Product Manager- Lisle, IL/Watertown, WI

GLORY is a company focused on retail product management, seeking a Retail Product Manager to align their North American team for successful product launches and market execution. The role involves ensuring product alignment with market needs, managing product lifecycles, and driving go-to-market strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Research market needs and identify product opportunities
• Define product strategy aligned with company goals
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert for all product categories and North America requirements
• Provide analysis, quality inputs, and business process requirements
• Communicate risks, issues, and market insights to global stakeholders
• Assess competitive offerings to guide differentiation and sales strategy
• Develop product positioning, value propositions, and business cases
• Manage product roadmaps, enhancements, defects, and launch plans
• Lead cross‑functional teams through product development and launch
• Communicate the economic justification for product changes and new releases
• Establish pricing, packaging, and product positioning
• Lead sales enablement and develop supporting tools and materials
• Partner with marketing on collateral and customer‑facing content
• Assist sales with opportunity qualification, RFPs, and customer requirements
• Deliver product demos and represent the company at industry events
• Oversee full product lifecycle from concept through end‑of‑life
• Drive go‑to‑market execution and continuous improvement
• Monitor product performance and conduct win/loss and SWOT analyses
• Improve product-related processes and lead strategic initiatives
• Manage project plans, timelines, teams, resources, and budgets
• Collaborate with stakeholders across all organizational levels

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of progressive experience in Product Management, Technical Solution Support, Software Product Development, Product Ownership, and/or Program Management
• Excellent collaborative and problem-solving skills, ability to create and implement innovative solutions to problems
• Experience with IoT products and SaaS solutions
• Understanding of Agile development principles
• Must possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills and proficiency in time management to handle deadline pressures and multiple assignment and clients simultaneously
• Self-disciplined, self-starter, high motivated, strong ability to develop effective teams and be a significant contributing member through hands-on execution
• Ability to develop and communicate conceptual ideas including design rationale and business cases to all levels of the organization, from Board / C-Level to new first-job employees
• Ability to assess a situation with multiple viewpoints, identify priorities, create a plan, and execute on the plan which delivers on company objectives
• Must be process-focused. Must be able to take accountability for projects and issues and drive to completion or resolution (through direct ownership or cross-functional collaboration as appropriate)
• Knowledge of Pragmatic Institute principles
• Experience working with global teams and/or 3rd party solution or delivery partners
• Experience in Financial and Retail industries
• Demonstrated history in successfully bringing products to market