DIR Product Manager Job Description
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DIR Product Manager Job Description
- Engage in discovery/test & learn activities to quickly validate concepts as appropriate for investments
- Invest time with current and potential customers to understand their needs & habits and to elicit their feedback to potential product concepts and/or released product iterations
- Lead collaboration with Technology Partners to evaluate build, buy and/or partner decisions to advance product strategy and maximize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Identify barriers and lead the removal of barriers or plan adjustments
- As the expert for the digital product portfolio, partner with key stakeholders, internaland external client groups to influence and contribute on decisions and initiatives
- Influence others and gain consensus using data and validated learnings
- Leads development and recommendation of new techniques and processes to support innovative solutions
- Create and foster an environment rich in diversity of thought, culture and background
- Monitors budgets and operational effectiveness
- Coach, develop and mentor members of the team
- In-depth understanding of data integration best practices, leading industry applications and features such as master data management, entity resolution, data quality assessment, metadata management
- Undergraduate degree in Mathematical Finance, Financial Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent
- Experience building software product which includes reporting templates for stress testing for CCAR/DFAST
- Detail-oriented skills and ability to manage multiple projects at one time
- This role is responsible for managing a software product from development to release, assessing the market and defining a product strategy through coordination with internal teams, soliciting and implementing internal and external client feedback
- Ablity to support clients and IS projects Sales opportunities on a set of features or solutions
DIR Product Manager Job Description
- Responsible for conducting market analysis to identify opportunities and requirements for new products and enhancements to existing products
- Manage and collaborate extensively with internal stakeholders for product scoping, development, appraisal and market testing, to translate market trends and needs into commercial opportunities
- Responsibility for the development, enhancement and product management of Maritime & Trade’s marine & logistics market solutions
- Define commercial metrics for developed solutions, and drive product performance in line with business targets
- Evaluate and keep up to date with all industry, competitor and technology trends in the market and their possible impact on the overall commodities and market forecasting product portfolio
- Based on in-depth market knowledge and input from market-facing IHS stakeholders, guides and validates user requirements and user stories that address critical customer needs and solve pervasive market problems
- Orchestrates the development and execution of plans for the commercial launch of new and enhanced products
- Occasional travel including overnight domestic or international trips will be required
- Be involved in the day-to-day interactions
- Work with Product Marketing on sales enablement and demand generation activities like webinars
- Fluently bilingual in English and French would be a definite asset
- 12+ years relevant product management or product development experience working in business and industry transformation situations with strong technology / e-commerce knowledge and proven innovation leadership
- Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action, with experience starting new digital businesses or products and services
- Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to stakeholders to drive decision making and buy-in
- Clear passion for topics of automotive products and services, digital delivery and product transformation and an ability to identify possibilities to innovate in the target product space
- Demonstrated ability to build relationships across functions, measure, evaluate and act on results (financial and operational)
DIR Product Manager Job Description
- Provide leadership in coordinating activities (from specification through development to launch) for all relevant development streams – this may include writing user stories
- Drive decisions on priorities and direction to take, based on customer and market feedback organizational constraints
- Monitor the execution of the solutions strategies in coordination with various internal departments
- Establish collaborative relationships with i) Product Strategists
- Establish close relationship with Market Intelligence team to ensure that market feedback remains at the core of development activities and decisions
- Facilitate discussions and reach consensus with appropriate groups to help drive decisions forward
- Document decisions
- Develop integrated project plans
- Manage stakeholders, including providing transparency on plans and progress against plans
- Work with Marketing team to communicate content, feature and functionality rollouts to internal stakeholders and external end users as needed
- Demonstrated skills in the area of research and development – ability to work with data to develop insights interpret and make recommendations
- Experience with contracts, pricing and business development
- Has an understanding of and experience in regulatory compliance
- Strong oral and written communication skills combined with the ability to influence others to accomplish objectives
- Ability to facilitate, prepare and present formal presentations to senior management
- Experience allocating resources (organizing and scheduling)
DIR Product Manager Job Description
- The product owner for at least one mid-size product or feature set of a large product
- May manage a product analyst, perform senior analyst type functions and work directly with engineering to develop the product as an active member of the development team who can manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Analyse and understand new supervisory regulations
- Subject Matter Expertise on the product to assist our Clients facing teams during implementation projects, provide level-2 support to customers in production and Sales teams during Proof-of-Concept activities
- Write product specifications for Engineering teams to develop new software functionalities and follow up the progress of those developments until the release of the new software version
- Development work in order to produce the regulatory configuration files that complement our solution
- Ability to converse with Client IT teams and internal Engineering teams to analyze and document issues and to convey corresponding solutions
- Roll out product releases, including training the sales, services and support teams on new features and product pricing, packaging, and positioning
- The complete ownership of partner relationships and delivery of joint partner products
- The management of the development life cycle for our API product including project management, stakeholder communication, and appropriate support tasks to ensure end-user satisfaction
- Typically 10 years or more of relevant experience in the maritime markets, on either the commercial shipping or port management environments
- Recent experience in product management will be beneficial
- Experience of independently managing multiple projects across multiple product teams within a matrix organization, and demonstrated experience in working effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to successfully lead multidisciplinary, geographical dispersed project teams, while meeting deadlines and budgets
- Must have exceptional written and verbal communications skills, including ability to independently write or edit customer-facing or external communications, as well the ability to develop and conduct presentations for clients, prospects and executive management
- Bachelors degree in maritime business, or equivalent maritime qualifications, desirable but not essential
DIR Product Manager Job Description
- Manage expectations to ensure that the project scope is met while keeping an eye out for acceleration points or necessary pivots
- Conduct industry research to ensure we remain cutting edge in product development and project management techniques
- Document project plans, requirements and other relevant documents that will be used to communicate with other teams
- Work with technical and infrastructure groups to ensure smooth deployment of products
- Manage and run daily stand-up meetings with our development team
- Manage and recommend prioritization of Product Backlog to broader team
- Manage product releases
- Conduct user acceptance testing throughout development cycle and own the quality overall of each product release
- Effectively communicate status and risk across the organization to different departments and roles
- Proactively focus on results and independent problem solving
- Undergraduate degree (Bachelors) required in business related discipline, Advance level business degree preferred
- Proven strategy experience preferably gained in a strategy consulting, investment banking or investment management environment
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills (including intermediate knowledge of Excel)
- Experience in product management and/or product marketing
- Ability to analyze issues and accounts to determine exposures and successful solutions
- Good understanding of IT infrastructure, software architecture and public cloud solution including AWS, Azure