Senior Product Owner - Global Trade & Logistics Systems (REMOTE)

Senior Product Owner - Global Trade & Logistics Systems

Ferguson Technology delivers value-added solutions across our global supply chain. We are seeking a Senior Product Owner - Global Trade & Logistics Systems who will lead technology-enabled capabilities that span international logistics, trade compliance, and supplier integration & data exchange (e.g. APIs, EDI, event based data sharing).

This role sits at the intersection of enterprise scale, global trade, and partner ecosystems. You will help define how Ferguson competes in an increasingly networked and regulated supply chain environment, where resilience, compliance, and cross-border execution are strategic differentiators. The role offers direct exposure to executive decision-making and shapes multi-enterprise product strategy that balances speed, cost, and risk. The Senior Product Owner owns a unified product vision that brings together extended supply chain data collaboration and international logistics & trade compliance. You will lead the definition and delivery of capabilities that orchestrate supplier interaction, inventory visibility, and cross-border movement - enabling predictable, compliant global flows while improving availability, reducing disruption, and managing risk at scale.

This role is for product owners who enjoy solving sophisticated, enterprise-scale challenges that span systems, partners, and geographies. It leads product strategy across global logistics, trade compliance, and supplier data collaboration, owning how data and platforms work together to enable compliant, resilient cross-border supply chain execution. Success is measured by improved availability, reduced disruption, and effective risk management at scale - not by delivering a single system or feature.

Location: This role is approved to be either remote within the United States or hybrid for associates near the Newport News, VA area, in accordance with company policy. Remote candidates should be located in the Eastern or Central time zones and willing to travel up to 20% as needed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain a clear vision for the extended supply network, promoting open information flows across echelons and external partners.
• Define and evolve product capabilities that support global inventory movement, customs and trade compliance, and international logistics visibility.
• Translate business objectives into a prioritized roadmap that improves end-to-end visibility, shortens cycle times, increases resilience, and proactively mitigates supply, logistics, and regulatory risk.
• Incorporate supply chain maturity models and best practices to evolve supplier collaboration capabilities.
• Define and regularly communicate a prioritized product roadmap aligned to business priorities.
• Define, track, and communicate KPIs that articulate value, adoption, and business outcomes.
• Continuously evaluate metrics from many internal and external sources and adjust priorities as conditions change or new threats emerge.
• Own and deliver external commitments related to roadmap scope, phased integration and delivery expectations.
• Convene and influence interested parties across Supply Chain, Procurement, Technology, and external partners, including senior leaders when shaping priorities and tradeoffs.
• Partner with Logistics, Trade Compliance, Legal, and Technology teams to translate regulatory requirements into scalable, productized capabilities.
• Clearly explain complex tradeoffs and build alignment across company boundaries
• Maintain final authority over backlog prioritization and key delivery tradeoffs.
• Anticipate operational, supplier, technical, cyber, and compliance risks and design mitigation strategies.
• Own escalation decisions and adjust plans to protect long-term extended-chain value.
• Lead through influence and coach multi-functional teams with business systems analysts, engineering, architecture, data/integration teams, and external partner liaisons to ensure shared understanding of intent and scope across company boundaries.

What Success Looks Like in the First 12-18 Months

• A clearly articulated and adopted extended supply chain product roadmap, including international logistics, trade compliance, and supplier integration & data exchange capabilities.
• Improved predictability and transparency of global inventory flows, reducing delays and stockouts through improved visibility and efficient operations enabled by technology.
• At least one scaled partner integration delivering measurable business value.
• Improved visibility and exception response across priority suppliers.
• Recognition as a trusted decision-maker among senior Supply Chain and Technology leaders.
• Positioning the extended supply chain product space for continued scale, capability expansion, and future investment.

Qualifications:

• Hands on experience with international logistics, global trade compliance, supplier integrations, and partner integration technologies, including translating regulatory and logistics constraints into scalable product capabilities.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Supply Chain or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years owning product vision, backlogs and outcomes in supply chain or enterprise technologies, or 7+ years in a supply chain function with system implementation experience.
• Ability to solve sophisticated problems using judgment informed by multiple internal and external inputs.
• Demonstrated success leading and influencing cross-company and multi-functional teams.
• Strong communication skills to explain complex issues and build consensus across organizations.
• Experience modernizing or scaling enterprise supply chain products across multiple tiers.

Travel

Up to 20% travel.