Senior Product Group Manager

Role Overview

• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling disciplinary actions, as required
• Oversees and leads a highly complex and diverse product function for an area of significant complexity or scope while growing talent, developing skills and capabilities to achieve career goals, support project/initiative success and achieve business results
• Generally accountable for a significant product management area that typically has enterprise wide impact or accountability
• Enterprise or functional expert, requiring broad managerial and deep specialized knowledge at the enterprise, business, regulatory and industry levels
• Leads and manages teams handling mass or niche products/segment suites, with moderate to high levels of size/complexity of the product groups/segments
• Provides coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business, executives within area of expertise
• Manages and oversees the overall discipline and strategy for the respective areas while aligning to the enterprise best practices
• Facilitates key strategic discussions and provides thought leadership to executive audience (output may include strategic roadmap and/or deliverables/frameworks/short to long term goals etc.)
• Sets overall team direction and collaborates with others to execute on common goals
• Focus on longer-range planning for functional area
• Oversees product teams and ensures the simple and efficient delivery of products and services to the customer
• Develops and implements products/policies and procedures in such a way that it enhances the end to end customer experience (including training, enhancement and irritant reduction) while achieving business objectives
• Develops and manages the product development calendar for the team and oversees the successful and seamless execution of deliverables
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with sales distribution, key internal stakeholders and/or external partners to ensure that customer needs are considered in strategic decisions and in the development of options, solutions and alternatives
• Directs market research projects and recommends methods for growing existing markets and developing opportunities for customer products and services

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree or product management certificate and/or 10+ years relevant experience
• Previous Product experience required
• Experience in leading strategy strongly recommended
• Advanced knowledge of and ability to conduct product research, product analysis and development, forecasting, pricing, competitive intelligence
• Knowledge of current and emerging competitor and market trends
• Advanced ability to lead, plan, implement and evaluate program/project activities to ensure completion of product initiatives
• Ability to contribute to strategic direction of the product management function and provide advice to senior leadership
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form
• Ability to work collaboratively and build relationships across teams and functions
• Ability to exercise sound judgement in making decisions
• Skill in preparing and managing budgets, P&L and resource allocation
• Knowledge of and/or skill in using analytical software tools, data analysis methods and reporting techniques
• Skill in using computer applications including MS Office

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible working hours
• Professional development opportunities