Manager Product IS Commercial

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra

Position: Product Manager IS Commercial

Summary:

At the IS SSC, the primary purpose of the Product Manager IS Commercial role is to determine and oversee delivery of the strategy and roadmap for their products to achieve business outcomes. Their responsibilities include coordinating with business stakeholders to set priorities, managing new development and operations, and providing direction and oversight to product teams supporting commercial solutions including: Retail Execution, Trade Promotion Management, Distribution Management Systems, etc.

Major Duties/Responsibilities: 

Product Management

• Develop a deep understanding of business goals and processes to inform product priorities and improvement recommendations.
• Develop strong relationships and regularly communicate with product stakeholders and customers to shape the product strategy and surface and prioritize needs.
• Lead product strategy, planning, and life cycle management efforts.
• Monitor business, market, and technology trends to inform product strategy and proactively propose new solutions.
• Establish product roadmaps and release plans that satisfy requirements and achieve business outcomes.
• Contribute to translating business requirements into actionable product and technical requirements.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate product performance and proactively champion product improvements.
• Determine internal and contract/external resources and skills required for the product team to deliver on the product roadmap.
• Guide the product engineering team to scope, plan and deliver work, applying established delivery methodologies (e.g., agile methods) and best practices (e.g., reusability).
• Proactively identify and resolve blockers to achieve business objectives for the product, including technical and resourcing challenges.
• Ensure alignment and adherence to corporate, financial and IT standards (e.g., architecture, compliance, security).
• Increase adoption and consumption of product capabilities.
• Manage investment decision making and finances for the product, taking a return-on-investment approach to increasing the value while minimizing product costs.

Portfolio Management

• Produces reports as appropriate for portfolio governance

PMO Governance

• Collaborate on building and establishing the PMO Governance for IS International.

Skills & Competencies: 
 

• Relationship building and collaboration skills across diverse and matrixed stakeholders and customers.
• Ability to surface, prioritize, and balance multiple stakeholder priorities.
• Project management skills to manage projects and deadlines simultaneously.
• Experience determining and overseeing software development initiatives and estimating resource requirements.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, including experience leveraging data to inform decision making and independently solving software engineering problems.
• Strong business acumen.
• Strong experience in understanding business partner and client needs.
• Demonstrated success in defining and building products/solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements: 

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology, Mathematics, Information Systems or Business Administration, or similar.

Experience: 7+ years' experience in product management/IT business analysis, out of which atleast 3 years in Salesforce. 

• Experience leading staffs from multiple organizational functions, business units and external vendors.
• Experience leading medium-large scale solutions in midsized to large companies.
• Professional experience implementing IT multi-country solutions as well as leading local and remote resources.
• Desired experience in Consumer-Packaged Goods and/or retail industry
• Experience with Salesforce platform.
• PMP / Agile Certification is a plus.