Manager Product Planning

BCD Travel is hiring a Manager Product Planning to lead product planning for assigned solutions, including global roadmaps and delivery. The role develops go-to-market approaches, evaluates market opportunities and product performance, and works with internal and external stakeholders and vendors to grow commercial opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor your product development project to ensure its on-scope and on-schedule
• Support preparation of market introduction and hand-over to product delivery teams
• Make sure your assigned products have sound business plans, including an analysis of product profitability, sales success, and pricing strategy
• Identify current market needs and possible future gaps in our offering and conduct feasibility studies to bring ideas forward
• Conduct a competitive analysis for all your assigned products to show how we compare on the market
• Build relationships with our vendors; listen to their thoughts and concerns and foster ways to work together

Requirements:

• Prior experience in business travel or travel management
• Excellent knowledge of GDS Sabre and GDS Amadeus
• Competency with Microsoft Office Products, and collaborative software used for projects with remote team members and stakeholders
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• You'll interact with a variety of partners and will need a high level of comfort in communicating with professionals of different backgrounds
• Excellent time-management and project-management skills: you'll be constantly challenged to balance multiple initiatives, projects and perspective
• Capable of managing and working in a virtual and multinational team environment