IT Product Manager

Title: Product Manager Location: Marysville, OH Duration: 12 Months
Job Description: Working Conditions

• Must Be Flexible to Work Extended Hours on a Short Notice for Emergency Situations
• Must Be Able to Work Occasional Weekends or Holidays to Support Company Operations
• Occasional Remote Work on a Rotating Basis to Support Company
• Occasional Site-To-Site Travel For Meetings

Daily Tasks:

• Proactively manages schedules to achieve related project deliverables in an agile leadership mindset.
• Facilitates and coordinates regular reviews to reflect, plan, resolve/escalate project concerns and track product milestones.
• Fosters strong relationships with Business and function groups, vital to success.
• Coordinates the project's daily activities amongst the team and function groups.
• Manages schedule changes, delays, and/or recovery efforts within the team and function groups.
• Supports initiatives by collaborating with the team to clarify how decisions may impact schedules & budget and implement solutions to minimize potential risks.
• Maintains accurate product documentation as required by company guidelines.
• Ability to multi-task multiple projects/objectives/deadlines in a highly ambiguous environment
• Reviews and incorporates requirement documentations developed by the BA team into the product plan.
• Communicates product progress, risks, and mitigation strategies to stakeholders.
• Monitors the performance of all resources assigned to a project. Takes appropriate action to motivate and manage.
• Monitors product performance and adherence to quality, security, and regulatory standards.
• Champion best practices in data, cloud, and Client Ops.
• Manages turnover of product to postproduction as a requirement
• Follows all product artifact documentation / reporting requirements.
• Ability to present to varying audiences, conduct in-depth technical analysis, lead, and prioritize multiple projects, work in a team environment as well independently.
• Maintains Project portfolio utilizing Client PM toolset (Clarity), create and update cost plan as needed.
• Vendor Management. Monitors and schedules installation contractors within the product schedule.
• Provides input and guidance into the overall product initiatives.
• Resource trackability (materials ordering, receipt, resource analysis)
• Plays role of Technical Product Owner of Market Quality AI/Client product. This includes the previous existing iteration of AI/Client implementation.

What will this person be working on
In this role as a Product Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in driving the success of our data-driven, cloud-native, and machine learning projects. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless project execution, timely delivery, and exceptional quality. The Product Manager is responsible for developing and maintaining product framework, schedules, budgets, and workflows in support of Market Quality process integration projects. This role will include leading and participating in broad scope requests and understanding/navigating complex Market Quality integration requirements. The designee will also be required to work with little supervision to define, document, present and provide accurate product status to the Program Manager.
Position Success Criteria (Desired) - 'WANTS' = Minimum Educational Qualifications Minimum Educational Qualifications

• Engineering or IS-related bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of Agile leadership experience in leading IT projects, demonstrated ability in planning, execution in all phases of IT projects.
• 5+ years product and/or project management experience desirable
• PMP Certification or Scrum certification desirable.

Minimum Experience

• Excellent project management and process improvement skills
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation and relationship building skills.
• Excellent negotiation, diplomatic and conflict resolution skills
• In-depth knowledge and experience to lead Agile team using JIRA in Sprint planning, Sprint review, retrospective reflection/improvement.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools (Power Point, Excel, Word)

Other Job-Specific Skills

• Experience with PM tool such as Clarity.
• Proven track record in successfully delivering data, cloud, or Client Ops projects.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and Client frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.).
• System architectural awareness and design
• Able to comprehend and understand situations to quickly draw conclusions and solve problems.
• Effectively communicate issues, oral, written, and interpersonal
• Skilled in conducting needs assessment, and able to align IT with business initiatives.
• Strong communication/people skills
• Experience in manufacturing industry is a plus.

Additional Comments : Key Performance Indicators

• Delivery of concise requirements to support quality process needs
• Estimation accuracy
• Project deliverable and schedule benchmarks
• Customer satisfaction

Decisions Expected

• Planning, design, executing project requirements.
• Assist with strategic plans and roadmaps, execution and tracking deliverables.

Communications & Working Relationships Internal Contacts

• IT Management: Provide management with updates/status, receive direction, problem escalation, and obtain approvals and/or feedback for problem resolution tracking/issues related to Market Quality activities.
• Product and Technical Team: Collaborate, coordination of efforts, sharing ideas, communication, status, teaming, solving technical and project issues.
• Enterprise IT: Constructively collaborate, coordination of efforts, sharing ideas, communication, status, teaming, solving technical and project issues. Assist with upholding established policies and standards.
• Business Team: Collaborate, sharing ideas, communication, status, teaming, solving issues. Listen to the Business requests to ensure alignment in deliverables.
• Other Staff: Assist with upholding established policies and standards. Assist with executing established processes/procedures. Meet with designated department/project leaders concerning project innovations and changing to ensure IT understands requirements and installations meet compliance standards.

External Contacts

• External Suppliers: Develop and maintain a clear relationship with company vendors, conduct walk-through evaluations, submit, review, and select vendors as needed for pending projects, tasks, or innovations. Maintain an understanding of changing technology landscapes, applicability for adoption within company.