UL Solutions is a global leader in applied safety science, transforming safety, security, and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers. The Product Manager, Supply Chain Insights is responsible for building products that help customers turn complex supply chain and product data into actionable insights, enabling improved decision-making and innovation.
Responsibilities:
- Use the previously established product vision in concert with deep market understanding to inform the product strategy
- Evaluate market needs against UL’s and competitors’ unique abilities to address them
- Support and contribute to a go-to-market strategy, describing how value will be delivered to the customer/user, how the product is differentiated from the competition, and what the business model should be
- Prioritize product functions and features into a product roadmap
- Monitor a set of product goals, outcomes and corresponding metrics to continually evaluate against
- Evangelize and communicate the product vision, strategy and goals internally across the organization, as well as externally with client users
- Actively model and promote a set of desired behaviors aligned with UL’s Ways of Working
- Take ownership of own career and professional development by documenting and communicating career aspirations and any associated development needs to their manager
- Support career development needs of direct reports, by clearly defining expectations for their current role, actively soliciting their career aspirations and helping close any gaps
- Support an efficient cross-functional matrix structure to enable effective product development lifecycle
- Execute a robust set of processes to power all parts of the product development lifecycle from research/discovery to release management and product support
- Leverage a standard set of product management tools to be used across the product organization at each of the stages of the lifecycle
Requirements:
- Facilitation skills – ability to lead small to medium groups of internal and external stakeholders towards desired outcomes in order to meet business objectives
- Interview skills – ability to conduct discovery sessions with clients. prospects and stakeholders in order to diagnose business opportunities, elicit requirements and conduct other types of research
- Strong communication and presentation (PowerPoint) skills
- Product management tools – product design (e.g. Invision, Zeplin), development task management (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps), documentation and knowledge (e.g. Confluence, SharePoint), collaboration (e.g. Microsoft Teams, Slack), roadmap and portfolio management (e.g. Aha!, Daptiv)
- University Degree (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree) in Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline
- 5 years or more of related discipline experience or demonstrated competency
- Formal training and/or certification in Product Management is a plus
- Working with remote teams is highly preferred
- Project management certification is a plus