Senior Director, Product Management – Enterprise Planning & Execution Suite - Military veterans preferred

2025-06-10
APTEAN
Other

/yr

  employee   contract


Alpharetta
Georgia
30004
United States


APTEAN


Position Title: Senior Director, Product Management – Enterprise Planning & Execution Suite

Location: Atlanta GA USA Alpharetta, Georgia US

Location Details: Onsite

Experience Level: Experienced Professional


Country: United States

Type: Employee Regular Full Time

Job Description

Overview

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Senior Director, Product Management – Enterprise Planning & Execution Suite

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid)
Level: Senior Director

Company Overview

Aptean is a global SaaS leader delivering purpose-built software to manufacturing and distribution verticals. Our industry-specific platforms power operations across supply chain, compliance, finance, and production environments. With the integration of new technologies and product lines, Aptean is redefining enterprise planning and execution for customers in over 80 countries.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead strategy, vision, and execution across Aptean’s unified enterprise planning and execution platform. This role will oversee a suite of solutions including Demand Planning, Network Optimization, Supply Planning, Inventory Optimization & Response, and our orchestration and integration layer.

This position requires a deeply experienced product leader who can translate operational complexity into scalable, customer-centric platform capabilities—working across newly acquired and legacy products to deliver a seamless, value-driven suite.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Vision

  • Define product direction across multiple planning and execution domains

  • Develop platform-level strategies that connect disparate modules into a unified user and data experience

  • Align product planning with market demands, technical scalability, and internal delivery velocity

Gap Analysis & Portfolio Alignment

  • Identify and resolve gaps, overlaps, or inefficiencies across inherited and in-flight product lines

  • Prioritize investments that improve platform coherence, customer outcomes, and product ROI

  • Act as an internal product integrator across the portfolio

Cross-functional Partnership

  • Partner across Engineering, UX, DevOps, Customer Success, and GTM teams to ensure clear ownership and delivery

  • Balance market opportunity with technical feasibility in roadmapping decisions

  • Serve as the go-to product leader for field teams, solution engineering, and strategic customers

Customer & Market Understanding

  • Continuously gather insight from users and industry leaders in CPG, manufacturing, life sciences, and food & beverage

  • Translate operational challenges into software capabilities that create measurable customer impact

  • Represent the voice of the customer across roadmap, design, and platform decisions

Platform Integration & Architecture Collaboration

  • Guide product integration across data models, UX, APIs, and workflows

  • Partner with architecture and R&D leaders to ensure long-term extensibility and system coherence

  • Contribute to platform-level investment decisions and modernization strategies

Team Development & Mentorship

  • Lead a small but growing team of product managers; mentor cross-functional peers

  • Instill product management best practices in backlog management, metrics, discovery, and stakeholder engagement

Required Experience

  • 10–12 years in product management roles, with 3–5 years in senior or portfolio-level leadership

  • Background in enterprise software, ideally with SCM, ERP, or integrated planning systems

  • Experience overseeing product lines within multi-product portfolios or post-M&A environments

  • Strong grasp of demand planning, supply chain modeling, and platform-based product development

  • Demonstrated ability to lead transformation from module-based to unified SaaS models

  • Strong analytical and communication skills—comfortable with both C-level strategy and day-to-day technical tradeoffs

Preferred Backgrounds

Candidates with experience at companies like Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, o9 Solutions, SAP IBP, Conexus, Oracle SCP, or E2open are especially encouraged to apply.

Tools & Methodologies

  • Product lifecycle tools: Aha!, Jira, Figma, Confluence, Azure DevOps

  • Agile methodologies, dual-track discovery, or scaled agile (e.g., SAFe)

  • Exposure to cloud architecture environments—Azure preferred


What’s in it for you?
Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to
grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding
opportunity for career development and growth. ?

About Aptean
At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled,
purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care.
Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions.
Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the
unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other
focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving
specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over?10,000
highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on
Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

“At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through
embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual
power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” –
TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are
central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers,
build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can
succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity,
religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs
allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing
innovative solutions to our customer base.





Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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