Product Manager

Role Overview

• Partner with senior stakeholders to create the vision and articulate the short and long-term product strategy and life cycle plan for your product portfolio
• ensuring alignment and managing interdependencies with a broader digital applications strategic roadmap.
• Develop business cases and financial plans for portfolios for which you are accountable
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and execute solutions that meet the defined scope on time and at cost, ensuring projects meet business and quality standards
• Drive life cycle decisions by evaluating trade-offs that balance customer experience, strategic value, cost, and timelines.
• Execute life cycle plans following established standards and supporting change management with key business partners
• Establish key performance metrics across all platforms and collaborate with cross-functional partners to define and measure value capture
• Accountability for maintaining the integrity of the product portfolio database/tool, ensuring all project information (status, financials, resourcing) is current and accurate for monthly and quarterly reporting
• Effectively manage communication of product execution timelines and performance with customer and other key stakeholders
• Partner with customers to develop and support execution for change management plans, ensuring successful product adoption
• Support recruiting, development, and training for the product team
• including support for writing effective user stores, managing the product backlog and making trade-off decisions
• Support the Scrum Master in proactively identifying and helping to resolve project issues, manage risks to project delivery, and ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent University degree required; focused degree in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields preferred.
• Minimum six (6) years of relevant professional work experience
• Work experience in supply chain or software development, with significant leadership experience delivering successful and innovative digital and/or software products
• Demonstrable experience working in Agile environments and applying Scrum principles to deliver successful outcomes.
• Extensive experience in setting and delivering a strategy with full accountability for execution outcomes.
• Customer Obsession and strong facilitation skills, with a passion for distilling complex business use cases into elegant solutions that delight users
• A bias towards action with strong decision-making capabilities
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority and communicate clearly across functions
• including proficiency in identifying and resolving conflicts constructively
• Ability to build out financial plans and formal business cases.
• Strong financial acumen with direct experience managing budgets, timelines, and resources
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment with changing priorities.

Benefits

• Inclusive work environment
• Professional development opportunities