The Smart Cube - Assistant Product Manager

About us :

In todays Intelligence Age, the worlds best businesses have no choice but to continuously strive to become smarter.

Our clients hold the key to this and are today harnessing the power of The Smart Cubes solutions to unlock new innovation and profit streams.

The strength of our solutions is born of a powerful blend of people, tools and technology.

A rare breed

Back in 2003, the world was a very different place - the consumer internet was less than 10 years old and the smartphone was still a novelty.

The Smart Cube was created as a new kind of business, one that would make sense of the reams of data being generated.

Since then its been quite a journey.

A journey that has seen us change the way organizations think about intelligence. A journey that has put our industry on the map. A journey that is only getting started.

Our future focus

We do not exist to help our clients simply fire-fight today. We help them to look ahead and stay ahead. Our vision is to be the catalyst for organizational intelligence for the worlds leading firms.

Solutions team

- You will be a part of the Solutions Team that owns and manages The Smart Cubes global portfolio of solutions and propositions for the Procurement, Commercial/Sales/Marketing functions within Lifesciences, Consumer Goods, Industrials and Retail sectors, as well as those for the Financial Services sector. Most of our solutions are a combination of services and embedded products, with the aim of delivering custom intelligence to businesses in a scalable manner.

- In this role, you will work as the Product Manager for our Smart Risk embedded product as well as the associated assets by connecting the technical and business worlds. You will report directly into the Solution Owner for our Supplier Risk Intelligence solution.

Roles and responsibilities

- The Product Manager is responsible for ensuring that the development of our embedded product and associated assets is executed in a timely and effective manner as per the roadmap created by the Solution Owner. This includes:

- Developing the vision, feature roadmap and evolution plan for Smart Risk and associated assets under the guidance of the Solution Owner

- Gathering and maintaining a wish list through active solicitation of ideas and requirements from sales team, client delivery teams and other senior stakeholders in the business

- Converting the wish list into tech features by brainstorming with the technology/engineering team to evaluate feasibility and relevance of proposed features

- Maintaining a prioritized roadmap of features for Smart Risk and for assets based on inputs from cross-functional stakeholders

- Managing stakeholder (client delivery teams, sales team, Executive team) expectations in terms of what is possible at present vs what will be available in the future through regular communication and engagement sessions

- Working with the business analyst (BA) to convert features into requirements and user stories for the technical team

- Reviewing the requirements and user stories drafted by the BA

- Working with the project manager (from engineering) and the BA to allocate stories to sprints, based on the agreed roadmap

- Addressing queries from the engineering team during active sprints

- Working with the design team to finalise the UI and ensuring that the development team is aligned through storytelling sessions

- Conducting user acceptance testing (post QA and before release) and providing sign-off for release

- Liaising with the project manager to ensure features and assets are released in time keeping in mind the roadmap and client commitments

- Acting as a business partner between engineering and the client delivery teams to facilitate delivery of the risk solution based on the feature stack available

- Includes managing expectations of both parties and ensuring each party is clear on their respective roles

- Creating non-technical documents and presentations to support sales and other business readers (including clients/prospects)

- Conducting walkthrough sessions with sales team and prospective clients, where needed

- Promptly addressing queries from the sales team

Ideal Candidate:

- Experience in product management and agile methodologies essential

- Knowledge of the procurement function and/or third party risk management preferred

- Superior problem solving abilities and strong analytical thinking

- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills

- Proven ability to build relationships, collaborate, and influence all levels within an organisation

- Ability to structure and manage workstreams for self and small groups

- Mature individual with a professional work ethic, and focus on delivering to timelines

Strategic thinker who can plan 2-3 steps ahead and surface hidden risks 2-3 levels deep

- Desire to work in a fast paced, hands-on work environment

- Motivated, fast thinking, dynamic person with strong business acumen