Group Product Manager - People & Culture and Travel & Expense (Houston or San Diego) - Houston, TX

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The Mgr, Group Product - People & Culture and Travel & Expense plays a critical leadership role in shaping the vision, roadmap, and prioritization of Sempra Infrastructure's product portfolio, ensuring alignment with business client value. This role is responsible for developing and executing product strategies across a suite of HR and Travel & Expense related products including: SuccessFactors, EC Payroll, Fieldglass, Concur, ADP, and HR Master, while managing a team of Product Owners, and overseeing the full product lifecycle from concept through deployment and ongoing optimization.

Key responsibilities include serving as a "player-coach" by directly managing a suite of products while mentoring and developing Product Owners. The Group Product Manager ensures HR, Contingent Workforce Management and Travel & Expense product roadmaps are aligned with organizational goals and collaborates cross-functionally to drive innovation. Strategic decisions are informed by a deep understanding of market dynamics, client needs, and product capabilities.

This role requires deep partnership with People & Culture and other business clients to define objectives and strategies, and to champion innovation through products and services. The Group Product Manager also oversees product operations and maintenance, ensuring compliance with safety, regulatory, cybersecurity, and legal standards. Additionally, they provide leadership and guidance to Product Owners, focusing on talent development, career coaching, and performance management

Duties and Responsibilities

• Defines and communicates group's roadmap and vision across all teams, setting objectives for a 6-12 month time horizon. Communicates this vision to stakeholders, executive level leadership, and Product Owners across group. Identifies key outcomes to meet stakeholder needs with an eye towards innovation and continuous improvement. Manages complex needs across multiple business and IT groups, responsible for suite of products their group represents. Ensures that group's value delivered is measurable. Owns quarterly planning and roadmaps for group. Proactively champions for new delivery opportunities, collaborating with stakeholders.
• Actively engages with clients and key stakeholders to understand business needs and shape products or services that deliver optimal value across the portfolio. Maintains a well-defined set of features and initiatives to provide clear direction and alignment for product teams. Ensures backlog items are strategically prioritized and structured into a transparent hierarchy-initiatives and features-that is consistently communicated across teams.
• Leads strategic product delivery and stakeholder alignment to ensure alignment with business objectives. Owns the end-to-end delivery and value realization across a portfolio of products, guiding the prioritization of high-impact initiatives, features, and user stories to drive measurable business outcomes. Major initiatives are defined as strategic technology solutions that can be broken down into actionable components for agile execution.
• Validates the completion of major initiatives by confirming they meet end-user requirements. Effectively communicates the value of the product suite and associated work plans, facilitates continuous feedback loops between teams and clients, and provides performance feedback to Product Owners on delivered outcomes.
• Leads cross-functional team, including business analysts, developers, and external partners, by providing strategic direction, motivation, and clear guidance. Responsible for all aspects of employee management, including setting goals, overseeing work, and driving performance. This includes coaching and developing team members, managing training and growth opportunities, and conducting performance evaluations. The role may also include supervising team leads, ensuring consistent leadership across the group. Through strong people management and vision-setting, the Group Product Manager fosters a high-performing, collaborative, and accountable team culture.
• Performs other duties as assigned (no more than 5% of duties).

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Business Administration, related field or equivalent training and/or experience.
• Master's Degree or MBA preferred

Experience

• Typically requires 8 years of related experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 7+ years Managing solution delivery and/or enterprise architecture
• 8+ years Progressive related work experience in Project or Product Delivery, Product Management, IT and / or Business Operations or equivalent experience
• 5+ years Demonstrated experience and technical expertise with SuccessFactors, EC Payroll, Fieldglass, Concur, ADP, and HR Master
• 3+ years Related supervisory and/or lead experience.
• 3+ years' Experience working with in the energy sector or with a utility.
• Experience in both US and Mexico Regulatory environments is a plus.
• Stakeholder Management - Ability to create and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders (including clients) in order to drive outcomes and create alignment around a vision or course of action.
• Adaptability and Learning Agility - Ability to learn, adapt, unlearn, and relearn to rapidly adapt to changing business needs, processes, standards, and tools; a strong ability to prioritize and reprioritize work.
• User Experience - Strong understanding of how users will interact with systems, applications, and products, with an ability to design applications and interfaces that are consumable and easy to navigate.
• Value Realization - Strong ability to identify the benefits provided by proposed user story or feature relative to the effort that it will require from the team in order to drive the effective prioritization of work to maximize the benefits delivered by the team to the customer.
• Product Management - Strong product management skills, including an ability to communicate and inspire product vision, strategy and roadmap, apply unique business insights, prioritize work to be completed, and make sound decisions aligned to business goals.
• Financial Acumen - Strong financial acumen, including the ability to accurately report spending in the IT function and an understanding of both CapEx and OpEx budgets.
• Automation and Security Concepts - Knowledge of Automation and Security Concepts (e.g., test automation, code coverage, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, etc.).
• Agile Tools - Knowledge of Agile Tools, such as Azure, Jira, etc.
• Agile Methodologies - Knowledge of concepts, including Agile Scrum and/or Kanban, and application of Agile methodology (e.g., Lean, SAFe, LeSS) for project management to be able to design, implement and manage projects.
• Experience with large-scale ERP migrations or cloud transformations.

Licenses and Certifications

• Standard certifications in SAP modules and products (e.g. FI, CO, PS, SD, PM, MM, WM, BPC, GRC, Concur, Ariba, etc)
• Experience in SAP RISE
• Strong project management skills (PMP or Agile certifications a plus)

HYBRID: Work a combination of onsite and remote days each week, typically 4 days per week onsite.

Information Technology

Full-time

Note: The Company strives to ensure that employees are paid equitably and competitively. Starting salaries may vary based on factors such as relevant experience, qualifications, and education.

Sempra Infrastructure offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond base salary. Company benefits include health and welfare (medical, dental, vision), employer contributions to retirement benefits, life insurance, paid time off, as well as other company offerings such as tuition reimbursement, paid parental leave, and employee assistance programs.

Houston Center of Excellence-TXHS

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The actual pay rate will depend on the person's qualifications and experience.

$145,500.00 - $229,500.00 / year

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