and document current WebVTS workflows—even where documentation is limited—work with business and technical partners to clarify the MVP, and translate requirements into prioritized Jira epics and user stories. You will help the team deliver a prototype for evaluation in January 2027, with clear criteria to compare functional fit, supplier experience, feasibility, and longer-term potential.
What you’ll do
• Discover and document the current product: Interview users and stakeholders, review available materials, and map the end-to-end supplier and CDC experience. Document the current workflows, user roles, business rules, exceptions, dependencies, and pain points in a concise, usable form.
• Define the prototype MVP: Establish what must be represented in the prototype versus what can remain out of scope. Assess current WebVTS capabilities such as order viewing and downloading, order confirmation and quantity verification, clean-invoice processing and file upload, CDC confirmation and synchronization, operational and financial reporting, and relevant master-data, calendar, and administrative setup.
• Shape the Container ASN / FSMA experience: Partner with FSMA, supply-chain, vendor-onboarding, compliance, and technology stakeholders to understand the applicable traceability elements and how they should be captured, validated, and associated with orders and shipments. Where documentation is incomplete, lead discovery, surface assumptions, and confirm decisions with the right subject-matter experts rather than filling gaps with guesses.
• Turn discovery into delivery-ready work: Write clear Jira epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and MVP requirements. Maintain a prioritized backlog, make scope and dependencies visible, and keep requirements current as the team learns.
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the delivery team: Partner daily with design, engineering, architecture, QA, integration, and business teams. Participate in and contribute to agile planning, refinement, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives; remove ambiguity and help resolve blockers quickly.
• Drive toward the January evaluation: Keep the team focused on a credible, demonstrable prototype and an agreed evaluation plan. Coordinate feedback from representative users and stakeholders, document gaps and risks, and help compare the prototype’s capabilities and tradeoffs with the commercial SaaS alternative without presuming a final platform decision.
• Communicate clearly: Provide concise updates on scope, decisions, progress, risks, open questions, and tradeoffs to both business and technical audiences.
What success looks like
• Current WebVTS workflows and MVP boundaries are documented early enough to guide design and delivery.
• The backlog contains prioritized, testable Jira stories with clear acceptance criteria and dependencies.
• FSMA-related requirements and assumptions are explicitly documented and validated with appropriate subject-matter experts.
• The team demonstrates a coherent prototype by the January 2027 evaluation target, including the agreed current-state MVP workflows and Container ASN / FSMA capture capability.
• Stakeholders can make an informed long-term assessment based on documented capabilities, gaps, supplier and user feedback, and delivery considerations.
What you’ll bring
• 4+ years of experience in product management, business analysis, or a closely related role