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CPO is responsible for managing a set of products or product lines over the life of the product from ideation through development, launch sale, and finally discontinuance. They interface between the market and the product team during development representing the voice of the customer. VP Product Management oversees all activities of the staff, builds reliability-product capabilities, manages the departmental operating budget, and supports any budget development for site/software investment projects. VP Product Management creates and maintains positive relationships with the internal and external stakeholders of the business in order to establish a consumer-focused culture.

Job Responsibilities : -

- Ideation : The Product Manager solicits ideas for new products from others and contributes ideas for new products. He/she collects information on new product ideas, analyzes new product ideas, and helps evaluate new product ideas.

- Market Analysis: The Product Manager maintains constant surveillance and awareness of the market and has been able to effectively identify customer needs and trends

- Competitive Analysis: The Product Manager maintains awareness of competitive products, potential competitive products, competitors, and competitor capabilities. He/she actively collects and analyzes data on competitors and helps to organize this data into meaningful information. He/she organizes or effectively participates in competitive intelligence efforts. The Product Manager effectively uses competitive information in the development of a new product. He/she is able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of proposed products relative to the competition, can anticipate competitive responses, and can consider competitive actions in the development of sales projections.

- Requirements Development: The Product Manager works with the team to develop a comprehensive set of requirements that address all defined customer needs and that are complete. Product requirements are effectively communicated to team members to assure a complete and consistent understanding of the requirements. Product requirements are managed to minimize changes once development is underway. Any changes in products requirements are carefully evaluated to minimize disruption to the development team and plan.

- Enhance Value Proposition: The Product Manager balances out requirements with cost to maximize the value proposition to the customer. He/she is familiar with and uses techniques such as conjoint analysis or other value assessment techniques to make decisions to maximize product value. - Product Positioning & Strategy : The Product Manager does a good job of integrating overall company strategy, product line plans and strategy, competitive analysis, and customer needs into an effective product strategy and position in the marketplace.

- Product Line Roadmaps: The Product Manager contributes to, develops, and maintains product roadmaps and other representations of the product line plan and strategy. Roadmaps and related documents are up to date.

- Product Forecasting: The Product Manager uses a reasoned approach to develop to develop forecasts of customer demand and maintain forecasts as customer demand changes. These forecasts are communicated with others in the organization that need this information. The Product Manager analyzes variances between forecasted and actual product demand to understand what happened and to refine his/her forecasting approach.

- Analyze and Rationalize Product Portfolio: The Product Manager regularly conducts a critical review of his/her product line or product portfolio to identify needed actions to discontinue poor performing products, overlapping products, or products that require repositioning or re-launching.

- Coordinate & Manage Product Launch: The Product Manager effectively coordinates and manages the launch of a new product.

- Monitor Product Results: The Product Manager monitors product performance by tracking key performance indicators including revenue, cost savings, margin, market share, customer feedback and other indicators identified.

- Management Reporting: The Product Manager provides regular and ongoing reporting for management-level operational reviews.

- Manage Product Lifecycle: Based on product performance, the Product Manager determines when actions are needed to upgrade, improve, revise or reposition products, or when actions are needed to revise product promotional programs and product pricing. He/she then develops appropriate plans, marshals resources, and executes these product changes, revised promotional plans, and pricing changes. He/she also determines when actions are needed to discontinue existing products and then develops appropriate plans to discontinue the product and migrate customers to a new product.

Required Qualification & Skills :

- Bachelors or Masters degrees in either Computer Science or other disciplines of engineering

- 15+ years of experience in software product management

- Experience in customer Interaction

- Excellent problem solving, excellent interpersonal skills and analytical skills with exquisite attention to detail, ability to think strategically and logically

- Proficient in software development methodologies such as iterative, incremental and agile

- Demonstrated creativity and initiative to improve product

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills Desired Qualification & skills :

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