Manager, Product Management

Sphera is a global provider of enterprise software and services for environmental, health, safety, and sustainability management. The Manager, Product Management role translates business needs into technical requirements, develops product solutions, coordinates with cross-functional teams, and supports customer presentations, training, and testing.

Responsibilities:

• Work with key project stakeholders and the customer to understand the overall business vision for a project and translate that into actionable objectives
• Provide a communication conduit between the business and technical community by interpreting and translating business needs into technical requirements
• Comprehend and document requirements from multiple stakeholders and conceptualize solutions
• Develop deep understanding of current systems and processes and analyze impact of changes as new solutions are introduced to the environment
• Collaborate directly with business owners, sales, QA, and development teams
• Collaborate with other BSAs to manage inter-dependencies across the product suite
• Assist in developing and validating test plans
• Develop and provide product presentations and/or training to existing customer, and potential customers
• Have a working knowledge of Sphera’s HMMS Suite application
• Be effective in problem solving
• Coordinate work with software developers, QA and project teams in drafting User Stories and related documentation
• Other duties as assigned
• Travel may be required

Requirements:

• U.S. Citizen
• Ability to verify U.S. employment eligibility using Form I-9
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance and Common Access Card
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a technology related field. Equivalent work experience may be substituted for education
• Minimum 10+ years' experience in a software organization, preferably in software development
• Ability pass a drug test
• Six-month trial/probationary period may be required
• Demonstrated leadership/supervisory experience
• Extensive user interface design experience
• Advanced knowledge of MS Microsoft Office applications
• Ability to assess product opportunities through market research and client feedback to develop market sizing, pricing, costing, and ROI analysis
• Negotiation skills
• Data analysis skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Presentation skills to present to and persuade large and diverse audiences
• Ability to envision, document and clearly communicate end-to-end solutions
• Skilled in creating process flows and swim lane diagrams in Visio
• Ability to forge relationships with various business and technical team members and managers
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability to deliver planned results
• Extremely detail-oriented
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast paced, rapidly changing environment
• Aptitude to understand business impact and business value of technical solutions
• Strong customer service orientation
• Ability to learn client specific processes, terminology, systems, and unique requirements by various business groups
• Sense of urgency due to cross functional and fast-moving nature of operations, Big picture thinking, prioritization (comfortable with multi-tasking)
• Ability to work independently as well as cross-functionally, with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Travel may be required
• Prefer experience in working with tools and methodologies specific to the product line(s) assigned
• Prefer experience in managing products involving large scale data-driven applications
• Prefer experience in data analysis
• Experience with project development methodology (i.e.. Agile, Waterfall, Extreme) preferred
• Experience working with Department of Defense is a plus
• Knowledge of Environmental and/or Logistics Processes is a plus