Provides direction to product development and the overall process of the product and services function. Builds products and services from existing ideas and helps to develop new ideas based on industry experience and contact with customers and prospects. Increases profitability of existing products and services to developing new solutions which advance business objectives and client needs. Builds strong working relationships with marketing, sales, support staff, product development and vendors plus senior management and key customers.
What Part Will You Play?
- Manages the process from product development to product launch, ensuring execution is in line with project plan, for small or moderately complex new product initiatives or existing product initiatives.
- For assigned products, owns, manages, and communicates a product roadmap, including collaborating with industry analysts to form competitive analysis, and with delivery, sales, and relationship management teams to determine prioritization, development, and ongoing costs of delivery, and market positioning.
- For assigned products, develops the "go to market packaging" for existing products or smaller product initiatives and supports the "go to market" strategy on the new or more complex product initiatives.
- Develops business cases requiring minimal analytical skills for new product functionality to serve as inputs to decision-making, prioritization, pricing, and client value proposition.
- For assigned product initiatives, collaborates with company business leaders, industry analysts, sales, IT, legal, strategic marketing and relationship management teams to define product goals, objectives, market positioning, and pricing strategies.
- Follows a structured, repeatable process for collecting and analyzing market research.
- Participates in product concept and requirements workshops with clients and internal development teams in pursuit of product requirements, objectives, and architecture decisions.
- For assigned products, supports the collaboration with product delivery and technology architecture to validate detailed design, particularly to ensure that product objectives and key requirements are met and aligned with the market needs and the business unit strategy.
What Are We Looking For in This Role?
- Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Business or Computer Science.
- Typically Minimum 6 Years Relevant Experience in similar business product services and/or external customer/market experience.
- Preferred Qualifications: Prefer experience in a software development environment or in a professional services role.
- Skills / Knowledge: Having wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve moderately complex issues in creative and effective ways.
- Job Complexity: Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
- Supervision: Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel (Team Lead).
