Product Manager

Client Domain: Well-established client in Food and Beverages, FMCG

Must Have Skills:

• Product Ownership
• Product Planning and Road mapping

Good to Have Skills:

• SAFe

Product Managers are strategic leaders responsible for driving the development, launch, and ongoing support of a company s products. They focus on long-term vision, market trends, and identifying new opportunities. Work close with Product Owner to define specific incremental improvements to be manages in different squads.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze market trends, monitor competitors, and identify opportunities in organizational processes.
• Supporting product sales or other product goals established.
• Set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate it effectively to stakeholders, the team, and the rest of the unit.
• End to end team output strategy from inception to production.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure digital vision and products alignment with value streams.
• Accountable for product specific KPIs once solution enters production and communicate regular tracking to stakeholders.
• Utilize market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their team.
• Maintain a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team.
• Works closely with CPO to establish each product s business value and support messaging, communication, and customer outreach as necessary.
• Integrates usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction and ensure customer driven design.

Previous Experience:

• 8 + years of PO experience, overall experience 18 years or less
• 2 to 3 years of experience in Product Manager capacity

Leadership:

• Effectively manages own time and provides visibility into ongoing work.
• Recognizes when teammates encounter difficulties in their tasks and readily offers support.
• Demonstrates initiative by acting without constant direction from others.

Agile:

• Applies values of quality, response to change, customer centricity in the way of working.
• Works iteratively and incrementally as standard. Understands the differences between agile and traditional practices and can select the best fit for context.

Design:

• Knows good design practices (e.g., design patterns, known structures, industry solutions) that are applicable to their role.
• Identifies opportunities or issues to apply best practices.

Optimization:

• Designs solutions with performance in mind.
• Performs proof of concept on potential solutions to assess their impact.
• Identifies performance issues in day-to-day operations and alerts the team.
• Analyzes technologies or methods that have the potential to complement, improve, or optimize the solution.
• Offers optimization solutions that positively impact metrics (e.g., turnaround or processing time, resource consumption).

Technical Tutoring:

• Has the necessary knowledge to solve many of the technical impediments the development team encounters.
• Knows and suggests good practices, novel technologies, and methodologies with the potential to add value to the project.
• Promotes discussions on the best ways to approach a solution.
• Provides ongoing on-the-job coaching to junior team members.