JOB DESCRIPTION
Product Specialist
Manufacturing
REPORTS TO
America’s ERP Operations Director
DEPARTMENT
Systems & Applications
COMPANY
Vertiv
LOCATION
India / Pune
1. POSITION SUMMARY
Drive value creation and regional business outcomes by evolving ERP product capabilities through targeted enhancements and projects, while supporting Product Owners towards global convergence. The Product Specialist is positioned at the intersection of high business proximity and high standardization, serving as a key enabler of ERP product evolution across the organization.
The Manufacturing Product Specialist will support the following areas:
- Planning
- Bom’s,
- Routings
- MRP
- Work Orders / WIP
- Warehouse Management
2. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and deliver enhancements and process improvements to ERP systems
- Translate business requirements into scalable, standardized solutions
- Ensure enhancements are aligned with regional and global strategies
- Consolidate local process variants into a shared global ERP template, ensuring consistency across regions and alignment with the target operating model
- Assess and reduce local customizations and deviations, converging them toward standardized and globally supported ERP solutions
- Identify and eliminate duplicated or overlapping processes and solutions
- Provide expert-level support on complex, non-standard, or recurrent tickets
- Analyze root causes of recurring issues and convert them into enhancement backlog items
- Transfer knowledge to Second-Level Support through playbooks, guidelines, and documentation
3. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs)
Application Stability
Maintain and improve system reliability and uptime
Project Success
Deliver enhancements and projects on time, on scope, and on budget
% Time on Projects
Maximize time allocation toward strategic enhancement and convergence initiatives
4. KEY INTERACTIONS
Stakeholder Information Flow
Stakeholder
Information Exchange
Direction
Product Owner
Architectural guidelines & product-specific priority guidelines
Inbound
Product Owner
Detailed functional design
Inbound
Product Owner
Regional process and ERP configuration implications
Outbound
Second-Level Support
Critical ticket escalation
Inbound
Second-Level Support
Specialist expertise support for critical tickets
Outbound
Tech Factory
Delivery priorities (Run / Enhance / Converge)
Outbound
Governance Touchpoints
Cadence
Meeting
Objective
Weekly
Enhancements & Demand Review
Prioritize enhancements, review progress, & validate alignment with business
Bi-Weekly
Second Level Enablement & Escalation Review
Review escalations, validate knowledge gaps, and define industrialization actions
Monthly
Product Governance & Roadmap Alignment
Align regional roadmap with global strategy and assess value delivery
5. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in ERP systems implementation, support, or product management
- Demonstrated experience in driving ERP enhancements and process standardization across multiple regions
- Track record of translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions
Technical Expertise
- Oracle E-Business Suite – Strong functional knowledge and configuration experience
- ServiceNow – Proficiency in ticket management, workflows, and knowledge base management
- SharePoint – Experience with documentation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing platforms
- Understanding of ERP convergence methodologies and global template design
Professional Competencies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to identify root causes
- Excellent communication skills with ability to engage both business stakeholders and technical teams
- Consultative mindset with ability to provide structured, expert-level guidance
- Ability to balance regional business needs with global standardization objectives
- Project management skills with ability to manage multiple enhancement initiatives simultaneously
- Knowledge transfer and mentoring capabilities (for Senior level)
6. ABOUT VERTIV
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers' vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today's data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling, and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network.
7. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We embrace equal opportunity for all applicants and colleagues regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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