Warehouse Management System Functional Lead

Warehouse Management System Functional Lead

Chobani Information Technology is seeking a Warehouse Management System (WMS) Functional Lead. The Warehouse Management System (WMS) Functional Lead is a key member of Chobani’s Enterprise Applications organization and is responsible for the functional ownership, roadmap, and delivery of SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) capabilities across Chobani manufacturing plants and warehouse facilities.

This role serves as the primary product owner for SAP WM, partnering closely with warehouse operations, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and logistics teams to understand business needs, pain points, and future capabilities. The WMS Product Manager translates those needs into a clear product roadmap, functional designs, and delivered solutions that improve operational efficiency, inventory accuracy, compliance, and cost effectiveness.

Additionally, This role serves as the primary product owner for SAP WM and its integration with warehouse execution and automation technologies, including Warehouse Control Systems (WCS), Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS), and Laser Guided / Automated Guided Vehicles (LGV/AGV). The role partners closely with warehouse operations, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, engineering, automation vendors, and systems integrators to deliver reliable, scalable, and highly automated warehouse solutions.

The role is primarily a
functional lead
position with hands-on system responsibilities and is expected to prototype solutions in non-production environments, demonstrate functionality to business users, support production operations, and manage the promotion of approved solutions into production in partnership with SAP technical teams.

Product Ownership & Roadmap

• Own the
  SAP WM product roadmap
  , aligning warehouse and manufacturing capabilities with Chobani’s broader SAP S/4
  
  HANA and Supply Chain strategy.
• Partner with warehouse, manufacturing, and supply chain stakeholders to understand operational needs, pain points, and future-state requirements.
• Translate business needs into prioritized backlog items, clearly articulating business value, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Balance run, grow, and transform work across production support, enhancements, and strategic initiatives.

Functional Leadership & Solution Design

• Act as the
  functional lead for SAP WM
  , providing deep expertise in inbound, outbound, inventory management, material movements, and warehouse execution processes.
• Design, configure, and prototype SAP WM solutions in non-production environments to validate requirements and demonstrate capabilities to end users.
• Lead functional solutioning across WM process areas, including integration with MM, PP, QM, SD, and Finance.
• Partner with SAP Functional Analysts, Developers, Basis, and Integration teams to ensure solutions are scalable, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Lead functional design for SAP WM integration with Warehouse Control Systems (WCS), AS/RS, conveyors, sortation systems, and LGV/AGV solutions.
• Partner with internal engineering teams and external automation vendors to define interface requirements, message flows, error handling, and operational monitoring models.
• Design, configure, and prototype SAP WM solutions in non-production environments, including automation-integrated scenarios, to validate requirements and demonstrate functionality to end users and operations leadership.
• Ensure WM solutions are designed for scalability, resiliency, and operational continuity in highly automated environments.

Delivery & Execution

• Develop business cases, ROI analysis, and value realization models for WM initiatives.
• Scope work efforts, including t-shirt sizing, time-to-deliver estimates, resource requirements, and dependency identification.
• Support initiative execution across the full delivery lifecycle: requirements, design, build, testing, cutover, and hypercare.
• Coordinate and support user acceptance testing (UAT), including test scenario development and execution.
• Provide functional production support for SAP WM, including issue triage, root cause analysis, and resolution.
• Partner with support…