Program & Portfolio Management - Product Manager

Overview

Program & Portfolio Management - Product Manager

PURPOSE: Develops and implements strategy for the company s product line and is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements and defining the product vision. Working with Product Owners, IT, and other stakeholders to prioritize product and customer requirements against the business strategy, product roadmap, and value drivers. Partners closely with engineering to ensure we deliver winning products that meet Care First and member needs.

Oversees the product roadmap development process ensuring it includes the UX, design teams, operations managers, engineering managers, and finance teams. Confirms project deadlines with support from the product owners and delivery team. Ensures the product development stages meet internal and external stakeholders  expectations. Provides timely and accurate communication of updates to the product s overall deployment. Reports on product performance using latent and predictive data to confirm that product performance meets high-reliability standards.

Ensuring overall product success.

• Leads the entire product management life cycle - Translates business strategy as reflected in downstream product processes. Ensures all stakeholders  features, requirements, and acceptance criteria support delivery and testing of new products and features. May also manage beta programs, manage the development of product marketing materials and technical documentation. Ensure new products align with and support existing products where applicable.
• Leverages market research inputs into the product roadmap to confirm market demand. Gathers feedback from customers and analyzes the product landscape, updates existing products and identifies new technologies. Ensures Product Owners  backlogs incorporate this data in their prioritization processes.
• Defines the product roadmap showing the value derived at each delivery of functionality milestones. These milestones do not dictate architecture; they define features or capabilities, normally documented through business strategy and translation of that strategy into workflows, user stories, or required features.
• Responsible for and/or assists with go-to-market strategy and launches for new products; facilitates product release with product owners, engineering, sales, supply chain, etc.; educates internal and external stakeholders. Develops and delivers product presentations.
• Facilitates marketing and stakeholder communications for all products including clear ability to translate technical solutions into value proposition.
• Works with finance, where applicable, to define revenue drivers and pricing to ensure competitiveness in the market as well as financial profitability in the marketplace.
• Identifies and documents market information including competitive analysis, threats, trends and information that would be helpful to management, sales and marketing.
• Expertise in working in web portals, mobile apps and back end (web services, DB implementation), cloud migration. Leading strategic and innovation idea creation and implementation. Mastery in holistic product management lifecycle from discovery to post-implementation analytics. Expertise in Google Analytics tool and understanding implementation to analytics. Managing demanding stakeholders in a complex work environment.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education Level: Bachelor s Degree
• Education Details: Product Management, Engineering, Information Technology or related field
• Experience: 10 years’ experience product management and/or product owner experience
• In Lieu of Education
  In lieu of a Bachelor s degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
• Preferred Qualifications
  Knowledge,
  
  Skills and Abilities
  
  (KSAs)
• Proficient in project planning and life cycle development., Expert
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal., Expert
• Proficient in Agile methodologies, principles, and procedures., Expert
• Ability to use Product KPIs and business metrics to optimize the product., Expert
• Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems., Expert
• Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines., Expert

Certified Product Manager (CPM)-AIPMM Upon Hire Pref
Certified Product Marketing Manager (CPMM)-AIPMM Upon Hire Pref

EEO:
“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”