Position Summary:
The Product Manager works as part of team responsible for product management across the full product life cycle and often engages with sales and technical teams to ensure new products and features are delivered with the highest quality and in accordance with customer needs.
Primary Accountabilities:
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Develop complex business cases, product line pro-forma, or other decision analysis projects, including data collection and preliminary analysis; knowledgeable about and proficient with common techniques and frameworks for asking critical questions and conducting analysis.
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Independently manage one or more simultaneous product initiatives through the full product life cycle (from concept to launch) of low to moderate complexity; manage high complexity product initiatives with direct supervision.
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Independently conduct research on competition, users, and customers to inform product strategy, including win-loss analysis, profitability analysis, and feasibility; actively contribute to creation of competitive strategy for a major product line.
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Collaborate with go-to-market teams (marketing, sales, services, solution architects) to successfully launch new product initiatives of moderate complexity with independence, and high complexity with supervision; support sales efforts with product-level expertise.
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Be the owner of a product(s) roadmap; develop a point of view based on a variety of inputs and desired outcomes; typically plans at least two sprints ahead.
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Able to use an outcome-based prioritization framework but needs support in setting nuanced OKRs and mapping initiatives against them.
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Understand technical architecture at a high level to identify impacted technical components.
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Communicate with the team, product leadership and key stakeholders frequently and effectively communicate product initiatives and priorities.
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Regularly sought out by sales for their product expertise and knowledge of customer needs.
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Develop ability to take a variety of diverse inputs and synthesize them into a compelling product story.
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Comfortably create and present information to non-executive level audiences.
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Provide cross functional influence within specific domain(s) of expertise; build productive internal and external working relationships; interact internally with functional peer group and occasionally, with those outside of functional group.
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Talk to customers using their area of product, always looking for deeper insight; understand the problems they want solved and use this insight to effectively create the best possible value in their product area.
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Conducts research, helping to define the problems we should be seeking to understand and to validate decision-making.
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Consistently and reliably own the problem through to the solution within and across teams, peers, and partners.
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Maintain prioritized backlog; develop high quality requirements and write user stories for complex features with little-no errors.
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Able to break down work into smallest possible user story with little guidance.
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Actively participate in Agile ceremonies; coordinate analytics, UX, design, business readiness activities (inputs & dependencies).
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Ensure product quality is high; contribute to QA testing of product features.
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Identify risks and issues and proactively find solutions to any obstacles.
Additional Responsibilities:
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Performs other duties as assigned
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Complies with all policies and standards
Required Qualifications:
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Bachelors Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, business, technology or related area required
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4-6 years 3-5 years of related work experience; or any equivalent combination of experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to complete the major responsibilities/essential functions of the position required
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Proficient with Google Suite and Microsoft Office Suite
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Product Owner Certification required
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the major job responsibilities (essential functions) of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the major job responsibilities. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job.
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Use Hands to Handle Objects - Regularly
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Reach with Hands or Arms - Regularly
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Talk or Hear and Read Instructions - Regularly
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Stand, Kneel, or Stoop and Lift 20 Pounds - Occasionally
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View Items at a Close Range - Regularly
Rarely: Job requires this activity up to 25% of the time
Occasionally: Job requires this activity between 25% - 50% of the time
Frequently: Job requires this activity between 50% - 75% of the time
Constantly: Job requires this activity more than 75% of the time
Individual Competencies
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Collaboration: Creates internal alliances outside the immediate team or department.
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Communication: Contributes to strategy for their team.
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Influence: Function.
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Problem Solving: Completes routine and repetitive tasks where tasks are straightforward.
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Effective Execution: Demonstrates support for innovation and organizational changes needed to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
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Curious: Asseses circumstances using experience and a variety of information gathered.
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Urgency: Expertise in their discipline and understands these concepts in other disciplines.
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Innovative: Arrives at decision using analytical thought.
As an Inmar Associate, you:
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Put clients first and consistently display a positive attitude and behaviors that demonstrate an awareness and willingness to listen and respond to clients in order to meet their short-term and long-term needs, requirements and exceed their expectations.
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Treat clients and teammates with courtesy, consideration and tact; you also have the ability to perceive the needs of internal and external clients and communicate effectively with the objective of delighting and retaining the client.
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Build collaborative relationships and work cooperatively with others, inside and outside the organization, to accomplish objectives, develop and maintain mutually beneficial partnerships, leverage information and achieve results.
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Set and attain achievable, yet aggressive, goals with a sense of urgency and accountability.
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Understand that results are important and focus on turning mission into action to achieve results following the principles of Flawless Execution while consistently complying with quality, service and productivity standards to meet deadlines and exceed expectations by giving our clients the best possible outcome.
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Support a safe work environment by following safety rules and regulations and reporting all safety hazards.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets.
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What We Do
We reimagine everyday business challenges through advanced analytics, technology-enabled and market-driven solutions built to solve some of industries’ biggest obstacles to growth. Inmar Intelligence’s customer-centric approach is evident through our success helping companies dynamically engage audiences, build brand loyalty, create efficiencies and drive profitable growth.
We help leading Fortune 500 companies and emerging brands stay relevant and propel growth while providing their consumers with personalized and precision-driven tools to save money, improve health and safety, and more conveniently go about their lives.
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