IT Product Manager

SUMMARY:
The Product Manager is a senior position in the Product Management job family, operating at a country level. They are required to own and drive the MEA/regional product strategy depending on the requirements of the business and where applicable align to a Global Product Strategy.

POSITION INFO:

PRIMARY PURPOSE

The primary responsibility of the Product Manager is to use their market, client, industry and technology focus to provide context to the strategy for new/existing products/offers within Practice portfolio. The objective is to ensure that the portfolio remains relevant, sustainable, competitive and compelling within the markets/industries that they serve.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5 to 10 years experience (within the IT sector)
• Relevant Bachelors degree
• Extensive systems integration experience

 KEY OUTPUTS:

• Own and drive product strategy
• Define market opportunities
• New product or enhancement concept initiation
• Contribute to product concept feasibility investigation
• Product Development Process
• Work closely with the MEA Service Development & Enablement, as part of a cross functional Agile team
• Influence regional resource planning, sales target coverage and hiring to ensure sufficient support in the sales and delivery process
• Own the on-boarding and communication of product updates
• Service and Consulting Service product management and development team where the product is a global offering
• Localize any global product collateral (value proposition slide decks, order forms and contracts, welcome pack, sales cheat sheet, proposal templates etc.), with regional marketing support.
• Take responsibility for ensuring a robust the Quote-to-Cash proves is in place by identifying the gaps and enhancements required are identified and closed during the Product Development Process
• Product lifecycle management and monitoring
• Client Focus and Sales Performance
• Early identification of Trial and Pilot clients to ensure we have the required momentum to launch the offering sustainably
• Mentor territory sales and solution architect teams to ensure enablement and achievement of best practice sales approaches
• Build and manage the pipeline of sales opportunities for the product
• Providing subject matter expertise in Client engagements and content for RFPs/RFIs
• Engage with Technology Partners
• Ensure employee enablement
• Monitor product performance
• Contribute to product pricing strategies

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Strong service orientation and passion for exceeding expectations
• Excellent written and verbal communication 
• Reliable and able to produce high quality of work
• Display excellent attention to detail and the ability to produce high quality of work 
• Ability to think creatively 
• Demnstrate an appropriate degree of personal and business integrity 
• Ability to establish and maintain good relationships with all stakeholders and team 
• Ability to work with financial data 
• Strong attitude, passion, knowlege and ambition
• Good knowledge of products  

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