Job Description
Role
As Product Manager, you will work with our internal teams to set the strategic context for our various products and to develop new product ideas based on various interactions and information. You must possess a blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.
Responsibilities
- To create, gain agreement for and implement product strategies for the suite of products and target markets.
- Develop new product roadmaps to address their needs along with the internal stakeholders
- Track technology trends and validate product requirements and specifications in collaboration with colleagues, lead customers and channel partners
- Gather data on new product ideas and evaluate them for financial and market potential.
- Define product specifications using high-level wireframes, flow diagrams and clear and consistent user stories with any acceptance criteria or supporting documentation supplied.
- Play a lead role in the product lifecycle by breaking down product requirements into user stories, participating in development sprints and taking the product/project to market launch
- Support product development in resolving functional questions throughout the development effort
- Work with and help the Marketing and Sales teams to help develop product collateral, demos and training courses for product launches/product line enhancements.
- Measure product performance after a new feature is implemented
- Analyse and report on the performance of features in production, reflecting on successes and identifying areas for continuous improvement.
- Work with the cross-functional product team consisting of Software Engineering, Solutions, Marketing, Pre-Sales, Customer Services and Technical Services to ensure whole-product readiness.
- Ensure Product Best practices are adhered and cascaded to the team members
Skills
- Proven strategic and commercial experience in a product management / product development role with a forward thinking technology company
- Proven track record of successful new product development using formal methodologies working with an Agile Technology Team, preferably using Scrum
- Sound understanding and practical experience of modern technology stacks, application development methodologies and hosting infrastructures including cloud and on-premise.
- Ability to continuously prioritise development based on business value
- Experience of the Supply Chain or similar distribution sectors and the use of technology therein
- Software product internationalisation