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Product Manager (Plant & Equipment Systems)

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Key Responsibilities

  • Own the product vision, roadmap, and delivery priorities for plant and equipment systems, aligned with enterprise transformation objectives and operational needs.
  • Act as Product Owner for Agile delivery teams, managing backlog, defining user stories, and ensuring acceptance criteria reflect business, technical, and compliance requirements.
  • Partner with plant operations, compliance, finance, procurement, and site teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable product capabilities.
  • Drive solution design and enhancement across core domains, including:
  • Plant rental lifecycle management: request, approval, allocation, dispatch, return, and chargeback.
  • Asset register and utilization tracking.
  • Preventive maintenance, inspections, and audit workflows.
  • Compliance documentation management, including certificates, permits, inspection records, and audit trails.
  • Scheduling and allocation optimization to improve internal asset usage.
  • Work within the JD Edwards ecosystem, coordinating with ERP stakeholders and technical teams to ensure solutions align with existing enterprise data structures, processes, and integration standards.
  • Collaborate with technology teams on integration with JD Edwards modules and related systems such as document management, reporting platforms, and potentially IoT/telematics solutions.
  • Define and monitor KPIs such as utilization rates, downtime, asset availability, compliance completion, and external rental spend.
  • Support data-driven decision-making through dashboards, reports, and operational analytics for business and leadership stakeholders.
  • Lead UAT, stakeholder readiness, release coordination, and post-implementation adoption activities.
  • Ensure solutions are delivered in line with enterprise governance, security, and architecture standards.

Key Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, business systems, or enterprise application delivery.
  • Strong experience working across business and technology teams in complex enterprise environments.
  • Experience in construction, engineering, logistics, or other asset-intensive industries preferred.
  • Familiarity with ERP-enabled business processes; JD Edwards experience is highly desirable.
  • Strong understanding of asset lifecycle management, maintenance workflows, scheduling, and compliance processes.
  • Proven ability to manage stakeholders at different levels, including operational leaders and technical teams.
  • Experience with Agile delivery methods and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to define business metrics and translate operational needs into product outcomes.
  • Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Direct experience with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, particularly Equipment/Plant Maintenance, Fixed Assets, or Capital Asset Management.
  • Exposure to plant tracking, telematics, or enterprise document control solutions.
  • Experience with workflow automation, reporting, and enterprise integrations.
  • Familiarity with construction compliance and audit processes.

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About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.

Additional employment information
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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