Position: Product Manager-eCommerce
Exp: 10 - 15 Years
Location: Bangalore
Roles & Responsibilities:
- As a Product Manager, you will be at the forefront of defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for key product features that enhance our planning and operational capabilities of platform offerings to Dover Operating Companies. Be a part of Digital Product portfolio and strategize towards executing Digital Transformational initiatives. Growth Plans: Develop and execute short (annual) and long-term (5-years) growth strategies. Deliverables include product, technology and service roadmap and growth plan summary. Profit and Loss (P&L): Maintain regular analysis of product portfolio P&L to understand peaks and valleys and initiate actions to address any issues. Drive profitability via margin analysis and implementation of cost reduction and pricing initiatives.
- Product Portfolio: Develop and maintain a product portfolio that supports the market and customer penetration objectives of the global sales team. Determine new product needs for global markets, vertical segments, and international markets. Develop Business Plans including Voice-of-the-Customer, cost targets, sales forecast, inventory guidance and financials. Create product specification and design targets with Engineering. Plan product life cycle (introduction-growth-maturity-decline) including enhancements and obsolescence.
- Customer and Market Centricity: Experience analyzing and using data to inform decisions. Maintain market focus by regular contact with customers, sales and marketing. This includes responsibility for conducting distributor and end user training. Work closely with Sales management to provide forums to interact with distributor organizations in identifying growth opportunities and identifying new product development ideas.
- Market Knowledge: Develop a library of market segments and applications and identify what products are required to be successful in these areas. Determine market size (revenue, units), growth and opportunity for each with Market Managers where applicable. Identify share and position in the market and develop plans to secure or grow position. Perform competitor analysis including SWOT, pricing, features and product breadth comparison. Identify market drivers and customer buying behaviors.
- Prepare business requirements and charter documents in collaboration with Operating Companies and Engineering Squads in identifying use cases for new features. Hands on product lead developer expertise in designing solutions running on hybrid cloud environments. Drive communication and consistently report accurate product scenarios for stakeholders. Drive product and portfolio planning activities in Cloud & Edge based deployment by leveraging continuous improvement practices and adopting new technology stack.
Must Have Skills:
- Expert product instincts and an ability to balance user and business impact. Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive business documents covering functional and non-functional requirements. Effectively communicate the product vision, roadmap, and feature updates to cross-functional stakeholders including engineering, sales, and executive leadership. Drive the successful delivery of new product features, including managing the launch process, collecting customer feedback, and driving ongoing improvements.
- Bachelor's/Master's degree equivalent with strong knowledge on product management function. 11+ years working Experience in designing strategies; Ability to troubleshoot and think out of the box. Able to break down requirements and collaborate with cross functional teams in planning and defining product strategy. Work with developers to refine architecture and closely monitor development milestones. Collaborate with scrum team to identify functional, system and end to end integration of products leading to deployment strategies.
- Ability to handle chaos, ambiguity, and complexity in a detailed, organized way. Comfort working in fast-paced and dynamic environment. Ability to travel up to 30% of time (domestic and international) Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Strong Understanding of fundamental concepts in software product markets and employing good design and architectures. Experience with Agile programming techniques such as test-driven development. Design applications to optimize for performance and usability. Document market, product and business requirements that enables product engineering teams to deliver software at enterprise scale.
