Overview
Job Summary:
Product Manager – Mobile and Technology
Guide a products
contribution to a business unit. This extends from increasing the profitability
of existing products to developing new products or features for the company.
Determine and manage the roadmap of a technical product. Maintain a wish list
and backlog of new features of the product for development prioritisation.
Expand commercial software product portfolio.
Key
Responsibilities and Deliverables:
Effective Product Lifecycle management
• Managing the entire product line and life cycle from strategic planning to
tactical activities
• Research and define market requirements for current and future products by
conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and
non-customers
• Driving a solution through market requirements, product contract, and
positioning
• Developing and implementing a go-to-market plan, working with all departments
to execute this plan
• Packaging the features into product releases
• Developing strategies to meet customer demands
• Manage the product roadmap & Lifecycle
Effective
Pre-Sales
• Responsible for actively driving and managing the pre sales process with
direct and channel customers
• Articulate the company’s technology and product portfolio, positioning to
both business and technical users
• Provide technical solutions in a professional manner and to agreed timeframes
• Create and confidently deliver technical presentations internally and
externally
• Deliver training on solutions and provide product support to channel partners
and internal
• Stakeholders
Effective stakeholder engagement
• Building and maintaining relationships with both internal and external
stakeholders
• Close interaction with development leads, product architects, and key
customers
• Inter departmental collaboration
• Interface with the development team, articulating customer requirement, to
ensure smooth transition from Sale to Delivery
Effective
teamwork and self-management
• Proactively develop own skills and knowledge of relevant best practice and
ensure appropriate skills and knowledge transfer
• Actively and consistently maintain high standards of professionalism in all
aspects of personal presentation and delivery
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are
consistently and accurately maintained including meeting all deadlines
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures
• Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
• Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
• Demonstrate flexibility
in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and
respond to organisational needs
Requirements
Minimum
Qualifications: Information
technology and/or sales and marketing degree
Minimum Experience: 6-8 years of software marketing/product management
experience, Knowledgeable in technology
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Possess a unique blend of business
and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a
reality
Enjoy spending time in the market to understand their problems, and find innovative
solutions for the broader market
Be able to communicate with all areas of the company and non-technical clients
