Manager- Enterprise Product Manager

Public Consulting Group LLC (PCG) is a leading public sector solutions implementation and operations improvement firm that partners with health, education, and human services agencies to improve lives. The Manager- Enterprise Product Manager will lead a team of Product Managers to define and maintain a clear product strategy for enterprise SaaS products, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of Product Managers to define and maintain a clear product strategy for enterprise SaaS products, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and business outcomes
• Empower Product Managers to make strategic recommendations to leadership regarding the evolution, rationalization, consolidation, or retirement of products
• Guide and support Product Managers in evaluating product capabilities, identifying limitations, and considering vendor direction to inform strategic decisions
• Facilitate effective collaboration among product managers within project teams
• Oversee engagement with vendors and the development of robust product roadmaps for enterprise solutions
• Ensure Product Managers accurately represent PCG’s business needs and provide actionable feedback to vendors to influence product roadmaps when possible
• Oversee the documentation of product and feature specifications by Product Managers, ensuring features are clearly communicated from the user’s perspective
• Enable Product Managers to collaborate with product owners in prioritizing the scrum team’s backlog prior to sprint planning
• Enable Product Managers to work closely with business analysts and product owners to enhance business requirements
• Facilitate integration of new work request into the roadmap, actively participating in work triage, and ensure that all approved initiatives align with the established product roadmap
• Assess and determine product readiness for deployment, validating or rejecting products as appropriate
• Collaborate with stakeholders and build strong relationships to understand and address product needs
• Demonstrate product capabilities and support Product Managers in championing these capabilities within the organization
• Enable the team for effective UAT outcomes
• Support efforts to enable effective use of products across the organization
• Communicate with technical teams and end users to identify and prioritize their needs
• Support and guide Product Managers in evaluating the ROI of enterprise products by analyzing usage trends, adoption metrics, and business outcomes
• Responsible for reporting to leadership on product performance, costs, risks, and the value delivered
• Present insights and recommendations to management to support decision making, strategic planning, and the improvement of operational efficiency and quality
• Coaching and developing direct reports
• Setting goals, priorities and workload expectations
• Conducting performance feedback and reviews
• Managing team capacity and utilization
• Ensuring adherence to commitments and delivery quality
• Escalating risks, performance issues, or resourcing concerns

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required. Commensurate experience is an acceptable substitute for area of study
• 10 + years of experience working with products, demonstrating solid track record
• At least 5 Years of direct product management experience handling multiple enterprise-level products
• Strategic planning, execution and management of an operational department focused on understanding the business need
• Ability to manage requirements and documentation across multiple product lines
• Cross functional matrix management in support of strategies, goals and objectives
• Ability to partner with other cross functional managers to ensure the agreed upon requirements are understood by the entire product team and being delivered upon as requested
• Ability to lead a team in achieving shared goals
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills required
• Experience with technical project methodologies (agile, waterfall)
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC)