Role & responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap

- Define and maintain the global W&D; product strategy aligned with Opella's Digital Manufacturing vision.
- Own the multi-year roadmap for Siemens Opcenter and Tulip W&D; capabilities.
- Prioritize enhancements, compliance requirements, vendor releases, lifecycle initiatives and

transformation activities.
- Balance business value, operational stability, compliance requirements and cost efficiency.

Service Ownership & Operations
- Ensure stable and compliant operation of all W&D; solutions.

Product Owner, Weighing & Dispensing | Digital Manufacturing & Supply
- Govern incident, problem, change and release management processes.
- Monitor application performance, service levels and operational KPIs.
- Lead major incident resolution and business continuity activities.
- Ensure sustainable support models across vendors and platforms.
- Drive corrective actions for recurring operational issues.

Business Partnership
- Act as the primary Digital partner to the Global Weighing & Dispensing Business Process Owner.
- Translate business priorities into a digital product roadmap.
- Support standardization and harmonization of W&D; processes across the manufacturing network.
- Ensure digital capabilities support operational excellence, compliance and manufacturing performance

objectives.
- Facilitate collaboration between the BPO, sites, Quality, Validation, vendors and Digital teams.

While manufacturing sites remain key stakeholders, engagement is typically coordinated through the BPO governance model, with direct site interactions occurring when required for deployments, incidents, audits, investigations, process improvements or transformation activities.

Compliance & Validation

- Ensure all W&D; platforms remain GxP compliant throughout their lifecycle.
- Maintain audit and inspection readiness.
- Support computerized system validation activities.
- Ensure adherence to data integrity, audit trail and quality requirements.
- Drive remediation activities resulting from audits, inspections, vendor findings or compliance assessments.

Vendor Management & Delivery Oversight As the W&D; product does not currently have dedicated Functional Expert or Project Manager resources, the

Product Owner delivers the roadmap primarily through external vendors and implementation partners.

- Manage Siemens and other strategic partners supporting the W&D; landscape.
- Prioritize enhancements, bug fixes, patches, upgrades, regulatory changes and lifecycle activities.




- Govern vendor performance, service quality and delivery commitments.
- Drive issue resolution and continuous service improvement.
- Manage support and escalation processes.
- Coordinate upgrades, validation activities and technology lifecycle initiatives.
- Ensure applications remain fully supported and aligned with vendor roadmaps.
- Oversee delivery of roadmap commitments across the W&D; ecosystem.

Functional & Product Leadership
- Act as the functional authority for Weighing & Dispensing capabilities.
- Ensure business requirements are translated into product priorities and delivery plans.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the W&D; landscape.
- Support evaluation of future-state capabilities and process innovations.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Delivery teams on major

initiatives. Technical architecture ownership remains with Enterprise Architecture.

Team & Operating Model The Product Owner operates within the Digital Manufacturing & Supply organization and reports directly to the

Digital Product Lead Manufacturing.

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Digital Manufacturing & Supply The Product Owner acts as the single Digital owner for the Weighing & Dispensing capability and currently does not have dedicated Functional Expert or Project Management resources assigned to the product.

The Product Owner primarily partners with the Global Weighing & Dispensing Business Process Owner (BPO),

who represents the business process, defines business priorities and drives process standardization across the manufacturing network.

Working together, the Product Owner and BPO ensure alignment between digital capabilities, business objectives, regulatory requirements, operational excellence goals and future transformation initiatives.

This operating model requires a highly autonomous individual capable of balancing strategic planning,

operational support, stakeholder management, vendor oversight, TSA exit activities, compliance leadership and transformation initiatives across a global manufacturing landscape.

As a result,



the role combines responsibilities that in other product domains may be distributed across multiple roles, including:

- Product strategy and roadmap ownership.
- Demand management and prioritization.
- Business relationship management.
- Vendor governance and performance management.
- Release and lifecycle management.
- Compliance and validation oversight.
- Coordination of enhancements, maintenance and remediation activities.
- Support of transformation and separation initiatives.

Required Experience
- 6+ years of experience in Manufacturing Systems, MES, Weighing & Dispensing, Manufacturing Operations

or Digital Manufacturing environments.
- Proven experience managing business-critical applications in regulated industries.
- Experience working with manufacturing operations and shopfloor processes.
- Experience leading application lifecycle management and transformation initiatives.
- Experience managing software vendors and external service providers.
- Experience operating in GxP-regulated environments.

Required Functional & Technical Skills
- Strong understanding of Weighing & Dispensing business processes.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing execution and shopfloor operations.
- Experience with Siemens Opcenter W&D; solutions or equivalent platforms.
- Understanding of digital manufacturing ecosystems and site operations.
- Knowledge of GxP regulations, validation and data integrity principles.
- Understanding of business interfaces and data exchanges between W&D;, ERP, MES and related

manufacturing systems.
- Experience managing global multi-site applications.
- Robust analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to manage vendors and technology lifecycle activities effectively.

Leadership Competencies
- Strong ownership mindset and accountability.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Product Owner, Weighing & Dispensing | Digital Manufacturing & Supply
- Ability to influence across Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain and Digital organizations.
- Strong business partnering capabilities.
- Strategic thinking combined with operational execution.
- Customer-focused and results-oriented approach.
- Ability to operate effectively in complex and highly regulated manufacturing environments.

Positioning note: This role owns the Weighing & Dispensing capability across Siemens Opcenter and Tulip, with business process alignment through the BPO, technical architecture under Enterprise Architecture, and delivery execution primarily through vendors and implementation partners.

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