Product Manager for a Software Leader

8 hours ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada ROSS Full-time

This is your chance to join a leading organization as Product Manager.

You have:

  • 5+ years in functional Business Intelligence (metrics, KPI, scorecard, etc)
  • 1+ year of experience in Product Management (with a Software Vendor)
  • Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities:

  • Product vision, roadmap and advocacy
  • Product requirements specification
  • Customer interface: Handle problems, solicit needs and priorities, validate requirements, run beta programs, help develop references.
  • Sales support: Provide product expertise on sales calls, help close major deals, and train sales reps
  • Consulting Services Support: Help develop training and methodologies for successful implementations.
  • Development interface: Review designs, test plans and documentation, and prioritize bug fixes.
  • Marketing support: Help Product Marketing with product positioning and messaging, competitive analysis, white papers and sales collateral, demos, webinars, conference presentations and analyst tours.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Functional experience with business methodologies such as Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma, and knowledge of organizational development.
  • Experience with business analysis—using metrics, KPI dashboards, business intelligence and/or OLAP—is desired.
  • A background including finance, product marketing, pre‑sales or post‑sales consulting, or software development is a plus.
  • Strong communication, negotiation, organizational and analytical skills
  • Strong requirements gathering, definition and prioritization skills – ability to understand and represent the customers’ point‑of‑view
  • Ability to drive the success of the product vision through the company and into the market
  • Broad enterprise software industry and technology knowledge, from multi‑tier database application architecture, to competitive analysis, to working with system integration partners, to business methodologies
  • Ability to handle and defuse conflicting constituencies
  • Ability to understand our client’s broader product line and strategy and drive appropriate integration
  • Strong business data analysis skills

Education:

BS required, MBA a plus

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