Product Owner/ Product Manager - Manufacturing Domain

Our client is India's marquee global technology company. They are an international flag-bearer of technical and managerial excellence. With offices around the globe, the company has a comprehensive presence across multiple segments of the IT product and service industries. They are a respected career company and a long-term wealth creator

Role & responsibilities

We are seeking to identify a Product Owner who is responsible for managing a backlog of generic and branded Account features, enhancements, in house tools, and maintenance globally across all brand site. Is responsible for Production incidents, production escalations, scoping site enhancement requests, understanding business requirements and needs, and ensuring the operational integrity of the websites both in development and live.

He should have skills to perform day to day management of projects/tasks/resources and to work across the business in order to produce the final deliverable on time and to budget. Exposure to Product Development in Agile Environment.

Key responsibilities:

1. Product Roadmap & Problem definition

Will participate in defining roadmap, consolidating product ideas, identify potential partners in both product and technology landscape and create mid to long term vision for the top of funnel experience Collaborate to create a review product roadmap, product overview, objective, manage distribution, and incorporate all change requests to the created roadmap. Understand business scope and ROI of every feature in roadmap.

1. Ideation and Strategy

Will Ideate and actively participate/lead in design sprints, workshops, follow up-sessions and customer research. Create visual aids and strategy document for the structured process of ideation. Create strategy document leveraging inputs from all stakeholders.

1. Communication and Status Reporting

Proactively communicate ongoing problems, manage customer relationships and expectations. Report on product and service problems. Demonstrate fluency in business processes and process differentiation. Proactively identify and remove project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team. Understand and negotiate needs and expectations and balance value propositions for multiple competing stakeholders..

1. Prospecting & Proposals

Work with marketing to develop or review collaterals, solution brochures, perspectives. Contribute and Lead end-to-end Consulting proposals, Request for Proposals

Generate new leads through network/participation in any internal or external forums to penetrate to Global Markets.

1. Client Engagement

Collaborate with Developers and QA to implement the requirements. Manage both internal and external partnerships from concept-to-delivery to ensure that roadmap priorities meet our guest and business expectations and needs. Monitor and identify stakeholder needs staying current on industry standards and trends. Ability to deal with multiple stakeholders and manage conflicts.

1. Project Scoping

Translate product roadmaps high-level strategy into an actionable plan built on specific features, enhancements, and fixes to build into different releases. Collaborate with the stakeholders to discuss their understanding and review the release scope/plan. Create release plans, support product deliverables and post release activities.

1. Release, Scoping and Resource Planning

Translate product roadmaps high-level strategy into an actionable plan built on specific features, enhancements, and fixes to build into different releases. Collaborate with the stakeholders to discuss their understanding and review the release scope/plan. Perform Post Release validation including Hotfixes.

1. Requirements Gathering & Analysis

Conduct Business stakeholder interviews, Elicit and clearly document business and systems requirements. Create end-to-end user stories for specific product features with all relevant information. Analyze and synthesize business problems/requirements, document problem statements and estimate efforts. Provide project level analysis producing required project analysis documentation business requirements, scope matrix, use cases, sequence diagrams, future state proposals, UAT plan.

Preferred candidate profile

1. Having 6-12 years of work experience in manufacturing domain, consulting experience preferred.
2. Work as a Product Owner / Product Manager in manufacturing domain.
3. Experience in Emerging trends in user-facing product attributes such as usability (UI, Configuration files, command line parameters, etc.) and integration
4. Knowledge of global markets, specific technology areas related to business, technology innovations around the globe.
5. Strong analytic thinking and applying varied techniques to support efficient requirements gathering. 
6. Strong understanding of Software Development practices and project life cycles. Demonstrate knowledge of one or more complex functional domains.
7. Good stakeholder management Skills
8. Good client Management skills