Senior Product Manager

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Senior Product Manager

POSITION PURPOSE:

Product Managers ensure that products are fulfilling their primary purpose to enable users to perform tasks that create value for the company. Product managers have two broad areas of responsibility:

• Setting strategic vision for the product to ensure the customer and their needs are at the center; and ensuring team priorities are supporting business outcomes for customer, product, technical and enabling teams. This requires continual alignment of the product strategy and objectives with customer, product, technical, and enabling teams
• Managing the product backlog, which prioritizes the work of the assigned squads, to achieve the vision and aligned strategy.
  
  

To successfully manage these areas of responsibility, product managers must have a deep understanding of the product domain, related technology, and architecture.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Product Management

• Accountable for product success from conception to decommissioning.
• Identify domain needs and develop/validate product concepts.
• Build a business case for the product.
• Oversee product build and launch; ensure availability, stability, and compliance.
• Collaborate with teams: product development, marketing, finance, legal, manufacturing, operations, and sales.
• Drive agile best practices for improved delivery and continuous planning (e.g., sprint planning).
• Co-create user stories aligned with product backlog prioritization.
• Conduct market opportunity identification, competitive analysis, sales enablement, and monitor domain performance.
  
  

Stakeholder Engagement

• Identify key stakeholder groups.
• Use discretion to balance strong opinions and deliver value.
• Build trust by understanding and meeting stakeholder needs.
  
  

Product Strategy

• Provide strategic leadership with end-to-end ownership of products.
• Plan and optimize capabilities to achieve business outcomes efficiently.
• Require strong strategic planning, decision-making, and influencing skills.
  
  

Product Discovery & Delivery

• Create comprehensive product roadmaps to clarify user needs and requirements.
• Track and report progress against 90-day outcomes and overall product health.
• Plan and manage product delivery while streamlining the backlog.
• Monitor user feedback and metrics to enhance user experience and business value.
• Leverage Design Thinking methodology for usability, feasibility, business fit, and value testing.
  
  

People & Collaboration

• Proactively communicate and collaborate with product users and stakeholders.
• Foster effective cross-functional collaboration for valuable product delivery.
• Maintain strong relationships with colleagues in product management and engineering.
• Mentor junior product managers to enhance product management and agile practices.
  
  

WHO YOU ARE:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar or minimum 4 years equivalent practical experience in addition to:
• 5 or more years of experience as a product manager
• 2 or more years of experience with Agile development and DevOps
• 5 or More years of Experience in SAP MM as a techno-Functional consultant
• 5 or more years of experience in SAP Ariba with SAP CIG Integration
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle and software development
  
  

Preferred

• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence initiatives that involve cross-functional teams from initiation to delivery
• Experience with Design Thinking, user-centered design & user analysis
• Ability to establish and manage initiatives against a set of key metrics and goals
• Strong analytical, management and organizational skills
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities: must effectively communicate with technical and non-technical people
• Experience in building product vision, product roadmap, product strategy, and competitive analysis
• Proven experience in designing, developing, delivering or leading digital solutions in a complex global environment
• Strong strategic planning and decision-making skills with ability to evolve solution strategy based on research, data and industry trends
• Ability to measure and effectively communicate the business value of proposals and deliverables
  
  

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YOUR APPLICATION

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Location: India : Maharashtra : Thane

Division: Enabling Functions

Reference Code: 847082

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