Senior Manager, Product Planning

BCD Travel is a global leader in business travel solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Manager for Product Planning to lead product planning efforts for assigned solutions. This role involves developing product road maps, market strategies, and fostering stakeholder relationships to enhance commercial opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Focus on product planning and development, including monitoring your product development project to ensure its on-scope and on-schedule
• Make sure your assigned products have sound business plans, including an analysis of product profitability, sales success, and pricing strategy
• Identify current market needs and possible future gaps in our offering and conduct feasibility studies to bring ideas forward
• Provide coaching and feedback for the development of your direct reports
• Build relationships with our vendors; listen to their thoughts and concerns and foster ways to work together
• Perform or direct personnel recruiting, hiring, training, and separation. Exercises hiring and firing authority in coordination with HR

Requirements:

• Extensive product planning experience
• Experience in business travel or travel management
• Exceptional knowledge of GDS Sabre and GDS Amadeus
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You'll interact with a variety of partners and will need a high level of comfort in communicating with professionals of different backgrounds
• Competency with Microsoft Office Products, and collaborative software used for projects with remote team members and stakeholders
• Excellent time-management and project-management skills: you'll be constantly challenged to balance multiple initiatives, projects, and perspectives
• Capable of managing and working in a virtual and multinational team environment