Product Manager - IT (8-13 yrs)
Designation : Product Manager
Location : Chennai
Reporting to : VP Product Development (secondary reporting to VP Software Delivery)
Product Development (responsibility) :
Work with VP products to:
- Identify market opportunities either based on stated customer needs or based on perceived gap in workflow/technology
- Draft and recommend the concept and initial scope of products including outlining product specifications and requirements
- Assess market competitiveness of an existing or new products
- Wherever possible, work closely with a beta customer to refine product ideas
- Work with a product development team, comprising of UI technical staff, to develop product prototypes for review by
management team
- Develop detailed product use cases, post approval from management, and align those to development roadmap
- Determine and recommend product pricing model
- Determine marketing and sales strategies
- Provide information for the management to assess short term and long term product forecast (cost, revenue)
- Work closely with Product delivery organization to deliver the product against its roadmap
- Keep all stakeholders informed as necessary on the progress of Product development
Product Management (responsibility) :
Work with VP products and Development teams to:
- Manage product feedback, including enhancements and reported bugs
- Work with customers to assess their satisfaction and expectations from the product
- Prioritize product roadmap
- Work with Development team to implement product backlog
- Continue to assess market competitiveness of the product against changing competitive landscape as well as market expectations/ needs
Pre-Sales/ Sales Support (Responsibilities)
Manage the pre-sales process as a bid-manager by
- Defining milestones
- Assigning responsibilities for proposal development
- Tracking progress against milestone
- Owning the response document
- Liaise with internal teams to get necessary inputs for the proposal
- Liaise with customers for queries/clarifications
- Where possible be the pseudo-customer for the understanding of requirements by the internal teams
Skills (Must Have/ Desirable)
Must Have
- Product Management
- People Management
- Product Development
- Requirements Analysis
- Commercial awareness and pricing strategies
- Planning
- Competitive Analysis
- Solution definition
- Documentation
- Excellent communication (written and oral)
Desirable
- Understanding of domain/ customer
- Project Management
- Sales Planning
- Marketing
- Financial Planning
- Strategy
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