Product Manager
EASTWIND -
New Cairo, CairoPosted 6 years ago47Applicants for1 open position
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Job Description
The Product Manager position is vital to delivering on company’s and client solutions requirements throughout the full life-cycle management of products/offerings.
This position requires interfacing primarily with Sales and Business Development team in the Ideation and Definition phase, assuming ownership of the offering past the Definition phase, and helping the product management thereafter by collaborating across Operations (Contracts, Finance, etc..), Engineering/Development Services and Service Delivery. The successful candidate will bring proven agile product management expertise in the security domain.
Responsibilities
- Work with business development to assess and document the competitive landscape, while analyzing customer capability gaps to identify emerging needs. Periodically refresh the competitive landscape and calibrate products positioning to grow market share
- Manage and maintain a portfolio of products attuned to client needs, each with a business case.
- Lead the Business Case formulation and enhancement, through stage gate reviews in alignment with business and strategic plans.
- Work with Finance to maximize product and service revenue as well as profitability; and define performance KPI/metrics.
- Chart the life-cycle roadmap of each product beyond definition-phase: through launch, sustenance and sunset. Document product offering through value proposition evaluation, use cases, and business case analysis.
- Work with Marketing to develop sales and training collateral, both internal and customer-facing
- Collaborate with Business Development, Experience Design Teams, and clients to develop the use cases and evolve a distinct value proposition, and engage with them in agile product development while ensuring proper stage gate reviews. Work with Development, Engineering, and other internal departments to ensure timely release
- Coordinate with development, Engineering, Service Delivery and Sales teams to ensure a successful launch. Document the product features during releases in consideration of trade-offs; further, refine product through testing and beta phases.
- Modularly productize offering to allow the creation of customizable and re-usable components.
- Work with Business Development and Sales to evolve a Go-To-Market strategy that maximizes market share
- Act as second-line pre-sales support of key, complex bids
Job Requirements
Relevant experience:
- At least 5 years’ experience in a Product Manager role, in a technology domain, with demonstrated experience in both business and Technical capacity.
- Proven track record of managing a successful product from ideation to release and continual improvement.
- Products Portfolio management is a plus.
- Proven experience in business analysis and business case development.
- A demonstrated experience in Agile Development practices in a Product Manager role.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to maintain and influence internal and customer working relationships at all levels
- Excellent writing and verbal communication skills required, along with the ability to make effective presentations across diverse audiences
- Experience in complex solutions sales and security domains are a plus.
