Product Manager

Aspen Technology is a company driven by its people and their ambition to challenge the status quo. The Product Manager will define strategic direction and lead the product and technology strategy to enhance customer adoption and drive business growth for Aspen Unified.

Responsibilities:

• Align the business strategy for your product line with evolving market needs, engaging with users and stakeholders at all levels in customer organizations to research market needs and create the business case for new products and enhancements
• Shape and champion new initiatives and directions for your product line
• Evaluate and drive strategic product management processes: ensure the right blend of tradeoffs to maximize the product impact in the marketplace (competition, release timing and pricing)
• Analyze commercial impact of product initiatives Support senior staff with research, development, and presentation of new product concepts
• Collaborate with Product Marketing to develop and implement gotomarket plans for product line
• Market Insights: Understand the market and the competitors who play in this market, develop commercial and product insights from product usage data to produce quantitative analyses covering market size, growth rate, and other key success factors
• Services Delivery and Scaling. Internal Services resources and Services from Independent Service Providers and Partners must be designed so that they can scale with appropriate training etc. This will be a critical part of the Aspen Unified business strategy, and the Product Manager will need to play a key role in developing and executing on this strategy
• Positioning: With the Marketing team, develop competitive positioning strategies for current and future market offerings

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of Operations and Supply Chain workflows in Refinery, Olefins and Petrochemical companies
• Handson experience using Scheduling Optimization software like Aspen Petroleum Scheduler is needed and having awareness/ working knowledge of Planning tools will be added advantage
• Understanding of Refinery Modeling Software from modelling and end user perspective
• Experience of taking Simulation /Optimization software to the market would be an advantage
• Exposure to sales, product management, and marketing
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Effective, clear, and concise presentation skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively and maintain excellent colleague and peer relationships
• Flexible to work in different time zones based on organization needs
• A focus on execution
• Minimum B.S. degree in chemical engineering
• MBA, or other advanced management training, desired but not essential