Sr Product Manager

Job Title: Sr Product Manager

Location: Piscataway NJ - Hybrid East Coast Consultants

Duration: Long Term

Job Description:

Development Responsibilities

• Drive Product Development roadmap and priorities
• Client focused development of product/business requirements to meet client needs
• Plan, manage and support delivery phases leveraging Business/product and Technology stakeholders
• Facilitate workshops and conduct knowledge sharing sessions as needed
• Develop/drive product requirements and support tech development to delivery
• Liaise with Technology teams to define estimates for proposed development work, and drive prioritization and delivery efforts
• Active prioritization of defects to close product gaps
• Inclination towards data-driven decision-making without being paralyzed by incomplete information

Stakeholder Management

• Build effective relationships with key Product, Technology, Operations, Sales and functional leads; while being able to effectively challenge them to move projects forward where needed
• Gather, analyze, and synthesize feedback
• Able to build relationships with and influence colleagues and cross function players to meet deadlines
• Ability to manage stakeholder expectations across multiple parallel work streams
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members and stakeholders

Product Management

• Clear communication and demos to clients on product functionality
• Address any gap/issues as they arise to clients and stakeholders
• Take ownership to drive forward to resolve for identified issues; both by maintaining a catalog of product gaps as well closing client escalated issues
• Understand, improve, or redesign existing processes (where needed) to create efficiency towards a better client experience
• Report new opportunities and changes with go-forward recommendations
• Problem Solving & Analysis
• Ability to break down analyses and issues into their individual components
• Execute creative analyses and provide insight to identify issues and arrive at recommendations
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts
• Ability to keep sight of the overall context and remain centered on core product proposition
• Keeps track of deliverables and proactively follow-ups and provides updates
• Ensure appropriate approvals are in place with compliance and legal
• Maintain Product catalog/documentation (yearly reviews)

Communication

• Confident speaker with ability to provide clear and succinct verbal updates on their work to colleagues and senior executives
• Actively contributes to team meetings with colleagues & with stakeholders from other functions
• PowerPoint skills - able to structure senior management presentations following direction

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of product management experience; Preferred with knowledge of the Retirement Insurance Domain
• Minimum 5 years' experience in Agile delivery methodology
• Demonstrated total ownership behavior and attitude
• Adapt to utilizing MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and business intelligence tools

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, business management, project management, or a related field.