Product Managers
are essential for ensuring that products achieve their primary purpose: enabling users to perform tasks that generate value for the company.
Core Responsibilities: The role encompasses two broad areas of responsibility:
Strategic Vision & Alignment:
Setting the strategic vision for the product, placing the customer and their needs at the center of all decisions. Ensuring team priorities directly support business outcomes for customers, the product, and both technical and enabling teams. This requires continually aligning the product strategy and objectives across customer, product, technical, and enabling teams. Product Backlog Management:
Managing the product backlog, which involves prioritizing the work of assigned squads to realize the product vision and aligned strategy.
Execution and Accountability:
The Product Manager is also responsible for operational execution and continuous improvement: - The Product Manager resolves and escalates impediments, addresses technical debt, manages risks, assures value delivery, and drives continuous improvements for the respective product.
- The incumbent acts as a critical link between Unit Leads, the Platform Lead, and Digital Leads, facilitating communication, driving the flow of information, and sharing crucial progress updates to ensure successful delivery.
- Ultimately, the Product Manager is accountable for the coordination, execution, and delivery of value for the respective product within the Unit, ensuring alignment with the companys overall strategy, commitments, and goals.
Product Management
- Accountable for product success from conception to decommissioning.
- Identify domain needs and develop/validate product concepts.
- Build a business case for the product.
- Oversee product build and launch; ensure availability, stability, and compliance.
- Collaborate with teams: product development, marketing, finance, legal, manufacturing, operations, and sales.
- Drive agile best practices for improved delivery and continuous planning (e.g., sprint planning).
- Co-create user stories aligned with product backlog prioritization.
- Conduct market opportunity identification, competitive analysis, sales enablement, and monitor domain performance.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Identify key stakeholder groups.
- Use discretion to balance strong opinions and deliver value.
- Build trust by understanding and meeting stakeholder needs.
Product Strategy
- Provide strategic leadership with end-to-end ownership of products.
- Plan and optimize capabilities to achieve business outcomes efficiently.
- Require strong strategic planning, decision-making, and influencing skills.
Product Discovery & Delivery
- Create comprehensive product roadmaps to clarify user needs and requirements.
- Track and report progress against 90-day outcomes and overall product health.
- Plan and manage product delivery while streamlining the backlog.
- Monitor user feedback and metrics to enhance user experience and business value.
- Leverage Design Thinking methodology for usability, feasibility, business fit, and value testing.
People & Collaboration
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with product users and stakeholders.
- Foster effective cross-functional collaboration for valuable product delivery.
- Maintain strong relationships with colleagues in product management and engineering.
- Mentor junior product managers to enhance product management and agile practices.
Required:
Education & Experience:
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, OR a minimum of 4 years of equivalent practical experience.
Professional Experience (in addition to the above):
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager.
- 5+ years of experience with procurement processes like Buying process, Supplier Onboarding, Supplier Engagement, outline Agreements and Technologies
- 2+ years of experience with Agile development and DevOps practices.
Skills & Knowledge
- Product Management
- Technologies enabling Procurement processes like Buying and Invoicing - SAP MM, Supplier Onboarding with applications like SAP MDG/ SAP Ariba, Oro.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a team environment.
- Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and modern software development practices
Preferred:
- Expertise in the end-to-end procurement lifecycle (Supplier Master Data, Buying, and Payments), backed by hands-on experience with core enterprise platforms like SAP ECC, SAP Ariba, and Esker.
- Proficiency in leveraging Cloud technologies (e.g., Databricks, Azure Storage) and designing robust integrations via MuleSoft and Azure Integration Services (API Management).
- Adept at utilizing data analysis and reporting tools to derive actionable insights and drive product decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence initiatives that involve cross-functional teams from initiation to delivery
- Experience with Design Thinking, user-centered design & user analysis
- Ability to establish and manage initiatives against a set of key metrics and goals
- Strong analytical, management and organizational skills
- Strong verbal and written communication abilities: must effectively communicate with technical and non-technical people
- Experience in building product vision, product roadmap, product strategy, and competitive analysis
- Proven experience in designing, developing, delivering or leading digital solutions in a complex global environment
- Strong strategic planning and decision-making skills with ability to evolve solution strategy based on research, data and industry trends
- Ability to measure and effectively communicate the business value of proposals and deliverables
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